ECONOMIC - FOREIGN TRADE

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CLASSIFICATION
CENN&L INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SUBJECT Economic - Foreign trade
DATE DIST. ( May 1954
NO. OF PAGES
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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The term "State Treaty," as used ir this report, refers to
the treaty concluded by the GDR and the USSR, probably in April
1952, by which the USSR returned 66 SAG:, (Soviet Corporations)
to GDR. owne_sh1p. According to a report in Die Neue Zenon , a
West German newspaper, of 29/30 August l953 9 t_ae agreed in
the treaty to pay for these SAGS by delivering commodities to
the USSR at the rate of 350 million rubles' worth of -o=odities
per yea,-,.
The ter. "'L' arcna t" in this report refers to the account
into which rents o-1 :,r?ofits of the SAGS are paid. The balance
in thin raccorat i- transferred to the USSR by means of commodity
allowing s.bbreviations are used in tlis report:
Main department
Ministry of Foreign and Trade
Main administration
People-owned enterprise
Inns-,erman and Foreirc Trnde Z:r..erprise
;~ni et Corporatior.
Las, Metallurgical CG;bine (nca calla, J. W.
Stalin Coabin.:)
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Negotiation of the 195 GDr=ur
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Helmut Junderlich, (then' Minister of General Machine Building, and
formerly director of the VEB ABUS Nordhausen Plant.
Werner Klopp, deputy directory of DIA for Metals.
use Dorath, a secretary in the MAI.
Rudolf Hordlitzka, main desk chief in the MAI.
Gustav Rrcnde.L, director of trade of the DIA for- Machinery.
Gerhard Richter, office chief in the DIA for Glass and Ceramics.
Gerhsr'd Wiegand, office chief in the DIA for Metals.
Horrt 7.irpe1, deputy directory of the DIA for Chemical:,.
Rolf Aechenbach, office chief it the DIA for L1ICtrica.~ Equipment.
;':Ifred Spa-.hto, de;)uty dt.rect or In the DIA for Textiles.
o stark, cfiic.. chief it the D1A iccc Foodstuff!?.
Guenter Peserecn office, chief in the DIp_ fee, Transportation Machinery.
; nge Freite;c rcr?. p; eter in the tilt !rxr Tdarhi ner y.
she ODR delegation ui-u the long-tern G1 -USSR Trade agreement, concl,ided
ic. 1951, as a point of depa-t.wre for the negotiations. The follovinn table
shows the GDR export s::a 1m crt. figures of ihr. CI?-t'SGR trade agreements,
and actu l '.-liveries, 1950-1952 (fn mi?lior. rubles) (i):
Exports
to
638
638
730
730
1,222
1,013
1,100
1,030
1,533
1,340
1,067
1,267
i,6(4
1,340
(A West German newspaper, which also cites this table states that it
was compiled by the "Research Committee of Free ?Juriots."(2i)
Period Covered.
1950 A-"eemcnt
Actual deliveries
1951 Agreement
Actual deliveriee
1952 Agreement
Actual deliveriee
953 A n rrruiciit
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Thus, the G'?i!R-USSR long-term trade agreement of 1951 provided for (MR
exports in 1953 of 1.6 billion rubles, worth of cos>sodities, and for GDR im-
ports of 1.3 (1.34) billion rubles' w-rth of coomwdities. This was the original
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listed in the long-term trade 4,~rc.enent actually amounted only to l..2 billion
rubles of OR exports and 1.15 billion rubles of GDR imports, Moreover, it was
clear from the beginning of the negotiations that the commodity listings in the
long.-term trade agreement, were no longer realistic-(1) In the long-term trade
agreement of 1951, the OR had agreed to export certain general cosmssodity groups;
but it was unable to fulfill the obligations it had assumed in that agreement.
