RUMANIAN TRADE BROCHURES

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OF THE RUMANIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
Rumanian Foreign Trade Companies at the 24th International Fair
of Milan ........ .....................................
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Information ................................... ............
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Foreign Trade of the Rumanian People's Republic at the End
of the First Five Year Plan for the Development of the
National Economy ......................................
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Rumanian Industry - Maker and Exporter of a Wide Range of Farm
Machinery and Implements .............................
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A High Quality Insulation Material - Romizolin ..............
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Seasonable Foods ..... ....................................
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Type EC-2 Electric Truck ..................................
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Rumanian Hurricane Lanterns ("Globus") ....................
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 BUY IN RUMANIA:
+ PORC, frozen or refrigerated, in halves of 30 kg or more, with or without head
and legs, without fat and inner organs.
+ BEEF, frozen or refrigerated, in quarters of 45 kg more, without inner organs.
Meat of absolutely healthy animals having undergone veterinary control both
before and after slaughtering.
+ LIVE ANIMALS, Swine of various races: York, Basna, Mangalitza from 100 kg
upwards; fat and half fat animals, and animals for meat. Oxen for slaughtering of
extra and superior qualities and for meat products.
Sheep of all races weighing 32 to 35 kg each, of the fat and half fat quality.
SUPPLIED by:
"PRODEXPORTai Bucharest, Str. Gabriel P&1 Nr.- 5-7 4' Phone: 6.30.17; 3.88.33
Cables: ?P r o d e x p o r t". B u c It a r e s t
 INFORMATION BULLETIN
,OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE RUMANIAN
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
ISSUED MONTHLY IN ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, FRENCH AND GERMAN
'EDITORS: THE CHAMBER OP COMMERCE OP THE RPR, BUCHAREST, BD. NICOLAE BALCESCU
Nr. 22, CABLES: tCAMROM. PHONE: 5.24.29; 3.12-03: S?13.99
RUMANIAN FOREIGN TRADE COMPANIES
AT THE 24th INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF MILAN
Between April, 12-27 a number of Rumanian foreign trade companies will show
samples of their commodities at the International Fair of Milan.
Organized with a view to further contributing to the development of economic rela-
tions with Italy, the participation of Rumanian foreign trade companies In the 24th interna.
tional fair of Milan will moreover continue an old tradition. As early as the beginning of the
XXIh century Rumania was among the countries which participated in various Italian inter-
national fairs. ?)
The tradition of Rumania's participitation in the International sample fairs organized
In Italy Illustrates the existence of long standing commercial relations set up between
the peoples of the two states centuries ago. The passing of years does not hinder the develop.
ment of traditional economic relations, on the contrary these relations can be widened In
the interest of the national economy of both countries. Indeed this is the very end the Ruma-
nian-Italian trade and payment agreement is meant to further. This agreement signed on
the 20th of November 1950 and which came Into force a month later is still In force,
Its validity having been extended every year by tacit consent. Under this agreement the main
commodities which can be exchanged by the two countries are: timber and other wooden
products, kiln charcoal, grain, avicultural products and by-products, brooms, medicinal
herbs, windowglass, marble, fuel-oil, etc., to be exported by Rumania, citrus fruits, cork,
machines and apparatus, chemicals, textiles, woollen fabrics and articles, hall- and roller.
bearings, dyestuffs, naval engines, etc, to be exported by Italy.
The signing of this agreement has greatly facilitated the development of Rumanian-
Italian economic relations. Compared with the first half of 1951 the exchange of goods
between the Rumanian P. R. and Italy in the first half of 1955 represented an Increase
of 303.2 %. In the opinion of Rumanian economic circles however this increase only
represents a small fraction of the real possibilities of trade exchanges of the two countries,
considering the great export capacity of both the Rumanian P. R. and Italy. Our
country's participation in the international sample fair of Milan will therefore be a good
opportunity to extend the direct contacts between Rumanian and Italian economic circles,
to discuss and establish the possibilities of widening bilateral trade.
From among the great number of Rumanian export commodities available, at Milan
this spring we shall exhibit only samples of the products which are of special interest to
the Italian and the West European markets. Among these products we should firstly
mention: fresh and tinned meat, poultry, eggs, fresh and preseved vegetables and fruit,
cheese-and other milk products, wine, a Tzuica o (plum brandy) and other alcoholic
beverages, animal and avicultural by-products, modern confections in Rumanian folk-art
style, Rumanian folk-art dress articles, Rumanian carpets, wooden carvings, etc.
*) The first participation of our country in the international sample fairs organized in Italy
dales back to 1906 ("The Universal Exhibition of Milan").
 The visitors to our pavilion will thus have the opportunity to ascertain that there are
means of widening trade relations between the Rumanian P. R. on the one hand and Italy
and the West European countries generally on the other. These means are even more
evidenced by the other well known Rumanian products not exhibited In the pavilion but
which are customarily Iniported by various countries of Western Europe. Among these
products we cite: timber and wooden products, carbon black and other chemicals, petroleum
products and especially fuel-oil, various building materials, glassware, medicinal herbs,.
pacification grains, fodder and other agricultural products, etc. At the same time the
existence In the Rumanian P. R. as well as in West European countries of metallurgical
and machine building industries does not preclude the possibility of a bilateral exchange
of the products turned out by these industries.
