CZECH FOREIGN TRADE POLICY UNDER THE NEW COURSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004400100006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 26, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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is to earn means for Vie pxayrent of purchases in the West which in-
Soviet dispensable for the countriesimpleanentation of the revised economic plans are of inthe
, As a result of the partial eeonordo blockade in-
poesed by the :lest in recent years (strategic zmterials) which forced
bst Bloc to develop
tize trade ace dependency of ti its own resources and industrial potential,
e Soviet satnI,ites on the test is now consi-
?erabl3? snagler tan it had been Ir-ediately after the war
the CzecScslovak
steel industry must either nave ad uste it
sun ferrochrome ldc? s production to the Fast (;er-
O:,X%c. frog North Koreantraw tat.'m nn' had started product,g fe:-roc!uoema
in COrlreCtion 'Jith CZ0Ch0310?/akia s el rre n?- e,r
are being sent aaroa as represents ves fcthe ~Cz oslovaY, n exportnir.
portagencies, T
hey are ro
il
s
y young men in their early thirties, -
lected for th
are CP rorbers it or not, expert Another novelty is that these expert negotiators
are no longer accor xan ed on their nlsszons by Part;r suxeerisors
The Partial shifting of erphasis frog. heavy to light it ustry does
not
ear, that the carital investment program of the Czechaelo,3k fovea rsent
has been cor^rleter*,. It has been slightly reduced in score and Intensi-
ty but not abandoned, Its execution is affected by the new policy Dray
in the sense of priority which in sores cases now is being placed on the
rrociuction of roods earmarked for export as car,pensation far imported
raw material
is,
1 Comment; TYPe of plane and
spec fie by source. Place of manufacture is not
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