For the UBSR generally ordered just th?oae eo odltles,, which were in short supply
in the GDR.(3) The fo11c"aina table lists sons of the general cormnadity groupu,
included in the son; -term tcada> .=_~rrtemen'. trhich, t!v, ',,DR. cc i de?Svsr only in
part or not at all:(1;
0)~ CAL i% Gro
Flufiers
Couplets squi}asent for 1 01;0 ra.
nteaar, tilrbanr..
flare Ilel-plardrg mactaneo
:?7 i p;.n.^.L for th,. :her1^41 ] i C~' f tt }
l:quirzent for the rr.?~r,'?1+
T s?bngenera? ' n
Power plan-.-
C.cueeators, mrtnr_
The GDit could not. del. tnc i......,t: l,at ::ai d ic:
aaco 1t}' grc;,ps wh I
were included i* the err _.ade n,rc-rmcnt ;+J
Commodity Group
Equipment for food-. ;ccaci-:,? _na:ut:.
Equipment fc: 2rickrorLj mate.
Floating pile diivers
SIIeltiea-furnorp tn~tAl! ?r,,,~
Avails.'bL. rc,r
Exp,~rts ut Time
of Troie.
d!< ?at,l ~sta~ _
..2 million
rubles;
The hydroturbincs, ttubosgenerators. power plant-s, and fl'~uting pile drivers
listed above could not be delivered because they had not yet been designed. Only
42 (not 1t5, as shown above] power plants were promised by the GDR in the long-
term trade agreement, and they were to produce jO;Ct00 kilowatts each.0)
to ?,a
i, 0"'yi - ti'rn 'l.:?~.: s
s:t11:'r
rui?:u,
::a:tity or value List?.d
_n Long-Term Trade eement
.0 mil,irn rubles.
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ire GAR found it no diffi:ult to complete delivery of the commodity groups
listed above that Minister Kurt Gregor asked the Ministry of Foreign Trade USSR
whether r,n1!( )f the obligations ass> d by the MR in the long-term trade agree-
ment could not be lowered or canceled. The Soviets agreed to these changes,
and on their part requested that certain other commodity groups be delivered by
the GDR in smaller amounts or not at all. The latter ccsnodity groups included
the following (1):
Sludge pu-mpu 350 units
Crane motors 1,000 units
Electric not. s a Cry units
Potash (38-J--2%) 11-"WC c.crc
Measuring and toetinc !r,ctrsc+nerts 35 n:1211or.
Electric elevators 6C{~ vrtf
180 units
1,000 uniis
22 million
r ab ).e s
[Sour.. _ eta?cc c r;ne GDR, n >u L'a3R , sal c~ for a reduction in
the GLR deliveries of eq ipment bias :r_n er,. j
if the "glue of the conncditioe t be delivered tc "he t'3SF by the GDR
under the long t,rm trade agreement amounted to 1.2 bfl_Licn rublea, cc xoditiee
in the amount of about '?2C million rubles remained tc be delivered after the
reduction listed ebove had been made. Rowever, the GM vas not expectec: to
be able to deliver a further 200 million rubles' worth of coeodities, because
its production facilities were overloaded and because.theoe vas a shortage of
materials.
Another difficulty in the negotiations was the backlog of deliveries from
the 1=, trade agreement. On receipt of s, diplomaticnott from the USSR 're-
garding this backlog;, the GDR requested the USSR to postpone delivery of 225
million rubles' worth of commodities of this backlog, becat*e..these commodities
could not possibly be delivered by 31 December 1952. However, this backlog
actuall.g amounted to 335 million rubles' worth of coramrditiee.(1)
[Source 2 states that the GAR backlog of deliveries to the USSR esoumted
to 450 million rubles on 11 December 1952. of which 393 million rubles were
acouwxlated by the nonfulfillment of the 1952 export p.ipn. The.bseklog, accord-
ing to this source, was the 4ubject of a considerable dispute between the
governments of the GDR and the USSR; it led to the retireamat of Georg Handke
as Minister of Foreign and Intra-German Trade [on 13 September 1952) and to a
sharp protest from USER Foreign Minister Vyehinskiy to Minister President Otto
Orotewohl.]
