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308. Memorandum From the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs ( Mann ) to President Johnson

to the extent we can increase disposal for U.S. Government uses at the expense of synthetic rubber, there is no problem. Second, it is not in our interest to reduce further export earnings from rubber of Indonesia, Malaysia (or, to a lesser extent, Nigeria) because: a) Malaysia and Indonesia depend on the export of natural rubber for the bulk of their foreign exchange earnings. b) The price of natural rubber in world markets has been declining and natural rubber’s share of total world rubber consumption has also been declining. The proposed increase in commercial sales of our stockpile rubber …

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1965-12-09
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume IX, International Development and Economic Defense Policy; Com
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v09/d308
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Record ID	`frus:frus1964-68v09/d308`

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308. Memorandum From the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs ( Mann ) to President Johnson. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1965. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1964-68v09/d308.