ECONOMIC - EXPORTS, IMPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600230194-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 194
• Publication Date: May 26, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAF I CY
INFORMATION ;FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Economic - Exports, imports
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Budapest
DATE
PUBLISHED 3-.13 Apr 1949
LANGUAGE
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Hungarian news
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
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DATE DIST.46 May 1949
NO, OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
60 MILLION METERS OF TEXTILES FOR EXPORT -- Szabad Nep, No 83, 10 Apr 49
Textile industry exports have increased greatly since the beginning of
the threi-year plan. The value of cotton industry exports from 1 Ahguat191+6
to 30 April 1947 was 48,500,000 forinte, while exports for the first 9 months
of the plan were already 134 million forinte. At the be13_aning of the three-
year plan exports by the woolen goods industry were small. During the first
9 months of. the plan, we have already exported goods valued at 12,300,000
forints. Silk industry exports were also increased by 10,500,000 forinte in
the first 9 months of the plan.
This great increase in exports was made possible by the trade agree-
ment with the USSR. Our plants will manufacture 60 million maters of textile
goods a year for export.
Et?iNtT OF ADJMI]M PO 17URE -- Szabad Nep, No 84, 12 Apr 49
Office furniture, a new product of the Hungarian aluminuri industry,
has reached the export market, Russia, England, the Netherlands, Argentina,
and Israel have requested samples.
The first o-,der, from Ragland, was filled by the Alufa NV Factory.
ia-aei ordered 150 pi'eee and these are already being specially crated for
overseas shipment.
The Ferunion NV, which promotes exports, is negotiating with Austria,
India, and South Africa regarding shipments of aluminum furniture.
Hungarian furniture is being exhibited in Russia, Czechoslovakia, and
Ttaly.
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cycle. It has recently reduced theprcduction cost to such an extent that
In addition to motorcycles for export, the Manfred Weiss Factory is
cubic-tenti meter :otorcycles to all parts of the world. Large orders have
ali3&../ been. received from Holland and many other countries.
The Manfred Weiss Motorcycle Factory at Ceepei will export its new 125-
Last year Hungary exported 900,000 kilograms of medicina: herbs valued
1940 SPORT OF MEDICfllAL HAS -- Szebad Nep, No 85, 13 Apr 49
at 5 million forinte in foreign ezc,',ange.
The,Gy ogynovenykiserleti Intezet (Medicinal Herb Experimental Institute) is
performing experiments to produce a new species of digitalis which will have
all the beet; characteristics of the various species of digitalis.
The rural villagers gather some of the gild plants, such as the camellia,
the jimson weed, the stinking nightshade, and the deadly nightshade and sell
them to the authorities at a set price. The Meson weed, stinking nightshade,
and deadly nightshade are used to make n.ddicines. for the eye and for mental
treatments. large-scale production of wild herbs would be made possible if the
collective farms were to.produce than.
Cy ogynovenykiserleti Intezet is also conducting experiments to produce
ergot. If those experiments are successful, we will no longer have to import
argot for our drug industry, and could even begin to export this prodoct.
X-RAY FI*.M 110 IrOHC.$R B4PORTED -- Viiagossag, No 78, 3 Apr 49
Until now Hungary did not manufacture X-ray film and had to Import it
at a yearly cost of $200,000. Successful experiments were conducted at the
Forte Factory at Van, and production has now started. According to the
Budapest Clinical X-Ray Institute, Hungarian X-ray film has surpassed the
Swiss and lags slightly behind the well-known Ilford film.
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