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the, 1953 GDR exa ore potcen:::A by :~ n. od ! i ru`_ (4 )
detailed aaa.ysis of the GPR economic situaticn and pointing out the discrep-
ancies between its import needs and i`s export i.otential. :alnister Kurt
)' qor nimse)f :stated t jt hi,; 1.e;ter had been r,eiit.(11 'According to source
trio letter was written by Minister Prestueut Otto ;;-?otewoh1.
the GDR boverc,mon-t wrote to Stalin [e.'.: an .u:en-:c.ifled dater, glvito a
Altar Stalin's the IJ R decider- tc ?cnie :o an a,-ytecment with thi
GDR. it wiped out tits t,.: ~1_~ deft-it by nc; i ,. c:; cxr:: t de'_ve:wes. the
ollowtng categories of ,...Ycxtity c;;i aentc. (a o tier: which were to be
,'slivered , _ider t::? . to.t.c Treat;;, and (b) : (_e:, i. a u::'. n e a to 4e delivered
from the "T" account.. The ;fFSil ccanocl.ei 2?5 ei].11:n rob',. ;wed to it under
the State 'k-reaty and 28, nil-lion _?ua?_e= owc5 t) it from "T" ao ount, and
credited the:
e zuaour,te to the foreign-trade
The Ministry of Foreign trade of the USSR transraitted now commodity
to the UDR trade m:csion aentionci above) in mid.-April [1953). These lists
set CDR exports at 1.6 billion rubles and GDR imports at 1.34 billion .ubleb.._
(1, 2) [Source 4 lists the exports as 1.55 billion rubles.) The new commodity
lists reflected the adjustment, already described, in the USSR's demand for GDR
exports of heavy-industry produ^ts. They also included [unnpecifiedj commod-
ities, which the USSR had not heretofore imported from the-am.(1) The latter
were produote of the GDR light industry.
On the basis of the new cc2::odaty 1i5t:,, a GDR-USSR treide agreeent vq,s
signed in Moscow on 28 April .1953.
The difference between the 1.55 billion rubles' north of GDR exports and
the 1.34 billion rubles' worth of GDR imports, proviaed for in the 1953 CMReUSSR
trade agree,nsnt of 28 April 1 05'1 -i1 *. eery to the debts which the RwA! c-vz,-
the USSR. Moreover, the GDR roust make up Its 1952 ?back:,og of deliveries to the-
USSR. Since the beginning of 1953, delivery of thia?backlog.(385 million rubles)
has been extremely slow; only 230 million rubles' vortn of these cemmodities had
been delivered by the end of May 1953, In addition to the 155 million rubles'
worth of cpmmodities, which thus remained from the 1952 backlog, a further back-
log of 100 million rubles' worth of cosaodities had already piled up under the
1953 trade agreement [possibly by the end of June 19531. This backlog is likely
to increase further before the end of 1953, especially in view of the most re-
cent events [presumably the institution of the New Course policy). F'urthe ore,
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the ODR was able to plan the production of the 1.55 billion rubles' worth of
export coamodities only with the greatest difficulties. it is ast,1 ated,
therefore, tthat the backlog of 1953 GDR 'emits to the USSR will amount to at
Analysis of GDR Imports Under the 1953 OW-USSR Trade Aaeenent
Quantity De-
sirerd' Z
Quantity Agreed on
in Trade 'Woment
Butter
35,E
30,000
Vegetable oil
42,000
18,500
Wheat
300.000
300,000
;barley
750,00
450,000
Oats
70,000
70,000
Rye
120,000
60,000
Corn
50,000
50,000
Meat
5:000
5,000
Animal
1,000
1,000
Rolli.g-miU. producta
220,000
191,000
Pipe s
=G.00)
(or morn)
23,400
Copper
13,000
10,000
Lead
14,000
12,400
Pig iron
200,000
170,000
[Unapecified] ores
800,000
(or mere)
6805000
Anthracite
210,000
120,000
Tin
8,000
8,CAC
Mercury
250
180
Ship planks
5,000 all
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Red lead
900
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Forgings
1;700
350
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Quantity Det- Quantity Agreed on
sired. by C in gads .6 eeioent
Harvester cc banes 400 units 400 units
mica 150 80
High-grade asbestos 2,600 2,600 (of third
and fourth
quality) (1)
Cadmium 80 26 (4)
The ODR expected to receive the entire quantity of wheat, which the W SR
is to export to the under this agreement, by 31 July 1953. The like-
wise expected to receive by that date the entire quantity of ostsc 300,000
tong of barley, and 35,000 tons of rye, of the total quantities to be imported
from'the USSR. All other iaTorts from the MM are expeted in full by 31 De-
cember 1953.
