Rationing 1947). Tea was still on ration until 1952. In 1953 rationing of sugar and eggs ended, and in 1954, all rationing finally ended when cheese and meats came off ration. Sugar was again rationed in 1974 after Caribbean producers began selling to the more lucrative United States market. Many centralized planned economies introduced a peacetime rationing system due to food shortages in the postwar period. North Korea and China did so in the 1970s and 1980s, Communist Romania during the 1980s, the Soviet Union in 1990–1991, and from 1962-present in Cuba. A good example of this system was Poland. In
Rationing in the United Kingdom under 5; for those under 18; children unable to attend school , certain invalids up to . Each consumer received one tin of milk powder (equivalent to ) every eight weeks. Persons falling within the following descriptions were allowed of cheese a week in place of the general ration of : In Britain during the Second World War, clothes rationing was announced on June 1,1941. This was majorly caused by the increased need for clothing materials to be utilized for producing uniforms. By this point in the war, one fourth of the population was now wearing uniforms. Much of the