EAST GERMAN TRADE AGREEMENTS FOR 1953

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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trade agreement has been concluded = 'iniand ansi fast Germany
for
?53 a?a;?. , a s in 1.952, tha et;chan ;e of t o?;ds will. ? ri val a ut ' 1?0t)C~ 00
doJ.7.a.z s., (Finland will supply, timber and cellulose, for East German
saricuettes and machinery? This agreement was concluded b_T.,~ c:i 7.
s,-oruest of the USSR and exceptiona:;_ly favorable prices were aceorc a,
r Finland,
cn hand?ie of Goods of the 10 5 agree.aent was scheduled to b about
? ,O z,OO0 Swedish kronor, Only 30 were ant of the 1952 trade agreeraertt
.? s_tided between. E,-1st Germany and Sweden was realized. , because weden
:.- used to accent certain List German prcctucts because of ir..ferior
=:uality and because the rrices as stated in the agreement were found
b Swedish firms to be excessively high,
s?a : , December 195 an. `ast German trade d =._eaat3m, with the
-onsent o:: iMoscow, went to ''gyot in order to conclude a trade apree-
i-,taxcr? was considered of prime political im?xartance, according
n Ifs t enl in East Germany were sill parading. As in 1952, the ota
inpa.ny and iiirector Vustav tley- r of the 3TA-K_' moensatio !TPA E rter'':
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"jade negotiations between the semi-official, S edi.sh tXKA-B T:.adr
?si.s agreement Egypt offered 20,.000 tons of cotton in exchange:
_. - t German deliveries which would include surer,. The USSR c
~_ . riaye renounced hoer ;;hare of these sugar sue;-lies to ena'i-d.e
Inv to export to rgyot the reruired u.r,unt,; Syman (u))
. agedij to b e L"oointed representatI.ve of tL the new .?'+?tr,':;,:ir CdV'-
oo Sc s i 3 ?s ~ait~' C eh inic . ri."tter'i,11.s- an fi`p^7ont']TZ "+l!. t? fait
Cb: 1953 East German deliveries to ?olai d would fndL i eY rarachi
fowl 390-000.0W rubles for each country, According to the aP're(, -
i=c':F:?-ir 1952, a trade agreement was concluded between "Oland
k }(i'3~ i y ct e:. 4 :3~::.., rt .thee vcluma i. t t r,^ e_' w':r
sP 290,000:.M) r-nt e; , In aCditicri.,vast Ue?-manv wat- to
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and efforts were being made to meet these requirements by imports from
to U., 3?R, East Gerrmany, on the other hand was unable to supply to
Poland the desired eczuin- nt for chemical pants, though the S'uppl.l S
bn _'rovided for in ion'-term trade agreements in coordjx.t:on
6 be :ivedear .ylan., :it first e the :files even tJiroatenad to break
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f r '_'ct`ations the : e ezentat-{ve ? f East Ger any clc~cl ,.rz
iver the equinment.,and only the very able negotlaton tactics
State Secretary Hans Paul:_ 18nter-:=ill .n.s Succeeded in arvtting th m t 4 i gc)
x-,:aat GArvi,=sn Aer~nnni ew schedule was a.lleu ly hit tart.cu? rly hard
: ~e reduci en of` 300 ,000 tong of aard coal coke since the heap lrx
ci; ~;t r will now have to nrojylce 700 OW to 750,0000 Win: of ? roi n coal
I auettes? East G a r=.eLll pay 65 x es per ton for the .._ ton
we nrorrd.sed by Poland, thou the world market arice is 45 ruble:;
ner ton.
The East German trade negotiations in 11bacow were conducted by ; .nister
Gregor and the chief of the twin Foreign Currency Decaartment U-ich
c r re ,son ,, `mere were special difficulties in obtaining the re-
quired supplies of nonferrous metals and forage from the 113 0 In
these talks East Gtr was also to reach -.greenent concerning a.
considerable number of unfilled Soviet orders,
6,, East German trade negotiations with Bulgaria, Ciechoslaeak3a;, and
Rumania had started. Talks with Hungary concerning the 1953 trade
agreement did not Tr ogress.
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