It is the common practice of Rumanian foreign trade to use exports to a country as
o means of payment for Imports from that country.
This practice facilitates the development of mutually advantageous economic relations
and our country would like to carry on such relations with any country actuated by the
same desire.
The Rumanian-Italian trade and payment agreement being a clearing agreement
makes possible cooperation on the very basis of exchange mentioned above (exports to
Italy as a means of payment for imports). If apart from this advantage offered by the
agreement In force to the firms of both countries, we also consider the wide range of
commodities which can be exchanged by these firms, the possibility to develop Rumanian.
Italian trade relations is clearly evidenced. Moreover it should be borne in mind that both
Rumanian and Italian consumers have known Rumanian and Italian commodities for
hundreds of years and have always appreciated and preferred them to others. As far
as new Rumanian or Italian export goods are concerned there are many signs that
they are appreciated by Importers.
In participating In the international sample fair of Milan Rumanian foreign trade
companies wish to set up new mutually advantageous trade relations and to widen the existing
ones. They are sure firms in Italy and in other participating countries share the same
desire and that the negotiations which will be carried on will result in a new contribution
towards strengthening peaceful cooperation among nations.
LIFTING MACHINES
+Travelling crane with grab, lifting
capacity up to 10 tons and gauges
from I I to 32 m.
+Tower crane, on rails. lifting capac.
ity 1.5-25 tons, height of lifting
10-25 m.
+ Mast crane on rails, lifting capacity
0.4-I ton, height of lifting 8-18 m.
+ Movable crane on wheels, lifting
capacity 0.5 ton, height of lifting
4.5 an.
+ Stationary and mobile Derrick cranes,
lifting capacity 7.5 to 35 ton, length
of jib 20 an to 32 m.
SUPPLIED at short notice. in advance
ageous conditions by:
Bucharest, Str. Gabriel PEri No. 2
Phone: 4.97.44; 5.16.09
Cables: u Indexport? - Bucharest
HIGH QUALITY
LOW PRICES I
+ Beech plywood
careful execution, guaranteed quality
+ Bentwood furniture
highly specialized work, man-
ufactured in serial or by special
ordered units
N
linmanian foreign trade State company
Bucharest, Plata Rosetti, No. 4
Prompt answers to inquires and quick delivery
 Signing of Protocol Relating to the Exchange
of Commodities Between the R.P.R. and the
USSR in 1956
As a result of the negotiations that were
carried on, on February it, 1956 a Protocol
was signed in Moscow, relating to the exchange
of commodities between the Rumanian People's
Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics in 7956.
The Protocol provides for a constant increase
in the volume of exchanges as against 1955.
The Rumanian People's Republic will supply
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with
petroleum products, fishing craft, barges, fur-
niture, meat and other goods which the Ruma-
nian People's Republic has supplied to the So-
viet Union also in the past.
The Soviet Union will supply the Rumanian
People's Republic with cotton, rolled steel
goods, iron ore, coke, non-ferrous metals,
industrial equipment, agricultural machines,
motor-vechicles and other goods required
by the national economy of the Rumanian
People's Republic.
Signing of Trade Agreement Between the
Rumanian People's Republic and Burma
On February '7, 1956 a three years trade
agreement was signed at Rangoon between
the Rumanian People's Republic and the Bur-
mese Union. The agreement provides for the
development of economic and trade relations
between the two countries on the basis of
the principle of equality and mutual advantages.
Under this agreement Burma will export to
Rumania rice and other agricultural products,
minerals, teak wood, rubber, raw cotton and
other commodities, while the Rumanian
P. R. will supply Burma with oil-well drilling
and coal mining equipment, electro-technical
equipment, machine-tools, building equipment,
machines, tractors and other goods.
The agreement moreover includes a trade
protocol concerning the exchange of Burmese
rice and rice products for Rumanian commod-
ities.
The Rumanian P.R. will set up a commercial
mission in Burma with a view to facilitating
the implementation of the agreement.
The Rumanian P. R. is Ready
to Assist the Countries of Asia
In February the 12th scsssion of the U.N.O.
Economic Commision for Asia and the Far-
East was held in Bangalore.
During the discussions which followed
the report submitted to the session by the
Industry and Trade Committee, P. Silard obser-
ver of the Rumanian P. R., took the floor
showing in his speech that, as a result of the
constant increase in our economic potential
in recent years, our country's economic rela-
tions with foreign countries had been contin-
uously developed. He moreover emphasized
that Rumania was ready to impart her great
experience in the domain of geological pros-
pecting and the extraction of minerals to the
countries of Asia.
