The ring-binder is labelled '1952/53 Exports Tea' and '3. Exports', and is divided into five sections:

1. General: correspondence (including telegrams and extracts of letters) between Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong, and Matheson & Co. Ltd, London, 26 March-18 November 1952, with related letters and papers, including a memorandum by F.A. Norton on tea in Eastern Europe, dated Hong Kong, 12 August 1952, and a 'Report by R. Shoppee on Visit to Casablanca and Algiers re Tea. 9th to 17th September 1952', dated London, 22 September 1952, with related letters from Shoppee.

2. Taipei: correspondence (including telegrams and extracts of letters) between Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong and Taipei, 19 March 1952-27 May 1953, with related papers, including a memorandum on the 'Formosa Tea 1953/4 Season' by C.B. Campbell, Tea Department, Jardine Matheson, Taipei, 31 January 1953, and a memorandum on 'Taipei Operations Season 1953' by F.A. Norton, Hong Kong, 30 March 1953.

3. Chabrières et Cie: correspondence between Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong, and Matheson & Co. Ltd, London; correspondence of Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong, and Matheson & Co. Ltd, London, with Chabrières et Cie, Marseilles; and two memoranda by F.A. Norton, Tea Department, Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong, 10 December 1952-26 August 1953.

4. Tea Shipments: correspondence between Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong, and Matheson & Co. Ltd, London, with three lists of undrawn shipments to Matheson & Co. Ltd for which no credits have been received, 17 April 1952-3 March 1953.

5. Reports: a memorandum on the tea trade in China by F.A. Norton, Hong Kong, 20 February 1952; 'Tea Report on Casablanca and Algiers Visited by Campbell 10th to 23rd May, 1953', dated London, 10 June 1953; a memorandum on C.B. Campbell's tea report by F.A. Norton, Hong Kong, 26 June 1953; and a little related correspondence, 20 February 1952-30 June 1953.