MOZAMBIQUE - Page 10.
T..BLE I
1958      1959      1960
Imports From:
Portugal 932,000    889,000  1,055,000
Portugal Overseas 160,000    171,000    202,000
Abroad 2,344,000  2,491,000  2,538,000
Exports To:
Portugal 910,000 900,000 1,008,000
Portugal Overseas 72,000 87,000 66,000
Abroad 1,040,000 916,000 1,024,000
(The figures are given in the values of contos; one
conto equals about &35.00 or shs 250/=.)
The mnonetary unit is the Mozambique escudo of 100 centavos.
a thousand escudos is known as a conto.  The following coins and
notes are in use:
Coins:  Copper, nickel and silver coins of 10, 20
and 50 centavos, 1, 2.50, 5 and 10 escudos.
Notes:  (Banco Nacial Ultramarino issues) of 50
centavos; 1, 2.50, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500
and 1,000 escudos.
100 escudos are equal to shs 23/50 or *3.29.
The philosophy and law which guides the Mozambique economy
is based on economic integration of Overseas Territories with
Metropolitan Portugal.  That the economy of Mozambique is closely
linked with that of Portugal is evidenced by the fact that the
mother country purchases about one half of the colony's exports
while exporting to the Territory manufactured cotton textiles.
It is with the chronic trade deficit of Mozambique, coupled v/ith
revenues from Mozambique's ports and rails, that Portugal has
maintained her own balance of payments.
Since the year I960 several reforms have been enacted concerning labour regulation. The International Labour Commission
noted in its report that:
"'The general effect of these changes appears to have been
to provide new administrative machinery for the enforcement of
labour legislation, to abolish the previous special status of
natives, to modify or abolish arrangements concerning the
cultivation of cotton, rice and castor oil, which had been alleged
to involve an element or danger of forced labour, and to terminate systems of recruitment of workers through the administrative
authorities which had continued to exist in certain cases after
23 November I960.'"  (From United Nations document a/5160, p. 118;
ILO:  Report of the ILO Commission, Complaint by the Government of
Ghana, para. 72bJ.
But the UN Special Committee on Territories Under Portuguese
Administration says: (Document A/5160, page 119-120)
"...the Committee heard many complaints against the continued
existence of various forms of forced labour and other labour
practices in the Territories administered by Portugal, including
control of the movement of workers, lack of freedom of association,
participation of public authorities in the recruitment of labour,
physical ill-treatment of workers, and other abuses....The information provided by the petitioners gives further substance to the
findings of the ILO Commission concerning the existence of forced
labour in the Territories even after the ratification by Portugal