SOVIET FOREIGN TRADE FACT SHEET

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
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SOVIET FOREIGN TRADE FACT SHEET
SOVIET FOREIGN TRADE (US$ billions)
1955 1956 1957 1958 (east)
TOTAL 6.53 7.23 8.32 8.50
With bloc 5.11 5.35 6.00 6.15
With free world 1.42 1.88 2.32 2.35
In 1158 total Soviet foreign trade was oily 2/3 size that of B .UX
foreign trade.
In 1938 Soviet foreign trade with free world was equal to about 1 per-
cent of free world trade. This trade was slightly less than DEAMARK'ss
foreign trade.
Principal Soviet commodities exported to the free world:
wood and wood products
iron and steel
petroleum and solid fuels
agricultural products
Principal commodities purchased from the free world:
iron and steel products
machinery and manufactured goods
cotton, sugar, rubber
SOVIET TRADE PARTNERS:
Over $1 billion in '58:
Over $250 million in '58:
Over $100 million in '5E
last German
Rumania
Egypt
Communist China
Bulgaria
West Germany
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Finland
India
UK
Worth Korea
Over $500 million in '58:
France
France
Czechoslovakia
Poland
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SOVIET SIGN AID PROGRAM: 1946 - June 1959
Loans, credits and grants to the bloc
$ 4.1 billion
Other "assistance" to the bloc: debt $ 3.6 billion
cancellations, rebates, etc.
Loans, credits, and grants to the free world
(1954 - 1959)
$ 2.5 billion
$24.2 billion
Soviet aid to the free world constitutes 40 percent of all Soviet
loans, credits and grants.
US loans and grants during the sane period (46-59) total $44.0 billion.
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