ECONOMIC-FOREIGN TRADE BIOGRAPHIC

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 186
• Publication Date: March 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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MAR 1952
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SUBJECT Economic - Foreign trade
Biographic
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Athens
DATE
PUBLISHED Dec 1952
LANGUAGE Greek
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Deltion too Ersborikou kai Viomihanikou Epimelitiriou A.thinon.
TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE ATHENS
AND WARSAW CHAMBERS OF CO10MERCFE
LComment; The 'following information give;; details about the trade
between Greece and Poland, as well as lists of goods exchanged. and the
names and addresses of Polish import and export organizations involved--7
Following the announcement that a trade agreement was signed between the
Chamber of Commerce of Athens and the Chamber of Co^~?.orce of Warsaw on 22 October
1952, many meetings took place in the Athens Chamber of Commerce, as well as at
the Ministry of Trade, to find the most appropriate way of executing this agree-
ment in its entirety and in the shortest possible time.
The following persons participated at the meetings which took place in the
Athens Chamber of Commerce K Konstantinou, president; l.. Golemis, vice-presi-
dent; A. Varvagiannis, general director; and St. Katnoulis, director of trade,
all representlug the Athens Chamber of Commerce. Also participating were P_ Lozos,
vice-president of the Piraeus Chamber of industry and Commerce; N. Kostantinidis
and Skouteropoulos, counselors to the Firaeus Chamber of Industry and Commerce;
G. Papadimitrakopoulos and. 11. Touttatos, president and vice-president, respectively,
of the Panhellenic Association of Exporters; Alarranis, president of the To-
bacco Trade Federrtion of Greene; and A. Bardns, rep.esenting the Association of
Greek Manufacturer At the meettn?= which took place at the iinistry of Trade,
under the chairmanship of I. Pnraskevc,poulos, the former Fh iste.r of Trade, A.
TrlantafyLlis, General rirector, and I. Ioannou, Director of ttre miristr?y, par-
ticipated, in addition to thp persons rmuntitnod. above.
On 7 Ilrvember 1952, the. Athena Chamber I,a Commerce submitted, a note to the
Ministry of Trade proposing that a special commit tee C.~; med. t . l i lies up the
execution of thin -?_-
The note proposed that the committee be composed. of the presidents, or their
alternates, of the Athens and Piraeus Chamberu of industry and Commerce, the Pan-
hellent.c Association of Exporters, the '1 bocce Trade Fedc:ation, the Association
of Greek Manufacturers, the General tirec-t.or of Trade, and his alternate from
the Ministry of Trade.
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Texts of the trade agreement were sent to the rest of the Chambers of
Commerce and Industry of Greece, the Panhellenic Association of Exporters, the
Tobacco Trade Federation of Greece, the Association of Greek Manufacturers, the
Union of Trade Associations of Greece, the Trade Associations of Athens, Piraeus,
and Salonica, and the Associations of Trade Representatives of these latter cities.
On 26 November 1952, Th. Kapsalis, Minister of Trade, in a note to the
Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that he agreed that a special com-
mittee should be set up to help carry out the trade agreement. He said that he
was appointing loannis Ioannou, alternate General Director of the Ministry of
Trade, as representative to the special committee and Efth. Anagnostopoulos,
commercial advisor of the ministry, as his alternate.
The following tables give data on products to be exchanged between the two
countries, as Drell as the lists of Polish import and export companies partici-
pating in the agreements
(on the condition that Greek tobacco
will meet the quality demands of the
Polish importers)
Rice
500
Wines and alcoholic beverages
Dried fruits
1,300
Fresh fruits
700
Edible olive oil
150
Nut oil for industrial purposes
Sponges
Tannic extracts (Vallonea)
Raw hides of small animals
Iron ore
50,000
Zinc ore
2,000
Pyrite
30,000
Emery in powder form
300
Cotton
600
Cotton thread
Miscellano-c+!!e
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850,000
300,000
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Dollars
Cattle products 200,000
Sugar 600,000
Eggs 200,000
Lumber (sawn) 750,000
Lumber for boxes 150,000
Boxes 100,000
?evsprint 200,000
Cigarette paper, wrapping paper, and other kinds of paper 100,000
Paper pulp 100,000
Coal 850,000
(on the condition that the Polish coal will meet the
quality demands of the Greek importers)
Zinc oxide 30,000
Carbonate of soda 100,000
Miscellaneous machines 250,000
Measuring devices (with the exception of hydrometers) 100,000
Miscellaneous textiles 50,000
Glassware, clayware, and porcelain goods 50,000
Miscellaneous 300,000
Table 3. Polish Import Organizations
(Notes Except where otherwise indicated, telegraph addresses are the
same as the organization names.)
The following Polish firms import the Greek products listed:
Firm Product
Centralny Zarzad Przemyslu Tytoniowego Tobacco
(Central Administration of the Tobacco
Industry)
Nowy Swiet k, Warsaw
Telegraph address, Cenzatyt
DALSPO
Filtrowa 61. Wav se
Ricc, ciiiule olive
.oil, wines and. alco-
holic beverages, dried
fruits, fresh fruits
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Jasna 10, Warsaw
VARIMEX
Wilcza 50/52, Warsaw
SKORIMPEX
Piotrkovska 260, Lodz
CENTROZAP
Plehiscytowa 36, Katowice
IMPEXMETAL
Ligonia 7. Katowice
TEXTILDWORi
22 Lipca 24, Lodz
CETEBE
Narutowicza 13, Lodz
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Nut oil for industrial
purposes, emery
Tannic extracts, hides
of small animals
Iron ore, pyrite
Zinc ore
Cotton
(Notez Except where otherwise indicated, telegraph addresses
same as the organization names.)
Cattle products,
eggs
ANIMEX
Pulawaka 14, Warsaw
ROLIMPEX
Hibnera 5, Warsaw
PAGED
Bracka 4, Warsaw
PAPE.XPORT
Walpolna 50, Warsaw
Centrala Handlu Zagranicznego
(Central Office of Foreign Trade)
Kosciuszki 30, Katowice
Telegraph address, Weglokoks
CIECH
Jasna 10, Warsaw
METALEXPORT
Mokotowaka 49, Warsaw
Telegraph address, Metalex.
CbiEBE
Narutowicza 13, Lodz
Krodytoka 4, Warsaw
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Lumber, lumber for
boxes
Newsprint, cigarette
paper, wrapping pa-
per, other kinds of
papez, paper pulp
Zinc oxide, carbonate
of soda
Miscellaneous machines;
measuring devices (with
the exception of hy-
drometers)
Glassware, clayware,
and porcelain goods
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