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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00545A000100090142-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 142
• Content Type: NSPR

fiddle East
four months of 1958.7 There-71i
no trade with the Soviet Union
.or Czechoslovakia, and relations
with the former have been
strained even more recently by
.a Soviet arbitration tribunal's
dismissal of an Israeli suit for
damages arising fronnpp the uni-
lateral Soviet disruption of the
oil-for-oranges trade in late
1956 as sanction for Israel's of-
fensive against Egypt
.
IRAN - Economic relations
with the Communist bloc, par-
ticularly the Soviet Union, have
been increasing during the last
two years. A three-year Soviet-;
Iranian trade agreement con-
cluded in April, 1957, provides
for increased trade annually
bloc takes 16 per cent of Le
Lanese exports and suppli
one-thig of the citrus crop an
gets a good deal of propagand
value from its trade.
UNITED ARAB REPtTBLI
I first three months of 1958_ -t It
lin^Czechoslovak and $178,04
I have begun. Hungarians h
built a new bridge across
ed. Syrian trade with
Communist bloc incre
sharply in 1957.
Yemen an interest-free $16,0
000 credit for road building
the Communist Chinese pro
ing also to send technicians
Africa
visa unist7
BjJ MA-Burma has So$
cretlitbut, has been unable.
bet 4,isfactory Soviet go
has, tried in vain to have t A
edits transferred to otii
Q u list countries. The Bur-
reported favorably im-
.pr by Soviet "gift" pro -
uding a technical insti-
tutg, hospital, hotel, exhibi-
1 and stadium, though
" ?mese were forced to
agree o a reciprocal gift of
tw year shipments of rice
ancer goods.
C MBODIA - Communist
Chiri,a has promised aid, in the
f~FA; Of goods and foreign ex-
change, equivalent to $22,400,-
the end of 1957, more
than.$ ,000,000 of aid goods had
arrived
aived but the construction of
SjQUs.-plants promised is ap-
arenly, still distant. Czechoslo-
i_.~Foland, the Soviet Union
,,and North Vietnam have been
seeking Cambodian trade.
- CEYLON-Trade with Com-
munist China this year is like-
ly to be the same as or less
than last year, when the Chi-
nese-took 11 per cent of Cey-
'1o11'. -exports (mostly rubber)
and sent 5 per cent of imports
-(mainlyrice). Peiping is provid-
ing S3,250,000 worth of goods
in aid this year instead of pay-
a. Premium rubber price as
`. _A
_ Soviet aid pact was
uded early this year, with,
e Russians offering a loan of
8,500,000 for five years at 2,,t2
"m t