INFORMATION ON GDR FOREIGN TRADE DURING THE FIRST HALF OF 1951
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S_. _.. 3 CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL ParNTIf
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY German Democratic Republic
SUBJECT Economic - Foreign trade
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily, semiweekly newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED GDR; Switzerland
DATE
PUBLISHED 3 Jan - 13 Jun 1951
LANGUAGE German
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFF[CTI NO THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF TN[ UNITED STATES WITHIN THE YIANING OF SS FIO MAD[ ACT t0
"AUTH
U. 3 C.. 31 AND Si, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION ON TN[ RSD EILATION
NI\ITIO \T TL WS IN REPRODUCTION Of THIS FORM 111 FAONI ITED. II PRO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
DATE DISTOCq Sep 1951
NO. OF PAGES 5
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
INFORMATION ON GDR FOREIGN TRADE
DURING THE FIRST HALF OF 1951
[Numbers in parentheses refer to appended source s-7
From 1 February to 21 March 1951, 21,615 tons of wheat and barley arrived
from the USSR in the Reichsbahn district of Magdeburg.
On 26 and 27 March, 35 carloads of beef and pork were received from the
USSR in Frankfurt/Oder. The meat was transshipped to Leipzig and Cottbus.(l)
In March 1951 a total of 11,301 tons of Soviet grain for the German Demo-
cratic Republic was unloaded in the port of Wismar. The grain had been brought
from .,aliningrad by the Soviet freighters Paer'in ,probably Pyarnu, Yura, Olonets,
and Voloche.yevsk.(2)
On 4 April, 83 carloads of beef and pork arrived in Frankfurt/Oder from the
USSR. A large part of the meat was transshipped to Berlin and to Land Mecklen-
burg.(3)
8 June
On 4, 5, and 6 June, 62 carloads of beef and port arrived in Sachsen from
the USSR. The meat was transshipped to Dresden, Zwickau, and Chemnitz.(4)
On 5 June, 58 carloads of pork and beef arrived in Frankfurt/Oder from the
Soviet Union. The Consumers' Import Clearing Office immediately expedited the
meat to Halle, Erfurt, and Zwickau.(4)
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Since the end of February, 28 Soviet ships have unloaded a total of 60,000
tons of wheat, oats, and barley in Rostock harbor.
Of the above ships, nine freighters unloaded 16,500 tons of grain during
May alone.(5)
Machine, Tool, and Equipment Exports
31 January
The people-owned Scharfenstein Plant is to produce, mainly for export, two
newly developed refrigeration units. These are a household refrigerator with
an improved condensation coil and a considerably larger cooling area than other
models now available, and an ice cream freezer with two connected drums, which
produces up to 40 kilograms of ice cream per hour. (6)
3 February
The people-owned Precision Instruments Plant in Freiberg exports miners'
compasses to Bulgaria, mirror compasses to Czechoslovakia, and suspension the-
odolites for mine surveying to Sweden. China is interested in spirit-level
clinometers and theodolites. Drum-type ship's sextants are being produced for
use in the German Democratic Repuolic. The plant, which converted to the use
of light metals in the manufacture of instruments, exports about 5.7 percent of
its total output.(7)
17 February
The people-owned Nagema Plant in Goerlitz-Weinhuebel is turning out air-
conditioning units for Bulgarian spinning and weaving mills now under construc-
tion.
The Nagema plant also exports air-conditioning units to Poland.(8)
21 February
The Plamag Factory In Plauen has completed a second 96-page high-speed
rotary press for Poland. The first such machine was delivered in 1950.
The press has six 16-page printing units and four folding units. A new-
type color-printing device is employed; the color is regulated from the out-
side. The rotary press turns out 320,000 six-page newspapers per hour. In-
stallation in Warsaw is to be completed by 1 May.(9)
25 March
Ten Universal milling machines, the first installment of an extensive ex-
port order, have been shipped to the USSR by the people-owned Wanderer Milling-
Machine Works in Chemnitz.(10)
28 March
At the 1951 Leipzig Spring Fair the people-owned Wanderer Milling-Machine
Works (Chemnitz) booked double the amount of export orders received at last
year's fair.
Eighty percent of the orders were for shipments to the USSR and the people's
democracies, the balance for exports to Sweden and the Netherlands.(l)
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Sizeable export orders for a newly developed high-grade clinical thermom-
eter have been received by the Glassware and Ceramics Division of the DANA (Ger-
man Foreign Trade Agency).(11)
3 February
The internationally established Blue Hand brand slate pencils from the
Steinach quarries in Thueringen are again greatly in demand for export. During
the war Portugal had captured most of the market outlets.
Large sums were invested recently in improvements at the Steinach quarries,
and the output has been increased.