ROLLING STOCK
OF ALL TYPES
Locomotives for fast passenger trains
types 1 D2 and 2 CO;
Locomotives for freight trains,
types I EO, EO and 1 Cl;
Locomotives for shunting purposes,
type C, and type D, gauge 900
mm;
-Narrow gauge forestry locomot.
ives, type D, gauge 760 mm;
-Third class passenger cars;
-Tank cars, 50 ms on 4 axles;
-Special self-discharging trucks for
ores;
-Covered and uncovered freight
trucks of 50 and 25 t;
-Various freight trucks for narrow
gauge;
-Diesel locomotives for mine and
surface work;
-Trucks for mines and building
sites, etc.;
?MA$INIMPORT
Bucharest, Sir. M. Eminescu Nr. 10
Phone: 2.65.20 Cables:
?MA$INIMPORTu Bucharest
 Building of a Complex Works for Processing
,S)'ntbefic Rubber in' the Rumanian P. R.
In the vicinity of Bucharest intensive work
is underway on the building site of the big-
gest unit of our light industry: the complex
works for processing synthetic rubber. This
modern plant will consist of a mechanical
goods factory, a rubber footwear factory
and a rubber regenerating factory. The first
two factories and various annexes are being
built according to the blueprints of the Light
Industry Projecting Institute of the Rumanian
1'. R., and the rubber regenerating factory
,after designs made in the Soviet Union.
The new complex works covers an area of
300,000 sq. m., 65,000 sq. m. of which are
covered by buildings. The setting up of this
great plant is of outstanding importance for
the rubber processing industry of the Rumanian
P. R. According to the blue prints, in its
final stage the complex works will turn out
rubber articles in a quantity surpassing the
entire quantity produced by all the rubber
factories in the country.
In addition to imported machines the com-
plex works will also be fitted out with Ru-
manian made machines. The highly technical
machines and equipment of the complex
works will make it posible to mechanize the
entire process of production.
Rumanian Film Projectors
at International Sample Fairs
Film projectors are of recent manufacture
in the Rumanian P. R., yet the Rumanian
industry manufacturing such apparatus ("Tech-
nocin") has perfectly mastered the modern
methods of fabrication turning out excellent
quality apparatus excellently rendering both
sound and image.
The most perfect type of projector turned
out so far by the Rumanian factory "Tcchno-
cin" is the type T-z apparatus shown last
year. in our pavilions at the international sample
fairs of Izmir, Zagreb, Plovdiv and New
Delhi. At these fairs the Rumanian cinema
projectors were highly appreciated by foreign
experts. While the mass production of type
'F-z projectors for normal screen will continue,
"Teehnocin" is studying for the future the
possibility to adapt the type T-2 apparatus
for cinemascope and the manufacturing of
cinema projectors for village cinemas.
Rumanian made film projectors ate exported
by the ,Industrialexport" company, Bucharest,
str. Gabriel Peri No. z.
New Glassware Factory in the
Rumanian People's Republic
Recently the building of a new glassware
factory was begun in the Rumanian P. R.
Blue-printed by the Light Industry Projecting
Institute of the Rumanian P. R. the new fac-
tory will be one of the units of the complex
glassware and ceramic works to be built at
Albe;ti. The processes of production in the
new factory will be semi-automatic and its
output will be double the production of the
biggest glass factory in our country.
The main articles which will be turned out by
this new industrial unit will include house-
hold glassware and glass articles for the food-
stuffs and pharmaceutical industries.
The construction has moreover begun of
three modern canteens and three workers'
apartment houses as well as of the railway
embankment.
Commissioning of Fish Preserves
Factory of Tulcea
The fish preserves factory of Tulcea has
been commissioned recently. The blue-prints
of this factory were drawn up by the Projecting
Institute for foodstuffs problems of the Ruma-
nian P.R.
All the sections of the factory are fitted out
with imported or Rumanian-made machines of a
high technical level.
Near the main building of the factory are
located the thermic station, with boilers of
200 sq. its, each, a shop turning out 45-40,000
tins of various types in 8 hours, warehouses
and a perfectly equipped laboratory. The
power plant is already under construction and
shortly the building of the social and administra-
tion block will also begin.
The new fish preserves factory of Tulcea is
among the greatest fish preserves factories in
Europe turning out over 20,000 tins in each (S
hour) shift.
 Foreign Trade of the Rumanian Peoples Republic
at the End of the First Five Year Plan for the
Development of the National Economy
While successfully fulfilling its first Five-Year
Plan (1951-1955), our country has constantly
developed her economic relations with foreign
countries. In 1955 the volume of the Rumanian
P. R. 's foreign trade approximately doubled
compared with 1950. During the same period
the Rumanian foreign trade companies extended
our country reached a production of') 765,000
tons of steel, 575,000 tons of pig-iron, 567,000
tons of rolled goods, 6oo,ooo tons of iron
ore, 10,575,000 tons of crude oil, 9z,ooo tons
of sulphuric acid, z million tons of cement,
etc. As against 1938, at the end of 1955 the
value') of the machines turned out by the
Geographical repartitioning of the Rumanian P. R.'s foreign
trade during the first Five Year Plan for the development of
the national economy
their economic relations dealing with 62
countries as against 33 at the beginning of
the above mentioned period.
