JECURITY 13 Junk 1966 ENGLISH ORIGINAL: ENGLISH/FRENCH/ RUSSIAN/SPANISH
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UNITED NATIONS Disk. GENERAL S/778Il./Add.5 JECURITY 13 Junk 1966 ENGLISH ORIGINAL: ENGLISH/FRENCH/ RUSSIAN/SPANISH _. REPORT BY THE SECRETARY-GENERALIN PURSUANCEOF RESOLUTION 232 (1966) ADOPTED BY THE SECURITY COUNCIL AT ITS 134OTHMEETING ON 16 DECmER 1966 Addendum Note: The present addendum covers the information received byhe Secretary-General since the issuance of the last addendum (S/778l/Add.4) in response to the notes he had addressed to States Members of the United Nations or of the specialized agencies pursuant to resolution 232 (1966). On 11 March 1968, the Secretary-General addressed a further note to States Members of the United Nations or of the specialized agencies in connexion with the provisions of resolution 232 (1966) of 16 December ,1966. The text of this note is reproduced in annex A. The relevant substantive portions of replies to this note and to his earlier notes of 17 December 1966 and 13 January 1967 are reproduced in annex B. This addendum also contains an analysis of the statistical data furnished by States in accordance with resolution 232 (1966) and in response to the Secretary-General*s,notes of l-7 December 1966 and 13 January 1967. Annex C presents, in tabular form, the statistical material mentioned above. 68-13676 $ X /778 L/Add. 5 English Page 2 Trade of Southern Rhodesia The data made available to the Secretary-General by the reporting ;1 countries (see annex 3) show that the total imports into these countries from I Southern Rhodesia amounted to about $U&O million ih 1967 (compared with $330 million in the year 1965). In evaluating this figure in relation to ‘I resolution 232 (Lg66), it may be noted that the implementation of the resolution necessarily took different forms in different countries, that shipments were already en route in December 1966 and that goods in bond in some countries appear in the statistics Long after their arrival in the importing countries, The countries accounting for the greater part of the imports of $40 million were the Federal Republic of Germany ($16.0 million), United States ($6.5 million), Switzerland ($3.9 million), Portugal ($5 m3 million), Metherlands ($2.4 million), 3eLgium-Luxembourg ($2.0 million), France ($L.l million) and Japan ($1.3 million); where explanations of these imports are available they are shown in the notes to the tables of the annex. The reporting countries were, in 1965, the recipients of 79 per cent of Southern Rhodesia's exports, the remainder of which went almost entirely to Malawi and South Africa. In the absence of statistical reports from these two countries for the period under review, it is not possible, at present, to evaluate this part of the total trade. Exports of the reporting countries to Southern Rhodesia amounted to about $54 million in I-967 (compared with $187 million in the year 1965). The countries accounting for the greater part of these exports were Japan ($13.6 million), Federal Republic of Germany ($12.3 million), Netherlands ($4.7 milllon), F rance ($4.0 million), United States ($3.8 million) United Kingdom ($2.9 million), Belgium-Luxembourg ($1.9 million), Switzerland , ($1.9 million), Portugal ($1.8 million), Australia ($1.4 million), Italy " ($1.3 million), and Austria ($1.3 million); as in the case of zmports, this trade involves considerations of the timing of export contracts and the recording of shipments. The reporting countries were, in I-965, suppliers of 68 per cent of the imports of Southern Rhodesia, the remainder of which Came principally from South Africa, MalawS, Mozambique and Iran for which countries statistical data are not yet available for review. English ’ Page 3 Specific commodity groups Imports from Southern Rhodesia into the reporting countries of the eleven commodity groups specified in resolution 232 (l-966), paragraph 2 (s), amounted to $35 million in 1967 (compared with $253 million in the year 196~)~ The most important of these commodities is tobacco, Southern Rhodesian exports of which amounted to $132 million in 1965. Normally, Southern Rhodesian exports of tobacco account for approximately 13 per cent of world exports of all raw tobacco and over 25 per cent of flue-cured tobacco, It has been possible to analyse the data for this commodity more conclusively than is possible for any of the other aggregates in the situation where comprehensive information for all trading nations is not available. The recorded imports of the reporting countries amounting to $8.9 million were explained by Netherlands ($2.3 million), Switzerland ($1.1 million), Belgium-Luxembourg ($2 .O million), the Federal Republic 0% Germany ($2.3 million), and Portugal ($0.6 million) as having been, in some cats&s, bonded stores of earlier date. In these