Apparently slate products are of significance for the expansion of the East
German export program.(7)
24 February
The Emil Otto Company in Magdeburg has received orders for chemical products
from Sweden and Czechoslovakia.
The plant produces high-grade soldering, welding, tinning, and blanching
agents in quantities sufficient for domestic requirements and export, notably
to Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia.
Other products manufactured for export include flux, packings, bronzing,
calibration assemblies for measuring instruments, and tinning agents. These are
shipped to Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, and Finland.(12)
3 0 March
Under existing trade agreements, East Germany imported 108,000 pairs of
leather shoes from Czechoslovakia and 10,000 from Hungary. The shoes were sold
to workers in Land Mecklenburg.(13)
8 June
Twelve carloads of uncombed wool from the People's Republic of China have
arrived in Leipzig for further processing. This makes a total of 200 tons of
uncombed wool and 35 tons of camel hair received from China within the past
few days. Other shipments of animal hair and raw silk have also been r_ceived.
(14)
During the last third of May, 20 additional carloads of raw cotton were
received from the USSR by the Leipzig Baumwollspinnerei (Spinning Mille). This
brings the total cotton received from the USSR in May to 60 carloads.(15)
Trade Agreements With Sweden and Czechoslovakia
Under a trade agreement which expires 30 June 1951, the German Democratic
Republic is to supply Sweden with mining and chemical products, stockings and
socks, rayon-wool materials, zippers, insulating tape for industrial use, cellu-
lose textiles, laces, carpets, upholstering material, cotton towels, iron and
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metal goods. nu,':.ing rifles, needles for textile n~achiDes, macarts tools, instruments p roce
tri^.l and textile machines as well as surgicalaccessories and spare ' ssing,
, and industrial use, paper
and apparatus for scientific, machines with accessories and spare parts, sanitary
and lnding niters, long-carriage machines, standard typewriters,
printing
equipment, portable typewriters, bookkeeping machines, cameras and projectors,
machines, chemical porcelain,
musculating and billing electrical supplies, hotochemicals, instrume musical lenses, glsaSs n for`etorageebattery casings, i.solaters, p
optical lenses, glass picture and dolor film, medical and other
photographic plates and paper, earthenware, pottery, laboratory and other
thermometers, household porcelain, field gfaedi,
s
Jena glass for industrial and technical purposes, household glass, Jena feeding
bottles, toys, Christmas tree decorations, cars and accessories,
hides, athletic supports, etc.
? Prices will be quoted in Swedish kronor.
Shipments will be f.o.b. Sri DAHAW(German Foreign Trade .4gency)?
All contacts must clear chroug the DAEA ore, accounts via the Deutsche
by letters of credit will be made to
Notenbank in Berlin and the Skandinaviska Banker in Stockholm-(16
28 February.
A barter agreement involving goods worth 72 mill(GermanfForeigncTradedA~ncY)?
the A/B SUKAB, Stockholm? and DAEA
in Berlin between
until 30 June 1951
The agreement will be in effect ?(17)
4 A the
Under a barter agreement, the German Democratic Republic is to Supply
Association of Swedish Coal Importers with 150, 000 tons of brown coal briquettes, s,
p
at 6.75 billion kronor. Provisions have been made to shipments
to total up to 300,000 tons.(18)
8_ Juse 1 by Georg Handke,
A German-Czech trade agreement was signed on 4 June 1.95
a n Trade, and Antonin Gregor,
Gxegonge of
Fast German Minister of Inter-German an~ ForUnder the agr
Foreign Trade Minister for ma chothan slovakia. . Und
goods will be increased by
octant raw materials, mainly
ashipiimpl tartilizer , and capital goods.
^t German Democratic Repdbltr es, rtip ci p . (
al
for the e chemical and industrial and metail0.irgi zer ducts
Czechoslovakia will supP Y
SOURCES
1. Berlin, Taegliche Rundschau, 28 Mar 51
2. Ibid., 3 Apr 51
3. Ibid., 7 Apr 51
Ibid., 8 Jun 51
5. Ibid., 13 Jun 51 1 Jan 51
6. Berlin, Nachrichten fuel Auasenhandel, 3
7. Ibid., 3 Feb 51
8. Ibid., 17 Feb 51
9. Ibid., 21 Feb 51 Nuzr 51
10. Taegliche Rundschau, 25 Jan 51
11. Nachrichtefefuer Aussenhandel, 3
12. ibid., 2 51
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Taegliche Rundschau, 30 Mar 51
Schwerin, Landes-Zeitung, 8 Jun 51
Berlin, Nacht-Express, 11 Jun 51
Nachrichten fuer Aussenhandel, 7 Feb 51
Ibid., 28 Feb 51
Zurich, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, 3 Apru5151
Potsdam, Maerkische Volksstimme,
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