ECONOMIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240494-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 494
• Publication Date: July 21, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICJION R TED
CENTn,IL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY r?EPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD N'J.
COUNTRY 'JS. ?, Sr t ills ea DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
SUBJECT Fconomic
HOW DATE DIST. Q i Jul 1949
PUBLISHED Stockholm NO. OF PAGES
PUBLISHED Daily na !paper
WHERE
SUPPLEMENT TO
LANGUAGE Swedish REPORT NO.
DATE
PUBLISHED 2 July
TOTS ODCONINT CONTAINS IIVORIIATAN Ann/CTN/ TAI NATIONAL OIPl*//
0 TO^ 0AITA0 ATATIO WITHIN TAO NIAIIN/ OF INPIOAASI ACT S0
N. N. C.. 31 AND IS. AS ANINOND, TI TIAN$IIISION OR TNI IIYflATION
OP 111 :00111111 IN ANY DANNOI TO AI ONAYTOOIIIID PINION It PRO-
NISL110 S1 LAIN. NIPNOOYOTON or TIIII PORN IA PIONIAITIO.
SOURCE
Aagens Nyheter, No 174, 3.949.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
A very unique trade agreement between Finland, the USSR, and Poland un
the one hand and between Finland, the USSR, and Czechoslovakia on the other was
eigaed in M.,oeccw cr 29 Jurs 19119.
Under the terms of thin agredmer,t Finland succeeded in increasing her
axporte c,o the U6SP by 100 million rublea or 21 billion Finni.ih marks.
More than half of the exports consist of wooden prefa.ricated houees.
Besides this, Finland will deliver 25,000 standards of lumber, copper c;ble
and other copper products, and wooden tugboats and fishing boats.
Under the terms of the agreement between rinland, the USSR, and Poland,
Finland in to deliver 80 million rubles worth of goods to the USSR. The
V,gER will. delver goods of equivalent value to Poland, and Polard can pay
for too goals by cos), d.livcrioe -o 9lrland Tams, Finland is freed from
he?.".ng to mdse any 1.apr sr,7.e +' an:--en :y *.o Polan' . It aec further :;rg'eod
YitL Polcs;d that, bemuse of a previous agrcE.aont, the coal quc'..a allotted
to Finland thin year (abo t E?.Ifi ?;,)Q gone vjuld not be delivered until )950.
Thee, Fia',and'q coal import Irnm ?t,?Irad w_l:. rlbe to about 1,250,000 tone.
Under th t.me of the agreement with FSnl.e t, the U.S.SR, and Cn.,choslovakia,
by 1. July !9a Finlend'e exports will rice to 20 million rubice or about
500 rl.'D l on Finnish marks.
The USSR will export goods of equivalent value to Czechoslovakia, which
in turn will render payment by exporting sugar, machinery, and chemicals,
etc., to Finland. -- Dagens Nyheter's Helsinki Correspondent.
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