COMMENTS ON THREE SOVIET TRADE PUBLICATIONS: FOREIGN TRADE OF THE USSR WITH SOCIALIST COUNTRIES (1957), : FOREIGN TRADE OF THE USSR WITH THE COUNTRIES OF ASIA, AFRICA, AND LATIN AMERICA (1958), : FOREIGN TRADE OF THE USSR WITH CAPITALI

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Comments on Three Soviet Trade Publications:
Foreign Trade of the USSR with Socialist Countries (1957)
Foreign Trade of the USSR with the Countries of Asia Africa and
Latin America 195
Foreign Trade of the USSR with Capitalist Countries (1957)
1. We have briefly reviewed the above books, all of which were
published by the Scientific-Technical Marketing Institute of the
Ministry of Foreign Trade, USSR. Only the first two, regarding Soviet
trade with Free World underdeveloped countries and with the Bloc,
respectively, are of any intelligence interest. All three books follow
the same format: a preface, describing Soviet trade with the particular
area as a whole, is followed by individual "country" chapters, in which
the history of Soviet trade with each important country in the area is
dealt with in detail.
2. Soviet Foreign Trade with Socialist Countries contains some
hitherto unpublished Soviet data on its trade with Bloc countries in
1950, including trade balances. .dtio
app Both the preface and the country chapters, while
offering no new clues to Soviet economic policy in the Bloc, contain
detailed information on Soviet commodity trade.
3. Soviet Foreign Trade with the Countries of Asia, Africa, and
Latin America (1958) yields no new information regarding Soviet policies
or motivations in the underdeveloped countries, although in the preface
a brief summary of Soviet economic relations with these areas places the
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current trade offensive in historical perspective. The country
chapters for such areas as Afghanistan, which does not regularly
publish its trade statistics, provide interesting details on Soviet
trade balances and on the commodity composition of Soviet trade with
these areas.
4. Soviet Foreign Trade with Capitalist Countries (1957), appears
to be of little or no intelligence value. In the l1+-page preface,
Soviet trade with these countries is discussed in the usual Soviet
terms, and the country chapters disclose no significant trade data
which are not already known from other sources.
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