It is obvious that the exchange of goods
of the Rumanian People's Republic with foreign
countries could not have grown from year to year
if during the last decade a constantly increasing
material basis, influencing foreign trade, had
not been created in our country. This material
basis is today represented by an industrial
output 2.9 times greater than in 1938 (and
3.4 times greater than in 1948), by a harvest
of grain which already last year reached about
1z million tons against barely some 9 million
tons in 1938. From a mere agrarian annexe
to the industrially developed Western countries
before World War Two, at the end of 1955
Rumanian P. R. marked an increase of 832 %,
that of electro-technical goods 750 %, of
chemicals 540 %, etc.
The process of transformation of our economic
structure (from a backward agrarian economy
into a preeminently industrial economy) has
had and continues to have a considerable
influence on our country's foreign trade.
As concerns exports, for instance, in all
encyclopaedias and directories with international
circulation Rumania was shown as a supplier
of agricultural products, oil, timber, salt and
livestock. In 1938 industrial goods represented
only 1.7 % of the total volume of Rumania's
exports. Today the situation is altogether differ-
 em. In the export lists of the Rumanian foreign
trade companies are entered such products as
complete outfits for various factories, thermo-
power stations, naval craft up to 4000 tons
displacement, machine-tools for processing
metals, hoisting machines, road-building machi-
nes, electric motors and internal combustion
engines, motor-vehicles, tractors, farming ma-
chinery, various metal consumer goods, carbon
black, lacquers and enamel paints, paints,
dyestuffs, pigments and various other chemicals,
pharmaceutical substances, cement, window-
glass, , marble and other building materials,
glassware, etc. Moreover out country continues
to export her traditional commodities, but
in this sector too, the substantial economic
changes which have occurred in our country
are being felt. Today Rumania no longer
exports crude oil, our refineries making it
possible for us to process the entire quantity
of crude oil at home which is then supplied as
distilled products. The products of the other
branches of the Rumanian economy are also
sold at a constantly higher stage of industriali-
zation. Today alongside grain, we export
alimentary pastes, alongside timber, luxury and
serially made furniture, kiln and pile charcoal,
packings, naval and air sports craft and other
sports articles, etc.; and alongside veget-
ables, fruit and fresh meat -a wide range of
preserves.
The high quality of Rumanian commodities
and the advantageous conditions offered to
customers by the Rumanian foreign trade com-
panies cause the volume of goods exported
by the Rumanian P. R. constantly to increase.
Sector
1951
1956
Industry . . . . .
100
101
Petroleum . . . . .
100
200
Lumber . . . . .
100
148
Agriculture . . . .
100
111
Foodstuffs . . . .
100
145
The constantly growing Rumanian exports
(and consequently the permanent increase in
our means of payment) and the new line along
which our economy is developing have also
greatly influenced Rumania's imports. Prior
to World War Two the value of imported
machines and especially of complete outfits
for various industrial units represented only
a negligible percentage compared with the
total value of Rumanian imports. In that period
many a year passed without a new works, a
new factory or a new power station being
set up.
Today in this sector too the situation is
completely altered and in addition to the
equipment, machines, outfits and spare parts
produced at home, we use for fitting out or
refitting our industrial units a wide range of
imported goods, especially in order to hasten
the industrialization and development of our
national economy. During the first Five Year
Plan alone the Rumanian P. R. imported from
various European countries: 6 electric power
plants, 14 ore dressing outfits, a coal chem.
istry plant, a soda product plant, an agglomer.
ating plant, an electro-insulating material
factory, a roller- and ball-bearing factory, an
ammonia factory, a factory producing card
clothing, a mineral wool factory, a cotton
ginning station, a linters removing station, a
hemp and a flax rettery, a cigarette papa
factory, a milk powder factory, a fruit juice
factory, the complete equipment for the Buftea
film centre, etc. Moreover there were imported
thousands of machine-tools for processing
metals, various spare pans, motor-vehicles,
important quantities of raw materials, chemicals
fuel, consumer goods, etc. The growing import
possibilities of the Rumanian P. R. are made
plain by the following table which indicates
the trend of the principal commodities imported
by our country in 1955 as against 1951.
. Specification
1951
1965
Machines and equipment
for production (spare
parts included)
100
141
Raw materials (foodstuffs
excluded), materials and
fuel . . . .
100
130
Consumer goods. . .
100
240
 In the future both the import and export of
the Rumanian P. R. have great prospects of dev-
elopment. According to the provisions of the
second Five-Year Plan for the development of
our national economy, priority will be given to
the development of the industry of means of
production (whose output in 1960 will be
70-75 % above 1955) and especially to those
branches of heavy industry which have the
required raw materials available at home, such
as: the oil and chemical industries, power plants,
the metallurgy of iron, the non-ferrous metal
industry, the coal industry, etc. During the
period 1955-1960 our country's total industrial
production will grow by 60-65 % as against
1955. New factories, works and electric power
plants will be built; new oil-wells will be drilled,
new mines will be opened and the production
capacity of many existent works will be increased.