The folloving are data about ODR wool and cotton iscpo~ts from the (in
tons) (.I)
'Wool
C}DR re uirament 13,000
Quantity ODR desires to import from the U88R 7,000
Quantity of DR i^purty provided for in the
1953 GDR-U88R trade agreemant 5,200
Cotton
CDR requirements 79,000
Quantity OR desires to import from the U98R 74,000
Quantity of ODR imports provided for in the
1953 Obit-T. 8R trade agreement 62,000
The fol:cving additional information 4e available on soma of the import
items listed above:
Butter
Butter was in very short supply in the GI)R at the end of 1952. The
GDR had not been able to import 8,000 tons of butter for +Ihich it had "on-
tracted with other ;ountries. F`urthermorre, the U8SR had dslivssd only 23,000
of the 33,000 tons of butter which it had agreed to export to the G under
the 1952 MR- U 3 8 R trade agreement, The 1 bought abroad ;some or all of the)
butter which it delivered to the GDR in 19'52.(4), Since butter vas available
even in Noscov only in very snail amounts during the Christmas season (1952),
and on as days none vas availa'ile, the U88R refused to increase i.ts butter
exports to the amt in 1953.
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120,000 tone of barley, were to be completed by the end of the second quaarter
of 1953, in order to ms~- supplies last until the 1953 harvest.(4)
The CSR requests for corn, vheat,.,and oats were satisfied. only: after
the questt.on had been referred to the highest officials. However, the GM re-
quests for barley and rye were not satisfied. The OR itself expected to-pro-
duce about 7 million tons of grain, but it needs about 8 million tons. The OAR
Ministry of Trade and Supply announced that the difference will be made up by
using oil meal and forage from the state reserve. If supplies are to last until
the 1953 harvest, imports must be assured through the second quarter of 195341)
The trade agreement provides that all grain delivereies, with the exception of
thio amount to 5,000 tone of meet and 1,000 tone of animal fate, to make more
money avaia.ble for the purchase of rolling ill products.
The total GM requirownts of rolling-mill products ur.dor the 1953
plan are 2.3 million tone. Of this amount, 1,(30,0(90 tons are to be produced
in the OR and 310,000 tons are to be imported. i'hi remaining 360,000 tope
arm to be We up by overfulfillment of the 1953 GAR productionr plan and by
having elabe rolled on contract in 4oreign co=tries.
As of 28 February 1953, these rolling-mill products are needed for
the following purposes:
TTonfl
.xports to the USSR
285,000
Aeparatiuns
235, Coo
State Treaty
9:,000
"V' account deliveries
11,000
The vale of 50,000 tons
lion rubles.(?`
of rollirg-mill products is given as 155 mil-
The GDR has a deficit of at least 400,000 tons of rolling-mill products
[in 19531 because of the high reparations deliveries and other deliveries, and
because of the high domestic demand.(4)
The GDR requires [in 19531 8o;ooc tons of pipes, Of this amount,
18,000 tons rare 'to be produced in t e taut and 37,000 tons are to be imported,
(At the end of 1952, the 1953 pipe-production plan. bad ben 30,000 tins..) The
remaining 25,000 tons (13,000 tons, originalily) will have to be made up by
purchases in other countries or by foregoing some necessary repair work in
mines and on railroads.
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Copper
The GUR's 1953 copper requirements are 53,000 tons. Ofd production
from copper ore at Msxisfeld, from copper ecrep, etc. will guilt to 39,000 tons,
and 10,000 tons will be imported. This will leave the OR economy 4,000 tons
short of its rec,airea:ents. (l)
Great difficulties exist in the supply cf copper. Production at the
Wilhelm Pieck Mansfeld Coaebine is very snail, but the desert of the electrical-
delivered to the U ,
t b
e
equil nt industry, especisliv for cable which mus
is so great that there is a shortage of about 5,000 tonlis . However, aluminum
winding is now being u;,..,' for electric motore(M)
Of the 33,000 tons of lead required in 1953, 20,005? toss will be pro-
1
s will he imported.
