Chosen's Exports
More than 90% of Chosen's exterior commerce was with Japan and Manchukuo. In 1939, Chosen was importing $300,000,000 worth of goods and exporting $250,000,000 worth of goods, a deficit which continued for years.
The principal articles for export were:
- Rice
- Silk
- Soybeans
- Wolfram (Tungsten)
- Graphite
- Gold
- Chemical products
The principal imports were:
- Petroleum
- Metallic products
- Machinery and Trucks
- Sugar
- Rye
- Maize
More than 16,000,000 tonnes of merchant vessels entered the province in 1936 via Fusan, the fourth largest port in the Japanese Empire.
Japanese industry and commerce became focused on export and foreign sales, and the local markets unsatisfied because of low demand.
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