Priority development of the various branches
of heavy industry will ensure a constant increase
in the output of consumer goods and agricultural
production which in r96o will reach at least 15
million tons of grain. To this should be added
the possibility of using atomic energy (which
is cheap and practically inexhaustible) in various
sectors of our national economy' as a result
of the assistance received from the Soviet
Union and owing to important quantities
of raw material (uranium) available in our
country.
Influenced by this line of economic devel.
opment the structural make-up of our foreign
trade will become richer every year. Indus-
trial products at the highest technical level
will henceforth occupy a preponderant place
in our exports. At the same time the vast
economic construction work going on in our
country as well as the growing requirements
of the population will contribute towards
constantly increasing the absorption capa-
city of our home market and will favourably
influence the importation of a great variety
of commodities and the continuous develop-
ment of our economic relations with foreign
countries.
The Rumanian P.R. is prepared to co-
operate in the economic domain with any
country willing to do so while observing the
principle of equality, mutual advantages and
non-interference in internal affairs.
During the first Five Year Plan we develop-
ed our economic relations with the Soviet
Union and the countries of people's democ-
racy in Europe and Asia as well as with
the capitalist countries which have shown
interest in it.
At the end of our first Five Year Plan trade
with the Soviet Union held the first place in
the total volume of Rumanian foreign trade.
The Soviet Union supplied us in extremely
advantageous conditions with: complete out-
fits for electric power plants and for other
various plants and factories, machine-tools,
spare parts, rolled metal goods, cables, farm-
ing machinery, motor-cars, industrial and
alimentary raw materials, fuel, etc. AU these
products were paid for by us with goods spe-
cific to our country a great number of which
are produced today owing to the same
economic cooperation with the Soviet Union,
the latter not only supplying us with the
necessary means to manufacture them but
also putting at our disposal the respective
technical reference material, sending as
experts, training Rumanian experts in the
USSR, etc.
After the USSR the countries of people's
democracy of Europe and Asia held the second
place in our foreign trade. Alongside econ-
omic cooperation with the USSR, our country's
economic relations with the other countries
of people's democracy have proved to be
fruitful for the economy and the standard
of living of the respective nations, and contrib.
ute to the continuous prosperity of our
countries.
In 1954 the Rumanian P.R. resumed her
exchanges of commodities with the F.P.R. of
Yugoslavia, the neighbouring and friendly
country and is now carrying on such exchan-
ges on an ever larger scale. The trade agree-
ment concluded in Belgrade on March 24,
1954, the conventions referring to the resump-
tion of railway and air connections, ship-
ping on the Danube and especially the trade
agreement signed in Bucharest in January
1956 (which provides for a volume of ex-
changes double that of the previous agreement)
are important links in the resumption of
 the traditional multilateral connections bet-
ween the Rumanian people and the peoples
of the F.P.R. of Yugoslavia.
During our first Five-Year Plan our econ-
omic relations with the capitalist countries
have also gradually displayed an ever more
important development. In spite of the arti-
ficial barriers raised by certain Western cir-
des in the way of free trade among countries,
at the end of 1955, the volume of exchanges
of the Rumanian P.R. with the capitalist
countries was 2.5 times greater than in 1950.
In 1955 we carried on trade with 53 capitalist
countries and with 17 of them (Argentina,
Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France,
Greece, India, Indonesia, Iceland, Israel,
Italy, Lebanon, Norway, Switzerland, Syria,
Turkey) we had concluded trade agreements,
conventions or protocols. At the same time
the Rumanian foreign trade companies had
concluded conventions on a compensation
basis with private concerns in the German
F. R. ("Ostaussehuss") and Sweden ("Romano-
Sukab"). With the other capitalist countries
our exchange of commodities is being conduct-
ed on the basis of free transactions between
companies.
In proof of the mutual interest displayed
in the development of bilateral economic re-
lations, suffice it to mention that compared
with the first half of 1951 in the first half
of 1955 our commercial exchanges with Great
Britain, for instance represented 246.1 %,
with Argentina 113.0 %, with Austria 134.9 %,
Belgium 130.4 %, Denmark 311.0 0/", Switzer-
land 102.4%, Egypt 590.6 %, Finland
903.7 %, France 8og.2 %, the German F.R.
580.4 %, Italy 303.2 %, Israel 142.1 %, Hol-
land 386.1%, Turkey 668.z%, and our
commercial exchanges with Syria, Lebanon,
Irak, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait grew in
the first 1o months of 1955 by 612 % as
against the entire year 1951.
These few examples taken from among
the industrially developed countries as well
as from among the less economically developed
ones prove that, owing to its complex struc-
ture, the Rumanian economy has wide pos-
sibilities to carry on commercial exchanges,
with any country which desires it irrespec-
tive of its stage of economic development.
