ECONOMIC - TRADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700210238-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 238
• Publication Date: March 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY IIVPORMA.TION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
REPORT NO.
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
CD NO.
Portugal
DATE OF
SUBJECT
Economic - Trade
HOW
DATE DIST.. f Mar 1953
PUBLISHED
Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED
Lisbon
NO. OF PAGES 2
DATE
PUBLISHED
20 - 29 Feb 1952
SUPPLEMENT TO
LANGUAGE
Portuguese
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
PARTIAL LIST OF 1951 PORTUGUESE EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
fumbersin parentheses refer to appended sources-7
Exports
Portugal Is total cork exports in 1951 reached 239,909 tons, including
the following items (in tons) :
Cork ooard 37,795
Insulating agglomerates 24,010
Shavings 42,460
Chips 51,986
Cork waste 28,467
Virgin cork 27,856
Cylindrical stoppers 3,636
Conical stoppers 2,989
Natural cork disks 1,318 (1)
In the category of naval stores, Portugal in 1951 exported 56,000 tons of
pitch and 10,400 tons of turpentine.(2)
Imports
In 1951, Portugal imported 36,178,361 kilograms of raw and seed cotton,
as follows (in kilograms):
Mozambique
Angola
Brazil
US
Egypt
Tanganyika
Belgian Congo
Other countries
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23,627,740
3,879,802
5,176,582
1,352,7131
119,783
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In 1951, Portugal imported .1,772 motor vehicles, as follows: 6,119
passenger vehicles, including 2,403 from England, 1,780 from Germany, 896
from France, 512 from the US (the most expensive ones), 336 from Ttaly, and
others from Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands; 2,927
cargo vehicles, including 2,020 from England, 529 from Germany, 314 from
France;' and others from the US, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Sweden, and the
Netherlands; 126 other vehicles, including 472 from England, and others from
the US, France, Sweden, Germany, .the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, etc.
In the some year, Portugal imported 506 tractors from England, the US,
Germany, Italy, France, etc.
Portugal imported a total of 172,809 tires in 1951, including 79,951 from
the Netherlands, 30,917 from Belgium, 22,299 from England, and 17,839 from
Italy-(3)
SOURCES
1. Lisbon, Jornal do Comercio, 29 Feb 52
2. Lisbon, Diario da Manha, 20 Feb 52
3. Jornal do Comereio, 25 Feb 52
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