SOVIET-HUNGARIAN TRADE AGREEMENT CONCLUDED IN OCTOBER 1948

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700360007-0
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 15, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT `soviet-Hungarian Trade Agree at
-oncluded in October 1945
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PLACE
ACQUIRED
'DATE OF IN
Tons
Blast-furnace coke 400,000
Iron. ore 3009000
White pig iron 30,000
Foundry pig iron 30,000
Steel blooms 10,000
Ferro-silicon 11OO
Silicon metal 15
_ erro tungsten 260
Ferro-manganese 5,150
Ferro-vanadium 35
Ferro.molybdenwi 20
Ferro -chrome 680
Dynamo sheets 300
Transfor:sr shecats ,300
Nickel metal 4'00
Metallic arsenide (arsen-metal) 15
Pyrolusite (braun.atein) 50
Ohromdun acid 20
Sodium sulphide ( trium sulphuricurn) 200
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The Savriet-Hungatian Trade Agreement covers A pelted o 17 moatha. Ifi
1 July 1948 until 31 December 19490
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2,, The Hungarians ware willing to sell anti the Sodets to buy, Xiungarf
products to the value of " 1009000,000, On the other hands, the Soviet,.6-
could only offer Hungary suitable goods to a value of 50,000,000 to
60,000,000. The main difficulty during the negotiations was to bridge
this gap by finding aufficast Soviet goods which Hungary was willing to
accept. In the and a comprorAse via q p rood upon whereby the value of
deliveries from each side was fixed at 75,OOO,,OOO.>
,,b Soviet exports to Hungary. under this agreement includes
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CH1NTRAL IUTELLIGEHCE A0ETCY
Tona
Borax
,.~ so
Apatite-.concentrate
20,000
Lead
2,000
Zinc
2,000
Antimony
40
Cobalt metal
15
Wolfram aaydride
12
>odium nitrate (natrium nitricum)
15
ariumnchloride -
10
'timony oxide
75
I tlcium. bichromate
120
diem bichr-omate
230
A enio pentoxide
150
i t oxide
3
I .ice). oxide
5
. -ton
40,000
Bt: l; bearings - to 'a value of
250,000
Hungarian expo s to the USSR under the agreement include s
Aluj-ium blocks
1,500
Alum: ? 1.wn sheets
2, 500
Urrwrsid d tubes
750
Snail h,.ugo rails
2 s 000
Rai ly points
3 , 000
Rai lro A car axles
500
Daiixite
2 50,,000
Horizontal boilers (ship)
14
Locomotiv,., , type 0.5-?0
124
Smell gau o, Diesel locomotives
40
Gondola, c: ra
250
Railway cr' ties
Harbor ore. Los
15
Sets
Railroad car axles and wheels
400
Finished toZ- 6- le goods
Million dollars
Finished texti?,.e goods
17
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Hungary also agreed to deliver to the USSR within a period of three years
the following additional gnids a
Passenger, railway carriages
450
Locoxnsrtjvres type 0-5.0
026
Small. gauge locomotives type
P,T a4
204
Ti olloys f or mining purposes
500
TAillion dollars
Railway carriages brake equipment
Legotiations caring these i,tc= c.Z?e not canoluded until December 1945.
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