TABLE 24.-Soviet bloc planned exports of grains, cotton, and tobacco as listed in trade agreements between certain free world countries and Soviet bloo countries Continued

TABLE 24.Soviet bloc planned exports of grains, cotton, and tobacco as listed in trade agreements between certain free world countries and Soviet bloc countries-Continued

Norway-Rumania:

Agreement signed Nov. 9, 1957:

2,000 metric tons.

Pro memoria (as available).
Do.

Bread and feed grains (unspecified)... 4,000,000 Norwegian kroner.

TABLE 24.-Soviet bloc planned exports of grains, cotton, and tobacco as listed in trade agreements between certain free world countries and Soviet bloc countries-Continued

TABLE 24.-Soviet bloc planned exports of grains, cotton, and tobacco as listed in trade agreements between certain free world countries and Soviet bloo

countries-Continued

United Kingdom-Hungary:

3-year agreement of June 27, 1956:

Lists not available; unspecified agricul-
tural products mentioned.

Earlier agreement included rice valued at
£130,000.

United Kingdom-Poland:

3-year agreement signed Dec. 30, 1957, no
official lists available.

Agricultural products, including a bacon
quota, mentioned but not otherwise
specified.

United Kingdom-U.S.S.R.:

Trade agreement signed Dec. 27, 1947, is in-
operative but not denounced; the original
lists included unspecified amounts and
kinds of grain.

United Kingdom-North Korea:

Nongovernmental trade agreement signed
Apr. 22, 1958:

Bahrein:

No grains, cotton, or tobacco.

The information above refers only to trade and/or payments agreements between governments or between nongovernmental trading organizations where the agreement operates like a governmental trade agreement. Contracts have not been included. Furthermore, as far as is known, trade between any of the pairs of countries may be carried on outside of the trade agreements; and trade between free world and bloc countries may take place without any trade agreement.

The CHAIRMAN. I would now like now to recognize Mr. Heimburger for a brief explanation of the charts and statements contained in this committee print.

STATEMENT OF JOHN HEIMBURGER, GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Mr. HEIMBURGER. If all of the members of this committee have the Committee Print in front of them I will run through it very briefly to point out to you what is here so that it can be of use to you during the course of these hearings.

Table 1, "U.S. agricultural exports, calendar years 1957 and 1958," is self-explanatory. It merely shows all agricultural exports, both surplus and otherwise, for the calendar years 1957 and 1958. It is noteworthy only in that it shows exports were down 14 percent in 1958 compared to 1957.

Table 2, "U.S. agricultural exports, July-April," is the same sort of a comparison but on a fiscal year basis and carries the comparison 4 months further to April 1959, and it shows exports are down 7 percent in the first 10 months of the 1959 fiscal year compared to the same period for the previous fiscal year.

Table 3, "U.S. agricultural exports by country of destination, calendar years 1957 and 1958," is rather significant. It shows by countries the status of our agricultural exports, and of interest in that table is the fact that it shows that 70 percent of our decrease in agricultural exports has occurred in six hard currency countries into which the Department will not permit surplus commodities to move by barter.

The CHAIRMAN. Will you name those countries, please?

Mr. HEIMBURGER. Those countries are the United Kingdom, Japan, West Germany, the Netherlands, I believe, Italy, and Belgium. Mr. JOHNSON. Why did you leave Canada out?

Mr. HEIMBURGER. Simply because it is a different kind of country than the European countries. I would be glad to include Canada. I simply mentioned the six that added up to the 70 percent of the decline.

The CHAIRMAN. No barter transactions are carried on in those hard currency countries?

Mr. HEIMBURGER. Not without a special showing of additionality

which is difficult to make.

Table 4, "Domestic exports; July-April 1957-58 and 1958-59," merely breaks the exports down by commodities to give you an idea of what each one has done.

Table 5, "U.S. agricultural exports under specified Governmentfinanced programs and total agricultural exports, calendar years 1957 and 1958," shows the exports under specified Government programs and how they compare for the calendar years 1957 and 1958.

Over on page 66, table 6, is a composite of all the title I agreements that have been made since the start of the program and the shipments that have been made under that program under each agreement.

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