00 to
n
du.ced in the GDR and rocove,eed f r= scrap, end 12, 5
This will leave the economy 600 tons or more short of its requirsents.
iron Ore
riMaa.ily from the ISrivay-Rcg area, It
ore
p
The QAR requested iron
was expected that use of this ore would permit a more edvantaVtr4N oweion
of the charge, wh:,cb.would result in lover coke coneu4tion. Vovevor, sole of
the ore was to be delivered from the Kesch area-(1)
Pig iron
The GDR will requs.re 2.3 million tons of ilia iron in 1953 to :1f111
u;c9 acormic }Ian. 1114g-iron production, however, is as follows (in tons):
E1 , 2telinstad2 750,000
Mexhuette, Untervellenborn 300,000
Neat Meballurgicel Plant, Calbe 20Q,000 (4)
The GDR'e 1953 requirements of coke are 5,300,000 (5,360,000) tons.
This quantity is required by industrial plants a follows (in tone):
EKG, 6Calinatadt 1,080,000
Warchustte, Untervallenborn 350,000
West Metallurgical Plant, Calbe 460,000
Eettntedt Rolling Mill 3?0,000
Fc-un rlegf etc
VEEs
SAGS
1,BOp,000
1,340,000
of this amount, 950,000 tarns ere to be imported from Poland, 900,000
toms from C:.Lhoslorakia, and 325,000 tons from the U98R. fte be]ena is to be
obtained from the llatyaa REakosi Coking Plant in Lauebbeanserq the Liebknscht
Coking plant (location not indicated), and from gas plants.`1)
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The coke supply will fall about 700,000 tons short of GOR requirements.
Not all the needed coke can be supplied through imports; the production in
Poland has also been below the planned total, and Czechoslovakia cannot deliver
more than 900,000 tons to the QDR. The GDR requirements are to be met by in-
creased imports of anthracite and by the use of brown coal in industry.(4)
short of requirements. This shortage is to be made up from increased imports.
of anthracite. It is believed that the ;,DR's 1953 requirements of black coal
The coke.supply will be least 670,000 [cf. 700,000 tons above) tons
The GD:R's 1953 requirements of tin will probably be net by imposts
from Poland. It is believed that even the 8,000 tons of tin listed above as
imported from the USSR in 1953. However, the GDR will receive only ..8o tons ofr.'
The failure to import all the cadmium requested by the GDR will cause
considerable difficulties in the production of Lamps for miners Lr4.trans?-
portatios employees. Safety in mining and t_araportaticn will thus be affected.
Red lead is required primarily for reparations deliveries and exports
to the USSR. The USSR will not accept goods coated with substitvH! .
Ship plate
Ship planks sae needed primarily for reparations production.(1)
rorgings
In 1953, the GDR requires 2,500 tors of forgings,.for the electri
power pc'og'sm and for the planned increases In heavy-industryprodilotion. (1) At
least 1,700 tons of this gwsn~ity wo+a].3 have to be imported from the UeJR.
When the 1953 GDR-USSR trade agreement was signed, orders for only 350 tons
of forging. could be placed in the USSR, Rlthough the greatest efforts were
made to place more. Moreover, none of the forgina so ordered were for tur-
bines of more than 12.5-kilowatt capacity. Between 28 April and 30 June 1953,
the USSR accepted or+1ere for a few more forging.. In 1952 the USSR delivered
only 3 forginp out of a total of 15 ordered by the GDR.(41 9emifinichad forg-
ing* are to be annealed in Hungry.
The GDR has great difficulty in obtaining mica, because Russian and
Chinese mica is of low quality. The GDR hap bee>1 able to secure 1953 imports
of only 80 tons.(1)
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The principal C exports under the 1953 dDR-t SE true agreement are. re-
ported in the following table (i.)a
Ccxmsod_ities
Vertical lathes
Blast-furnace egtaipme!~
Steel-melting equllmment
Casting machines
Boilers
Stem power plarrte
Installations for brick and roof the production
Cotiplete eq'.i a-ent for turbines and boilers
Steel pushers (Stehleehieber)
Equipment for food-processing industry
Equint for chemical industry
Pumps and compressors
Cment factories
Equipment for stranding (of wire)
Cable works
Cranes
Excavators (tCugelechaufler)
Generators
Switch panels
quantity ar Vaiue
40 units, 4- to 6-m
sizes
5 units, 2-m size
4,500 tens
3,500 tons
67 units
22 units
13 unite (to be delivered
is 1954)
?5 pillion (rubles)
2,000 tons
43.4 million rubles
52 mi:,Iion rubles
40 million rubles
7 nits tor red bricks
2 umitw. for P" f tiles
2 units
4.2 miUton [rubles)
2 units
2 railroad crane
2 eaatry arms .