Indeed, it is common knowledge that in spite
of its relatively small territory, out country
has important and varied sources of raw
materials, a modem and many-sided industry
in full swing of development and a constantly
increasing agro-zootechnical production. Alt
these branches of Rumanian economic activ-
ity are in a position to supply a wide range
of high quality goods and in their turn
require various products specific to other
economies.
As a result of this situation (to which shouldd,
be added the Rumanian P.R.'s desire to con-
tribute to the greatest possible extent towards.
constantly strengthening peaceful cooperation
among nations) our country consistently car-
ries on a policy of extending its foreign trade.
As early as the end of last year the Rumanian
P.R. sent economic delegations to various-
countries in Africa and Asia to conduct nego-
tiations with a view to concluding bilateral
exchange agreements. Since the beginning.
of 1956 in this geographical region, two new
trade agreements have been concluded with
Lebanon and Syria. At the same time, upon
agreement with the respective partners, our'
country has extended the validity of a number
of agreements for another year while greatly
increasing the volume of exchanges provided
for under these agreements.
It is a permanent trend in our foreign,
trade to continue also in the future to set
up direct economic relations with any coun-
try that wishes it and to increase the volume
of trade exchanges with all countries. This.
tendency which is the logical consequence
of the development of our national economy,
at the same time serves the interests of the'
national economy of any country. Moreover
it is a sure means of fulfilling mankind's pre-
sent desire - the establishment of a lasting
peace and a happy and prosperous life for
all nations.
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for Standard and Narrow Gauge Railways
+ Locomotives, steam, electric and
EXPORTS
,.Diesel
+ Freight trucks, open and covered
+ Tank-cars
+ Trucks, self-discharging, etc.
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 SULPHURIC ACID, &c
H2SO4
PHYSICO-CHEMICAL
PROPERTIES
Sulphuric acid
obtained by
contact process
Sulphuric acid
I
obtained
by
lead
chamber process
Type B Type C
B I
Type
Type C
Aspect
clear. oily or opalescent liquid
Monohydrate sulphuric acid
(H,SOJ, min.
9611.
a
9611.
,-,
Dioxide (SO,), max.
Iran (Fe), max.
0.0201.
0.02-1.
a.,?/.
a., ?/.
Calcination residue, max.
,
0.z?/,
0.3?/,
0.3?I.
Arsenic (As), max.
oao,?/,
o.oo,?/,
0.5-1.
o.s?%
,
rogen oxides (N,O,).
Nitx.
ma
0.05?/,
0.05?/,
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and inorganic acids, techn-
chn
cal f gases, various plastics;
as mordant in dyeing and
ROMCOLOR
VARNISHES
and PAINTS
Q PAINTS WITH A SICCATIVATED LINSEED
OIL BASE
VARNISHES ON SYNTHETIC RESIN BASE
(Alkydale Type)
Q VARNISHES, LACQUERS AND ENAMELS
ON A CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES BASE
ELECTRO-INSULATING LACQUERS
Q VARIOUS SPECIAL LACQUERS
Q DILUENTS
plastics; in refining mineral CHI M I M PORT-)
oils; in photography; in BUCURESTI
the textile industry; in the
manufacture of chemical
fertilizers, etc. B U C H A R F S T A S T R. R I I R a r l KI ., o w
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. VERTICAL SLOTTING MACHINE TYPE 300 C
A machine of great man-
oevrability and high cutt-
ing efficiency, suitable for
machining parts of large size
and irregular shape. Rigid
construction with" round
table and inclinable head.
- Stroke of ram, 300 mm.
- Slope of slotting head, ? 12?
- Diameter of table, 620 mm.
- Number of strokes per minute
14-21-30-40-57-80
- Automatic feeds of table (long.
and transv.), 0.12-0.18-0.3
0.4-0.75-1.2 mm.
- Power of main motor, 4.5 kw
(1440 r.p.m.)
- Weight net, 3500 kg.
- Weight gross, 3850 kg.
- Space required
2400 x 1750 x 2500 m m.
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RUMANIAN INDUSTRY - MAKER AND
EXPORTER OF A WIDE RANGE. OF
FARM MACHINERY AND IMPLEMENTS
Among the industries created in our country
after World War Two the industry producing
farm machinery holds an important place
in the Rumanian economy. Grouped in big
units fitted out with modern appliances, the
Rumanian farm machinery industry is today
in full swing. It turns out new products every
year, thus constantly widening its assortment
of high-productivity machines built according
to the latest principles of modern technique.
The growing production capacity of this
industry and the quality of its products have
caused the Rumanian People's Republic to
become an exporter of farm machinery already
3-4 years ago. Besides tractors (described
in No. iz of our bulletin) the Rumanian-made
farm machines are well known on many mar-
kets and are highly appreciated by those who
use them.
This is what the "Ilindusthan Standard" of
November 5, 1955, wrote in this connection:
..owing to their good quality and low price
Rumanian-made tractors are highly appreciated
abroad." Referring to Rumanian-made farm
machinery, the newspaper wrote: "Rumanian
agricultural machinery and implement indus-
try has reached a high technical level. ., and
turns out new types of machinery which increase
labour productivity".
