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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82R00025R000700030001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 16, 1966
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2005f01/06 : Cl
16 February 1966
Chief, International Shipping Branch
Trade and Services Division, ORR
THROUGH: Chief, Trade and Services Division, ORR
1. Attached are two tables containing the data requested by
Bob Michaels, Senior Staff Member, Defense Subcommittee, House
Appropriations Committee, on the composition of miscellaneous
general cargoes imported by sea into North Vietnam in 1965 and on
exports by North Vietnam to selected countries of the Free World for
the first half of 1964 and first half of 1965.
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3. Data are insufficient for a valid estimate of North Vietnam's
exports to the Free World in 1965. We have therefore provided data
in Table 13, which is unclassified, on exports during the first half
of 1964 and the first half of 1965 on North Vietnam's exports to France,
West Germany, Japan, Malaya, and Hong Kong. These countries accounted
for more than SO percent of North Vietnam's exports to the Free World
in both years. The data show that North Vietnam's exports to these
countries in the first half of 1965 exceeded those of the first half
of 1964. Shipping data, however, indicate that North Vietnam's ex-
ports to the Free World in the second half of 1965 were about 36 per-
cent less than in the first half of 1965. Specifically the volume of
coal exports to Free World countries decreased by 2S percent, cement
exports by 58 percent, pig iron by 54 percent, and all other exports
by 59 percent. Because these exports to the Free World provide the
only significant source of foreign exchange for North Vietnam, the
sharp decrease in exports to the Free World in the second half of 1965
represent a considerable loss to the economy of North Vietnam.
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