EXPORT INSTITUTIONS IN RUMANIA

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• Publication Date: August 22, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO. 25X1 A
Rumania
Export Institutions in Rumania
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General
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a. In Rumania all export is directed and handled by the Ministry of Foreign
Trade. For this purpose the above Ministry has set up the following
institutions:
1) Comoar ? for the exportation of meat.
2) Prodexport - for the exportation of foodstuffs.
3) Exportlemn - for the exportation of. timber, timber products and
papero
b. There also exist similar institutions, which were set up by the Ministry
to deal with the importation of goods. Source remembers the name of
only one such institution, namely: Textilimport for the importation of
textile products.
Exportlemn: Literal translation "Timber Export"; technical meaning - export
ai`-wood
, timber and timber products.
a. Location: Piata Rosetti No. 4 Bucharest
Personnel: 320 employees
b. Organization of Exportlemn:
1) General Management: A certain Jenescu is in charge of the General
Management temporarily, replacing Steriopol, who was removed for
reasons unknown to source.
Departments: There are six departments each directed by its manager.
a) Supplies Department:
1.
2.
Manager - Sosnovici
Personnels 62, including the manager, the head of office,
the heads of sections, the technical personnel, the typists,
the personnel of the registry and the clerks.
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Ass To supervise the oupplierse office and its six
sections in respect of the following points:
To control the prices of the invoices issued by the
suppliers IPEIL and Sovromlesn .
To check whether the quantities shown in these invoices
correspond exactly to the quantities shipped for export,
b) Invoicing Departments Its task is to make out invoices in
foreign currency
obi Transport Department: Its task is to control the transport fees
contained in the cons tm Notes transport fees are charged
to Exportlemno.
Calculations Department: Its task is the reconversion into
Rumanian lei of the invoices made out in foreign curwency4
e) Planning Departments Its task is to check whether the suppliers
IPEIL and Sovromlemn have shipped the materials and quantities
fixed by the Ministry of Foreign Trade for every country,
Accountancy Department: Managers: Abramovici
3) Offices: The number of offices corresponds to the number of
departments, and they have the same designations and tasks. The
offices are subordinate to the departments and superior to the
sections4 They are directed by heads of offices who sign all papers
together with the manager of the department and the beads of sections0
4) Sections: Each office (hence each department) has the following six
sections:
a) Section for Soft Woods Technical personnel, including head of
section: 10a
b) Section for Hard Wood: Technical personnel, Including head of
section - 7o
c) Section for Plywood and Veneers: Technical personnel, including
head of section - To
d) Section for Furniture: (Tables and chairs only): Technical
personnel, including head of section ' X
e) Section for paper manufactured from wood: Technical personnelf,
Including head of section c 5
f) Unknown to sourceo
c. Process of Exports
1) The designations and quantities of material to be exported are
decided upon by the Ministry of Foreign Trade, which passes an its
instructions in this respect to Sxportlemn, and the latter have to
do nothing but execute these instructions. However, no program
showing details of materials and quantities to be exported over a
certain period has ever been handed to Exportlemn by the Ministry
The export instructions are issued by the ministry from day to
and it happened frequently that these instructions were canceller ,
later (sometimes only to be re-issued again a few days or even scare/
hours afterwards),
From the above described procedure one derives the impression that.
it is the Ministrrypa intention to maintain a mantle of secrecy about
the details of the kinds and quantities of materials exported to the
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4) Poland 0 5 percent of soft wood (no hard wood at all) .
5) Argentina. w 5 percent of soft wood (nor hard wood at all)
6) Israel o 7 to 8 percent soft wood (nor hared wood at all)o The
expoR to Israel commenced after an agreement was signed by the
General Manager of Exportlemn, who proceeded to Israel eepecialdy
for this purpose.
7) En d 5 to 6 percent of soft wood.
Places of Shipment
a. To USSR: Goods destined for export to the USSR are shipped from the
following places:
1) Radauti, where they arrive by Rumanian railway and are transshipped
at this place onto Russian trains.
2) Galatia where the materials arrive by Rumanian railway and are re-
loaded on to Russian lighters which proceed to Reni, a Russian port
on the Danube,,
bo To Other Countries: Goods destined for export to other countries are
dispatched either from railway aiding: near the IPEIL, or Sovromlema
(as for example to Hungary, Csochoslovakia and Poland) or via Constanta
where they leave in most cases by foreign ships,,
5. C2!?ennssa
ao Exports are not effected in return for "compensations" in the juridical
sense of the word, in fact,, however, everytime some goods have been
exported to a certain country other materials are imported from that
country, as for Instance:
1) Upon the completion of export to Argentina, cotton was received
from there.
2) After the exportation of goods to England,, textile machinery and
electromotore were imported from there and these were passed an
directly to the USSR. (It is in such cases only that the USSR
agrees to forego part of the timber or any other material due to
bar.)
3) The following goods were received from the countries mentioned
below:
a) From.Ceechoelovakia ? Textiles, coal. (Rumanian coal is being
exported to USSR.)
bbl From Poland Coals
From Hungary @ Textiles, earthenware sugar. (Rumanian sugar
being exported to the USSR.)
6. Other Export Institutions @ Source has no knowledge whatever about these
s u ons. One o his friends, working in one of the slaughter houses
of Comoar, told him that all the meat is actually shipped directly to.
Chinas without being transshipped tia the USSR.
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