Of the agricultural machinery exported, we
should first mention the type TPM-3-R-5
tractor plough which, owing to its charac-
teristics and to its low price is being in-
creasingly ordered from abroad. This is an
excellent type of plough for medium-powered
tractors and has moreover the great advantage
that it can be used both for ploughing up to
28 cm. deep and for stubble turning at 1 z-14 an.
For deep ploughing it is fitted with 3 big
shares and 3 coulters, its working width being
9o cm. To be trailed the plough requires a
tractor of about 35 I-IP. The plough may
be used also with lower-powered tractors
(approx. 25 HP) if one share is dismounted.
For stubble-turning the 3 big shares are
replaced by a frame with 5 small shares with
which a working width of 120 cm. is obtained.
The plough is used in light and medium
soils with a resistance of up to 5o kg/dm2.
Of sturdy construction, it is easily drawn
yielding a neat furrow and a good turning
and breaking-up of the soil.
Another agricultural machine exported by
our country is the CUT-21 type universal cultiva-
tor suitable for preparing the soil before sowing
as well as for tending crops that require weed-
ing and which are bultivated in rows. The
machine has 105 working parts and can be
drawn by a 30-4o HP tractor. The working
width of the cultivator is 4.2-4-5 m, the
depth of working 16o mm. and its total weight
xioo kg. In ten hours the cultivator will work
an area of about zo ha.
The DB III disc barrow, which is also suitable
for breaking the clods and crust, is another
Rumanian-made farm machine much appreciat-
ed in foreign countries. This strongly built.
machine is very efficient owing to the fact that
it will work at the high speed of the tractor and
will cover a working width of over 5 m. at a
depth of 30-100 mm. The DB III disc har-
row has 36 manganese steel discs of 450 mm.
diameter distributed in six gangs. The angle
of the latter can be adjusted from O? to 35?.
The weight of the disc harrow is 1300 kg, a
RUMANIAN MADE
AGRICULTURAL
MACHINES
? KD-35 full-track tractors (37 HP)
? KDP-35 full-track tractors (37 HP)
? UTOS-2 tractors, universal type, on
pneumatic tyres (37 HP)
Exported in advantageous conditions by
INDUSTRIALEXPORT
Bucharest 4 Str. Gabriel P6ri Nr. 2
Phone: 4.97.44; 5.16.09
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,tractor of approx. 35 HP being required for
drawing it. The disc harrow is easily transported
to the fields even over narrow country roads
as its width in transport position is no more than
1570 mm. the discs being easily loaded on the
frame of the disc harrow.
Our industry can moreover supply farmers
with the modern mechanically drawn sowing
machine, the type 5 r i grain drill. The machine
is provided with seed distributor with groov-
ed cylinders and double discs ensuring a perfect
distribution of the seed. With 24 rows the
working width of this grain drill is 366o mm.
The drills may be lowered at a depth of roo
mm. excellent conditions of germination being
thus ensured to the seed. The capacity of the
seed box is 0.3 m8. and the weight of the machine
930 kg. the drill being easily drawn by a 35 HP
tractor.
By farming with the above shown machines
and implements and by using modern agro-
-technical methods, rich crops are reaped, the
gathering of which in the shortest possible time
is a matter of importance, solved at a low cost
by the Rumanian-made SL-54 mechanical reaper-
binder. The working width of this machine is
2100 mm. (7') and its output, at a speed of
3.5-4 km/h, is o.8 ha per hour. The machine
is easily drawn requiring a pull of only
.35o kg.; its weight is taco kg. The machine
is supplied with two knives consisting of z8
cutting ledger plates each (one with plain, the
other with ribbed finger plates). The binding
device, carefully made, ensures the binding of
uniform sheaves.
Our industry moreover supplies the highly
,efficient V. R. type threshing machine, that has an
..Output of 2300-4000 kg/h and will carry out
threshing in excellent conditions with a minim-
um loss of grains or breakage. The sturdy
metal frame of the threshing machine gives
the latter great stability while the axles and
shafts mounted in ball- or roller-bearings
make for smooth running and a long service
without breakdowns. The drum, boo mm. in
diameter and 1360 mm. wide, is solid and well
balanced and is fitted with 8 beaters. The
speed of the drum is roo0 r.p.m. Each of the
two cleaning devices of the threshing machine
consists of a fan and several sieves,, securing
a perfect cleansing of the grains which are
then sorted in the spiral sifting cylinder.
For the driving of the threshing machine a
22-30 HP force is required which may be
supplied by an electric motor, an internal
combustion engine or the belt pulley of a
tractor.
In addition to those mentioned above, the
Rumanian specialized plants turn out a number
of other farm machines. Of these we mention
the maize threshing machine, with an output
of 350o kg/h and the metal c S-45 u sorting and
cleaning machine with an output of up to iooo
kg /h. -
The Rumanian industry likewise turns out
and offers for exportation a number of farm
implements for animal draught or hand driven.
Among these, an important place is held by
ploughs.
