YUGOSLAV FOREIGN TRADE: TRANSJUG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400530007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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The most important sin ie '._ndivLdiai in Yugoslav State shipping and control
or 1, eign trade thro .wh is t e trued cartels is Melentije Popovic, Yugoslav
X,'.1v111ter of Trade, who was reported as the head of the Yugoslav Trade
Deie"ation yin Moscow at the end of 19)ii3o As the Minister of Trade, he con-
t?>i:, the country's shipr;ix.g through TRAISJUG, the c ..ef of which is
d1r(:,itky responsible to him,. `PN.ANSJUG, like JUGODIRVO, JUG0LEIC, HEr to,
"rr dozens of other stAte-owned and operated concerns, has statutes of its
vivn ` jq?ued the Ministzy., but it cannot undertake any endeavor which does
to the rulos m-ae hi- 'he Minister of Tr.ade..
Jehe u oslair Line, a wartime concern; at present embraces most of the
f Ii . ti ~., teuc rtel forpfnrAi an v ~ s..,,,lts overall directorate is TRANS UG,
rr ~??S % vaaui-t j. v aria in wnic 1 thil e
o si atv Lines (.7ue;oslover.3ka Pl= 'rLdba) is a section or department. The
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< ' n capitals (including A i bEt
I nian and HulzariEui ports)., The Yugosiavr
$ no i.. have an f f7
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--A v-prvvu" ana a numoer of
4 offices in other vl~ tos v seaports. Officee of the Yugoslav Line
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ThI i o Lir ies of T?.A TSJUG rn lfnrm to the economic policy of Yugoslavia which
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'v` `ring to exna?id its OHM ir,2'ereste in forei
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t, . xsx-n away from its , '.. h> ~.,, esse a or steasu: hip
o also insists 011 picking up imports in
a- s own shipping on
-0 ;Tc s-l.ea.v verssells a it not. ~xdll.v pr?r':ars to keen forei n v 1
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s, In practices,
X63=~ = cy means the YFago&?_avr Go ;-rnment does i 1 it
p
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n ccluding foreign
M -1713 from establishing themselves in Yugoslav ports would be considered
n r J'c.rrt to secure brnlr~s+y.~.?. f
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-.e ?uxli~~?es and earnings for their vessels and shipping
w t,ses wherever possible. Thei=r chief
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- a e a-, a group of his assistants,
r,~~ iaMh several of themaxe con-sictired politically moderate, are _ real; sts
ri fyzt. ;i.ness sense? In t 41.r rll'. tions with the West they are anxious to
into bl-sinus on
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r -t r; p eesm~~sl W. this policy of
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n tjonaljsnt,:n He woulrl nersonal]v oppose the estab:I.i.shmen4 of
~ ~ , ~a ?.~"d. Tl COIiRTie G' .n?ll ~@i v In jt vo 41
a yi g e h
Popovic himself the arlt,atane
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