MIDDLE EAST- AFRICA- SOUTH ASIA

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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 17, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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SC No. 10379/75
December 17, 1975
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MIDDLE EAST - AFRICA - SOUTH ASIA
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the Middle East - Africa Division, Office of Current Intelligence,
with occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of
Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to
the authors of the individual articles.
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USSR-Egypt: Economic Talks . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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USSR-Egypt
The only tangible result of recent talks in
Cairo on rescheduling Egypt's debts to the USSR
was the signature of a trade protocol for 1976.
The protocol sets next year's trade target at
$650 million, a reduction of at least 10 percent
from 1975.
The protocol apparently allows Egypt to ex-
port $140 million more than it imports; presumably
some of the balance may be allocated for debt pay-
ments. Egypt is scheduled to export cotton, yarn,
textiles, citrus, and other products. It will im-
port wood and paper products, coal, petroleum, and
other commodities.
Cairo ranks as Moscow's largest trading partner
among the developing nations, accounting for more
than 15 percent of such Soviet trade in 1974.
The trade is even more important to Egypt, accounting
for one fourth of its trade overall.
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Egypt ran its first sizable surplus with the
USSR in 1974 when its exports exeeeded imports by
$165 million. Cairo's exports probably exceeded
imports again in 1975 because of large Soviet pur-
chases of cotton. (CONFIDENTIAL)
Dec 17, 1975
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