SUGAR AGREEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013600010010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2002/08/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457RO13600010010-3
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FEB 1952
;,,,CLASSIFICATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY East Germany/Czechoslovakia/Poland
SUBJECT Sugar Agreement
DATE OF
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1. At the beginning Of February 1952 a sugar agreement was concluded betwe r t'Ie
German Peoplets Republic (Dm),* Poland, and Czechoslovakia. By this agreeme_rt
a Sugar Commission was created,. with its seat in Berlin, on Friedrichstrasse,
2, The D was entrur ed with the control and apportionment of the sugar proriucti(rn
of the three countries, in order to prevent mutual price cutting and insure
coordination of selling in the world market.
The deteruines the allotment of quotas for domestic and foreign con.sutq)tion,
The entire sale of the sugar of the three coun'tries' on the world :rket is
conducted through the DDB. If one of the countries wishes to supply sugar as r;;n
Vxahange in a commercial deal abroad,. it requires the approval of the Sugar
Commission in Berlin.
4., The total sugar recovery of the three countries at the present time is about
180,000 tons, from which up to now., the DDR has been able to sell only about
4,000 tons abroad.
5 The three countries hoped to regulate the price of sugar by common action in the
world market. In January 1952, the DDR asked i44 dollars der ton on the world,
market, then through over-expectancy went back to 62 pounds per ton. Because the
sugar could not be disposed of at this price, the price was lowered to 118 dol._ara
per ton in May 1952. At this price 20,000 tons were sold to the Near East at the
end of May 19 52.
6;: The etfTort to dispose of a large part of the sugar through the interzonal trade with
West Germany fell through. The Poles and the Czechs are greatly disturbed by the
complete failure of the sugar convention
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