TRADE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN ZONE AND THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004800670003-0
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 15, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. On the morning of 25 February 1950, Frau Lore Staimer, who assisted Georg
Handko, Minister for Foreign Trade of the Soviet Zone, during negotiations 50X1-HUM
for a trade agreement between the German Democratic Republic and the USSR.
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a. High-speed tool steel, automatic tool steel, drill steel, chromemolybdonum
steel, charcoal Steel, turning tool steel, "Vidia" steel plates, shipeo
plate steel, Vanadium steel, steel for turbine blades welding electrodes: 61
all types, welding wire, wire cable of all types in all available thicknesses
and calibers, and ball-bearing steel of particularly high strength.
b. Copper, brass, aluminum, bronze, white metal, bearing metals of all types
for high-speed bearings, magnesium, electron metal, and tombs? (all in
semi-finished products.).
? c, Harley, eats, wheat, maize, cotton, wool, skins, and hides.
d. Finished products: dynamo axles, turbine axles, ships' shafts, hydraulic
draw presses for 100, 200 and 250-ton pressures, electric weldin: machines,
filters for active carbon, automobile tires, inner tubes and 780 hp diesel
engines.
Hakoier urgently requested that quantities should not be specified, but merely
that these materials should be mentioned in the final trade agreement. He
further suggested that mere sugar should be offered in return, ani Lascline only
as a last resort.
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_Iptomente The Soviet=licensed news'ageneyADN reported on 12 April 1950
that a trade and payment agreement had been signed in Moscow by the Soviet
Minister of Foreign Trade, Menchikov? and his East German counterpart, Herr George
Handke: No details of the agreement were given,
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