大米换橡胶：20世纪50年代的中锡贸易

1952年9月和12月,中国与锡兰从各自的需要出发,签订了以大米换橡胶为主要内容的政府贸易协定,不仅开创了新中国同尚未建交、又是不同社会制度国家签订政府贸易协定的先河,而且建立了新中国与锡兰间的贸易关系,促进了两国贸易额的迅速增长。1957年8月,中锡在签订第二个五年贸易协定时,面对超价难题,周恩来提出了将贸易和援助分开来谈,即橡胶贸易按照公平的市场价格,但中国同时给予锡兰经济援助的设想,使谈判进入了比较顺利的阶段。中锡贸易协定的执行和续订,从南亚和东南亚方向打开了美国对华封锁、禁运的缺口,促进了中锡友好关系的发展。

Bartering Rice for Rubber:Sino-Ceylonese Trade in the 1950s

Out of their respective demand China and Ceylon signed a governmental trade agree- ments mainly for bartering rice for rubber in September and December of 1952,which not only cre- ated a precedent that New China signed a trade agreement with a country of a different social system that had not established diplomatic relations with it,but also cemented the trade relations between the two countries and brought about a rapid increase in their trade volume.When China and Ceylon signed the second five- year trade...