circumstances, an analysis was made of sources of supply of the main tobacco markets to ascertain how the fairly stable consumption of flue-cured tobacco had been maintained in the absence of Southern Rhodesian supplies. The analysis revealed that the former consumers of Southern Rhodesian crop had, in 1967, met their requirements partLy by an expansion of imports from the United States. In 1967 their imports from the United States amounted to $415 million compared with $310 miLlion in 1965. The United States exports of flue-cured tobacco ihcreased from $299 million in 1965 to $403 million in 1967, This increase ih United States exports was confirmed by the corresponding recorded figures of the importing countries. While the United States Large surplus stocks of tobacco enabled the increased demand to be met without significant upward Pressure on world tobacco Prices, it was more expensive however for the former consumers of Rhodesian tobacco to change their source of supply “CO the United States because the prices of the United States tobacco have been traditionally higher. In 1965, the United. States export unit value (average price) for flue-cured tobacco, unstemmed, was 79 US cents per pound (stemmed, 110 cents) as compared with the Rhodesian export price of 49 US Cents. The increase of $104 million in United States exports of flue-cured tobacco between 1965 English Page 4 and 1967 mentioned above, therefore, represented an increase in quantity of . only 77 million pounds as compared with 266 million pounds which was the amount formerly provided to the world market by Southern Rhodesia (I-965). With exports of flue-cured tobacco by Canada and India at more or less the same level in both 1965 and 1967 (L40-150 million pounds), it was clear that exports from these countries did not contribute to fiLling the gap. Part of.the short-fall was in fact filled by a drawing down of tobacco stocks in certain countries. The stock of unmanufactured tobacco at the end of 1967 in the United Kingdom, for instance, was reduced to 435 million pounds from a level of 520 million pounds at the end of 1365 thus accounting for 85 million pounds of the short-fall. Increased imports from four Asian countries (Indonesia, China, Thailand and South Korea) accounted for a further 44 million pounds. The conclusion which the analysis indicates in therefore that the markets formerly supplied by Southern Rhcdesia have met their requirements to the extent of 77 million pounds by increased imports from the United States, by reducing stocks by 85 million pounds and by increased imports from four Asian countries of 44 million pounds. There is consequently a gap of approximately 60 million pounds (value about $30 million) which remains to be investigated in relation to stock changes in countries for which stock data are not yet available. ' The next most important export commodity is asbestos, Southern Rhodesian exports of which amounted to $30 million in 1965. In 1967, the recorded imports Of' the reporting countries amounted to $3.3 million (compased with $25 million in the year 1965). This amount was accounted for mainly by the Federal Republic of Germany ($1.9 million) and the United States ($0.9 million). The United States explained its imports as shipments before 16 December 1966, the effective data of resolution 232 (1966). It may be noted that imports of the reporting Countries from South Africa, an important prorfJ,ucer of asbestos, have increased to an amount of $55 miLLion in 1967 ( compared with $40 million in the year 196 1. Japan imported $10.5 million from South Africa in ~967 (compared with $4.5 million in 1965) and the United Kingdom, $12.7 million (compared with $8.2 million in 1965). It will be noted that prior to 1966 South Africa had been exporting asbestos at a steady level (e.g., during 1960~1963 at a Level s/773l/Acld.5 English We 5 Of abOLl% $35 d1~Ii.011 EIIlCl &Win& 1$64-~@5 of about; $39 million), Data for - l?eCen~ periods 011 iillpOl+3 illtO South Africa from Sou.thern Rhodesia a,re not available . soutt1ern Rhodec ia ' 5 CoPper exports in 1965 amounted to $18.3 miLLion. Of th& amount, $10~6 ~I’Ij.~~ion Were eXpOrted to the Federal Republic of ~~~~~~~~ i, $1.3 milkim to POlStlCf, $1.5 million to the United Kingdom, $1.4 milliol? to Italy, $1 hLL:iOr~ '60 West Malaysian,, atld $2 miLLion Were distributed among the other COLUl~lY~eS listed In the table on copper, Most of the reporting countriec ::hoW~ il’l the tabI.e appear to ha,ve ceased to import copper from Southern Rhodesin 5.1~ l$]i?‘j’ . The Federal Republic of Germany has Provided data Oil its tlande 5.11 1967 l-rhich have been of considerable help in this review. In the case of cnpper, certain considerations of confidentiality have made it KleCeSSary to utiLize published statistics from the Federal Republic of Germany for the tal;)Le in the annex.