TANNING EXTRACT INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001100250008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 25, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL IN EL.UGENCE GROUP
WTELLIGENCE REPORT
Extract Industry
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X657. ~4 November 1947
RAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT
DISTRIBUTION
TA ! 'WAR I NAVY
APPENDICS: 2
Post-war production amounts to only about 60 percent of the 191't0 figure.
u os tavia, thus, now has a smaller balance available for export after meeting
internal requirements, than was the case before the war. Post-war eaorts
am xtent in fact to only 40 percent of total production an compared with 80 percent
`_ore the war.
""lie direction of exports has not changed materially since befo re the ''a
t.'- wt having been r u x ed with the country's natural, markers, i.e. Cz
av sa.s y Hungary, Poland, Rimania, Bulgaria,, Russia and Geru ny. Post-war
- ,ta to Germany have no far been restricted to the Russian -occupied acne.
a` ce quality. of the tanni.ng extract manufacture d in Yugoslavia since the war
-as been considerably lower than that of the pre-war product because of a 50X1-HUM
_ n pLet lack of c4uebracho supplies and a she
rtagq of chestnut
is o s ng to lack of roforeatatlon. Before the war, 60 percent of the raw
.?iai used annually by the industrir consisted of chestnut bark. The tannin
content of the saleable product Jr- ap' ro tely 61.E percent.
d& central sal ling a ency for the prod acts of the Yugoslav tanning extract factories
e founded as long ago as 1924. Al]. five of the factories, a rcepttng that at
vnica, were seized by the Ooverr an , after the recent war on grounds of conabo?.
A ion of their owners with the (}erma:is. The factory at ,Sevnicse, was nationalized
Z_ c . December 1946.
a er the regime of nationalization tie production of . the in itry is controlled
he Govern nt organ i ation known as ;he Directorate for Che cal Industr a.
:-!h' i.r .ustryt s exports are controlled by the Government sales agency known as F
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An unwritten agreement existed before the war between Yugoslavia and the three
other European tanning extract industries,
regarding the foreign markets to be supplied by each of them. The
,greement.was applied only during those periods when a large surplus was available
for export. The shortage of tanning extract since the war has made a renewal of
the agreement unnecessary up to the prosent time. 50X1-HUM
An inferior substitute for the normal -taming extract is manufactured from pine
bark with an admixture of chemicals in a small factory at Medove (sic) near
Zagreb, and in a few other small facto?'ies mainly situated in Slovenia. The
total of this production may be estima-ed as equal to about eight percent of
the country's total production of normal taming extract. 50X1-HUM
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