AFGHAN-SOVIET TRADE NEGOTIATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800280009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 By -- 4 July 1950 the Afghan Trade flission, which had been in Mo -cow since
April, had not reached final agreement with the o--r.ets over t'f',e Barter
'T'rade Agreement which they were negotiating.*
2. An official of the Afghan r.inistry^ of I'Tntional 71cononry, who is handling all
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the queries which are being reed back to Kabul, stated th.:it the
Fission would probably return Lo Kabul in early August.**
The same official stated that -!.n the barter agreement t^hich he hoped would
finally be signed, Afghan raw ncterials such as wool and skins would
hare to be suprlied by private uoripanies. lie also said that Vie delay in
the negotiations was partly cased by the fact that questions concerning
prices had continually to be referred to the companies concerr.t.;d by the
;Tinistry of Economy.
4. Luring the reeks preceeding 14 July, several points raised in communications
from the '.;ission in 'oscor had been referred to the Afghan Cab-net.
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Two previous Afghan-4 oviet Tarter Trade .fir:-eerents
were signed in Kabul. The f Irst, on 5 flovember 1947 prov---dod for
5,553 natric tons of Afghan wool (value: 12,624,7635 in c::chang
for 5,500 metric tons of ov..et gasoline for the period ending June
1948. The second, on 14 August 1948, provided for 6,600 rr.~tric tons
of Afghan wool (value: '3,259,400) in exchange for 3,000 r.-?otrie tons
of oviet gasoline for the ,aericd ending ; eptenber 1949. .n both cases
the U:'-`!R was to provide in addition an unspecif5ed amount ,-f cotton
piece goods, sugar, kerosene oil,, metal, building rriateriai consumer
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_ Goa According to a TAB'.! report, the negotiatic~';s were
cone] uded by 27 July 1950, at which time the Afghan delega .es left
%loscow.
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL In accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
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