GIVES DATA ON POLISH FOREIGN TRADE

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• Publication Date: October 3, 1951
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SUBJECT Economic - Foreign trade
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G;FTS DATA ON POLISH FOREIGN TRADE
SIGNS TRADE FACT AtiTrr :N')OhTST_A -- ZT:rich, Neoc Zuercher Zeitung, 21 Jun 51
Lrnd.er 0 On r try'-;. sg:eEII:Gnt cenciuded in Warsaw on 17 June 1951
bei:e.en Pcl.e.ni and int:r-ea:a, Fciand Is to GTXppiY textiles, metal products,
se'trlg machine=, kia`-'='rsre. F-rCel9in; chemicals,. and other commodities, in
return f icateris.is and foodstuffs, including tea, coffee,
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pepper, and gu_n:.ne, the '.sttar to be used, to :cmbat epidemic malaria in
the Polish swamp .eg'-:os
AUSTRIA WANDS MORE FO_lS?: CO-- -- Zur'ch, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, 5 Jul 51
coal from Poland
Austr a wants to import one jL11'_ion tons of black.
against shipr.Ents of rol..ing t-c'.:, cellulose wool, aluminum, and nitrogen
fertili?zer At pre-:ent, 82 percent of the imports from Poland of
cc&:, while Austria _h:.I=, for the most part, iron goods,
firebricks. Despite the extraordinary price increases, imports for the
f from :56 million_ schillings in 1950
tor139 from Jnmschy to gs or ~1 y _959; 1, so that Poland's share of Austrian iuE-
pe orts 139 was re duced d from 6 6 7 :t to j?.9 percent During April 1951, Polish coal
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shipments to Austria totaled only 77,000 tons compared with 127,500 tons
supplied in April 3950
SAY USSR CONTROLS POLISH FOREIGN TRADE -- Buenos Aires, Argentinisches
Tageblatt, 26 Aug 51
The following comments on the effect by oviet influence on Polishter
foreign trade have been taker.
of the Polish-language periodical Kultura (Paris). The article originally
appeared in Der Monat (The Month), an international monthly.
In 1938, Poland's foreign trade with the countries of the present-day
ans-
Soviet bloc amounted to barely ll percent of itstotal
taland in portitrans
actions. By 1947, this figure had risen to 37 pe
44 percent. Under the Six-Y.ear Plan, trade with the satellites will amount
to 68 percent of Polish foreign trade by 1955?
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Within the scope of inter-Communist trading,,the USSR occupies a
highly privileged position. Poland, for example, is forced to import
Rur.:nian petroleum from the USSR, which pockets the middleman's profits.
Nor can Poland sell her coal directly to Finland; such export transactions,
too, -'1st be channeled through the USSR.
The natural economic cooperation between Poland and Czechoslovakia,
so greatly :.tressed in 1947, is gradually fading out.
EGYPT TO SEND PHOSPHORITES TO POLAND -- Dusseldorf, Chemische Industrie,
No 8, Aug 51
The former trade and payment agreement between Poland and Egypt which
expired in September 1950 has been replaced by a revised agreement ratified
some time ago by the Egyptian Council of Ministers. The new agreement pro-
vides for expansion of trade between the two countries. Egypt will supply
Poland with phosphorites among other things and will receive chemicals and
minerals from Poland
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