4 lame flosti*6 arones
2 an') f1oati4W cranes
21 ore-tresw1ordia`
aras3ee
50 milli trgble+)
[Cost of, all araW? ]
2 unity
613,COO kva
two Information anilr?
able )
(llo inforaation avail-
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Cooodities
Tractors
Diesel motors
Ships' diesels
Presses
A-1 [this abbreviation known to apply both to a
pilot trainer and a continuous-wane telegraphy
Instrument) aevicea
quantity or Value
180 '[units]
200 units
go? [possibly units]
45 units (firm SAO
Henry Polo Heavy-
Machine Building
Enterprise, Erfurt)
Television sets
potentiometers
Buns.
Ethyl alcohol
Colloxylin (Kolloxolin)
Monochioroacetic and
Butanol
Plasticizer
Fluorspar
Amuonium sulfate
DDT
Phosphor-bronse vire mesh
Cellulose
?arlon cord
Furniture and it goods
Porcelain
Sugar 80,000 tone
In respect to Owl exports under this eReessnt, the M will probably be
able to deliver only up to 80 percent of the exports it bas contracted for,
seaming that the saterial supply to heavy industry is adequate. Because of
the initiation of the pew Cows* policy in the M, increased difficulties say
also be anticipated in the production of light industry for export. Industrial
L it-li t
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20 million rubles
23,400 tons
1C,000 tons
5,000 tons
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700 tone
29,0CO tons
1,500 tons
30,000 si m
12,000 tons
400 toes
10 pillion rubles
6.5 nillion.[tubles]
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plants of the light industry have been greatly neglected during the last few
years. Consequently, their products do not measure up to the required standards.
Anastas I. Mikoyan, Minister of Foreign Trade USSR, declared when the 1953 GDR-
USSR trade a&eement was signed that the USSR is very much interested in con-
sumer goods. After the signing of the agreement, the R announced at a con-
ference held in Berlin that it desired to import more consumer goods. Its short-
age of such goods was aggravated when USSR prices were lowered in April. 1953.
It is therefore necessary for the USSR to increase imports of these commodities
above the levels of previous years. The USSR demanded to know at that time how
Toward the end of `he negotiations, the USSR gave the impression that it
desired to ease the strain on the GDR economy. It lowered the deliveri z re-
quired under the State Treaty and frois.the ""f" account, and it was also eager
to fulfill the wishes of the GDR in regard to the 1953 Q R-USSR trade agree-
ments. The effect of world public opinion made itself felt, and Moscow vasty
changing its tactics. As a result of this new attitude of the USSR, officials
of the MAI discussed the possibility of concluding a special. 1953 trade Agree-
merit with the US'R which world provide for 500 million rubles' worth of addi-
tional OR imports fr is possible that MAX will make overtures
of this type to Moscow.
As a result of the comes in the GDR economic plan made in June 1953, new
negotiations will doubtless have to take plate between the f2DR and the USSR.
For the Gi)R is in ni position to deliver before 31 December 1953 all the
commodities it contracted for ?n the agreement of 28 April ?.953 plus the back-
log remaining from the 1952 trade agreement. Kurt Gregor, QDR Minister of
Intra-German and foreign Trade, stated chat an additional import of 50C million
rubles' worth of csnoumer- goods from the U NR to the GDR was planned. However,
the GDR can under no circumstances do without the imports of rolling-mill prod-
ucts, copper, lead, etc. In view of the add?ticns,i GDA imports and the 93ZtIM
gated cuts in OR axpcrts, the USSR will have to emend credit to the GAR.
8.,t?Q,A,s~
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