President Nixon’s Intention to visit Peking is attracting tremendous Interest all over the world. The present article discusses past developments of US/Chinese trade and Its possibilities In the future.

Although Britain’s trade exchanges with the Comecon-states in 1971 amounted to no more than 3.17 p.c. of its total foreign trade, high growth rates have nevertheless been achieved in recent years.

After the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan is the second largest trade partner of the Communist countries as a whole and of the Soviet Union and the largest partner of the People’s Republic of China. It has only been in recent years that Japan gained this formidable position in the trade...