TABLE XIII.-Trade agreements between eastern and western European countries-Continued
Agricultural products, wood and products, prefabricated houses, petroleum products, cement, chemicals, glass, machinery, tractors, textiles.
Wheat (50,000), rye (30,000), oats (30,000), barley (60,000), maize (30,000), oilcakes (20,000), crab meat, tobacco (200), caviar, chrome (2,000) and manganese ores (90,000), ferromanganese (10,000), anthracite (60,000), pig iron (30,000), asbestos! (5,000), gas oil (100,000), coal-tar pitch (30,000), apatite (50,000), pitprops (50,000 m3), sawn softwood (200,000 m3), plywood (5,000 m3), cellulose | (5,000), passenger cars (250) furs, bristles.
Cattle, dyestuffs, chemicals, machinery, watches.
Livestock, rice, citrus fruit, dried fruit, olives, eggs, fish, cotton, flax and hemp cuttings, wool and mohair, oilseeds, oilcakes, hides, tobacco.
Herrings (5,000), meat (2,000), fats and oils (8,000), lead (4,000), 20 ships (of which 10 refrigerating), 4 floating cranes, steam boilers, rolled steel (20,000), steel wire (5,000), transformers, electrical cables ($3.8), equipment for light industries ($2.5), chemicals, hides, leather, staple fiber (5,000) and yarn, raw wool and woolen textiles, dyestuffs.
Wheat (50,000), oilcakes
(70,000), Soya beans
(30,000), cotton (2,000),
sawn wood (25,000 stds),
pig iron (7,000), asbestos
(2,000), apatite concen-
trates (20,000).
Wheat (180,000, in 1953,
275,000), rye (50,000, in
1953 100,000), other grain
(35,000), oilcakes (30,000),
fruit and vegetables, sugar
(105,000, in 1953 90,000),
other food, cotton (9,000),
petroleum products
(775,000, in 1953 400,000),
of which petrol 300,000,
fertilizers (200,000), asbes-
tos, chemicals, dyestuffs,
ferroalloys, rolling-mili
products (100,000), indus-
trial equipment and pas-
senger cars ($7.5), appa-
ratus, steel scrap (50,000),
anthracite (100,000), coke
and coking coal (200,000),
calcinated soda (15,000),
sulfur (5,000), manga-
nese ore (30,000), kaolin
(5,000), flax (300), furs
($0.5).
Salted herrings (8,000), but-
ter (10,000, subsequently
increased to 20,000 at Dkr.
7.35 per kg., of which the
last 5,000 tons to be paid
in sterling), lard (6,000),
meat (10,000+5,000 settled
via the Netherlands), 5
refrigerator ships of 900
gross tons each, equip-
ment for ships, machin-
ery, ship repair.
Butter (500), copper wire
(3,000), pulpwood (400,000
m3), sawn wood (280,000
m3), prefabricated houses
(750,000 m3), cellulose
(rayon pulp 16,000), paper
(55,000, in 1953 40,000),
cardboard (20,000), staple
fiber (4,000), ships and
barges (108 units), floating
cranes and other trans-
port and hauling equip-
ment, machinery and ap-
paratus for forestry indus-
tries (among which a com-
plete pulp and paper mill
with 100,000 tons capac-
ity), hydroelectric tur-
bines, powerplant ($7.5),
sewing machines (35,000),
telephone switchboards
(10,000), locomotives (46
of 400 HP), other metal
products, ethyl alcohol
(6,000).
Protocol to trade and clear- |
ing agreement of 8. VII.46.
In August 1953, Denmark
liberalized imports from
the U.S. S. R. to the same
extent as from EPU coun-
tries. Contracts for
ships have been signed.
Negotiations for 5 more
(valued at $15 million)
have started; the counter-
part for these will consist
chiefly of aize, soya
beans, and petroleum,
The difference is settled in
triangular agreements
with the other eastern
European countries (ex-
cept Bulgaria).
The turnover is lower than
in 1953 because of lower
prices. The price of wheat,
for example, was lowered
from $110 to $83 a ton.
Swing credit $0.3.
U. S. S. R. clearing debt 1.III.54
ment of 5.XII.46.
The swing credit
was increased
from $1.5 to $15
in 1954. In a
credit agreement
of 26.1.54 Fin-
land received a
10-year gold loan
of $10 million at
22 percent inter-
est. In addition,
the U. S. S. R.
has agreed to
pay for part of
Finnish exports
in 1954 in free
currencies. Dur-
ing the period
January-April
1954 Finland had
an active balance
of $9, of which
the U. S. S. R.
has so far settled
$5 in gold.
TABLE XIII.-Trade agreements between eastern and western European countries-Continued
1.1.54-31.XII.54 (Signed 25.1.54).
(50,000), kola phosphates
(40,000), coal-tar pitch (25,-
000), gas oil (40,000), tur-
pentine oil, furs, essential
oils, dyestuffs, manganese
ore (40,000), motorcars and
spares.
Wheat (75,000) rye (30,000),
fodder (45,000), crude phos-
phates (20,000), manganese
(30,000) and chrome ores
(7,500), motorcars (2,000
units) and spares.
30-40 Maize (10,000), oilcakes (30,-
000), tobacco, cotton, pe-
troleum and products
(600,000), chrome ore (20,
000), manganese ore (15,-
000), silver, toluol, paraf-
fin, benzol, anthracite.
TABLE XIV-A.-Regional distribution of Soviet production and consumption of all iron and steel products, 1938
Source: Clark, M. Gardner. Studies in the Soviet Iron & Steel Industry, unpub. 1 Of the 22.5 percent of steel pipe in miscellaneous regions, most of it, or 18.8 percent, was consumed in Trans-Caucasia, site of the Soviet oil industry.
1 Quarterly Bulletin of Steel Statistics for Europe, ECE, Geneva, September 1953. ? For full sources see appendix 1, the European Steel Market in 1953, Geneva 1954.
* Data estimated by the Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Europe. 4 Denmark, Finland, Greece, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey.
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