The Rumanian industry turns out 3 types
of ploughs for animal draught:
- the P.M. type universal plough with fore-
furrows and fore-carriage for medium soils. The
working depth of the plough is x80 mm.,
the working width 230 mm. and its weight
77 kg.
- the P.R. type plough with fore-carriage for
billy countries consists of a moldboard, z shares
and a reversible furrow which turns the earth
on to the same side in both directions. This
type weighs 73 kg. and is suitable for the same
working width and depth as the P.M type.
- the P. V. type plough is recommended for
ploughing in vineyards or between planta-
tions sown in rows. Its width is only 450 mm.
and its weight 36 kg. This type is suitable
for ploughing down to x6o mm in depth at a
width of zoo mm.
A reaper for animal draught of the S. P. '. 5 - 5 5
type is also supplied by the Rumanian industry.
The cutting width of the machine is 1525 mm.
(5') its weight 480 kg. It can be drawn by z
horses.
For mowing grass, clover, fodder, maize,
etc. our industry turns out the C. A.-1.4 type
mower for animal draught for 1400 mm. cutting
width. The machine is supplied with two
knives, each with 18 ledger plates (one with
plain, the other with ribbed finger plates). This
solidly built machine weighing 415 kg. can
be drawn by z horses. For harvesting. and
mincing fodder those concerned can purchase
Rumanian-made mechanical rakes, hay presses,
fodder and beetroot mincing machines, etc.
They will also find in our country various other
farm machines and implements such as: hand-
operated cylindrical metal selectors with an
output of zoo kg/h, special types of selectors,
tree-spraying apparatus, etc.
From all the above one can see that the
Rumanian industry turns out a wide range
of farm machinery and implements. All
orders should be placed with the ? Industrial-
export)> foreign trade company, No. 2, Gabriel
P6ri Street, Bucharest.
Our farm machinery and implement industry
being perfectly fitted out with modern ins-
tallations and having gained a rich experience
both as regards production and exportation,
importers everywhere are sure to get high-
quality Rumanian products at prices which
will enable them to. make good business in
their countries.
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A High Quality Insulation Material
R 0 M I Z .0 L' I N
Among the problems facing the builders in
most countries of the world, an outstanding
place is held by the insulation of buildings
against water, dampness, etc. as the durability
of a building and the good conditioning of
the floor space largely depend on the solv-
ing of this problem. The Rumanian chemical
industry has greatly contributed towards the
solving of this problem, having worked out
? ROMIZOLIN >> a product with outstanding
insulation properties which is being manu-
factured in increasing quantities at present.
This Rumanian product is of the same quality
as the insulating materials sold under the
a Asplit a, ?Inertol a and other trade marks.
As a result of its quality characteristics,
sROMIZOLIN a is suitable for use in a great
number of domains, from among which we
mention the following:
a) Owing to its hydrofuge qualities it yields
excellent results in the insulation of new build-
ings against infiltration of water and dampness.
It is therefore used to insulate any buildings
such as warehouses, hangars, sheds, stables,
foundations, cellars, concrete flooring, brick
walls, terraces, balconies, sheet iron roofings,
door and window frames, etc.
Concrete or sheet iron water towers and reser-
voirs painted on the inside with eROMIZOLIN?
become absolutely impermeable. The product
adheres perfectly to masonry, plaster, concrete,
iron, wood, etc. with which it unites perfectly,
withstanding even hammer blows. The e ROM-
IZOLIN a film is resistant and elastic to bending,
free of cracks or breaks.
b) In any kind of repair work e ROM-
IZOLIN > is most valuable as it precludes damp-
ness and ensures durability,
c) As c ROMIZOLIN a protects metals
against rust it can be put to the most varied
uses, for the painting of frames of lorries, cars
and railway trucks, of metal bridges and
pillars as well as of iron or pig iron tubes.
?ROMIZOLIN a not only protects floating
units - both the part under water and above
water - against rust but also renders them abso-
lutely impermeable as it fills any cracks or
porosity.
d) e ROMIZOLIN? protects wood and can
consequently be used for insulating the sole
and ends of sleepers, the more exposed parts
of wooden pillars (irrespective of the kind of
wood used) for insulating wooden bridges, for
the maintenance of telegraph and telephone
poles and to protect any wooden craft which,
being treated with < ROMIZOLIN a, become
insulated and absolutely impermeable.
e) In the lumber industry e ROMIZOLIN
is used for insulating the ends of logs (especially
of beech logs) as well as the knots and the parts
where the bark has been broken, thus prevent-
ing the loss of sap.
BUILDING MATERIALS
+ Cement (Portland, maritime,
oil-well)
+ Window-glass (drawn, wired,
ribbed, frost, muslin, dec-
orative, glass wool, etc.)
+ Marble: Ru?chita and Moneasa
+ Travertine: Borsec and Car-
piniS
+ Gypsum, Alabaster, Plaster
of Paris (stucco for mod-
elling)
+ Iiieselguhr (raw or ground)
+ Asbocement (artificial slate)
E X P O R T E D
everywhere in advantageous con-
ditions by