SOVIET ORBIT'S POSITION IN CERTAIN RAW MATERIALS

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• Publication Date: May 31, 1950
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The attached information is submitted in response o the request
dated 7 April 1950.
The list of commodities upon which information is requested has been
expanded to include other raw materials which are produced in insufficient
quantities in the various areas of the Soviet orbit. These materials are:
Cotton
Tungsten
Lead
MOUtd08,1181
The etu is presented in five sections:
ales metals and ferro-alloys:
Satellites
Soviet orbit Summary
11. Natural Aubber
U.S.S.R.
Satellites
Certain agricultural conmodities
U.S.S.R.
Satellites
China and Northcrz Korea
Minez'a1a1 metalsrubber and agricultural commodities
. Soviet Zone Germany
Minerals, metals, rubber an agricultural come) 08
Yugoslavia and Finland are omitted.
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a, ?t&13 arLd Perro-alloys
A* USSR
ity
NNW
;949
0
40,
delive
mai-curio
r aa ia known vas
QM Genoa to Odeasa
have sold Global Trading Comps-AY of Li
ury at '45 a flask villa vas understood
January 5. 1950.
months (January to June).
r t
a
bQT 1949, Soviot purchasing or:Ants abroad were told t
b e stratajc rad of of alca*
r indii dual commaltles
aireurT In China,. the ma.4Aor prod a
sold to the National Resources Commis
t of an old Soviet loan to China.
IL Itay, the mines are owned and ?parotid by various
and sales are made by them direct to buyers. In Spain,
e email Chines
Exports veto seat
aro owned and operated by th Government.
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T - Tin in China was , n y the National ReeourcesGt&iion
delivered
Is
and individual Chinese miners and Bold to the Chinese Government* .
to UI, was in repayment of a loan from that country* Tin Pram
of Chinese origiu. eoth Hong Kong and Macao handle large am
smuggled tin 'which is sold clandestinely to the highest bidder. Tin for
nelgium usually comes from the Belgian Congo and is refined there o
Cobalt. The Belgian Congo is the largest produeer of cobalt in
the world* It is eined, processed and sold by the Union einiere du :
Eats
onds . These are >rodueed in the elgiau
Host are sold to the Diamond eyndioate
o private buyers and tliese sell in the open merket.
role um and the Netherlands have been sellize to the Soviete and aatelliten,
under trad reaeTn eeder illicit operations. .... eover* the Soeiets have
been buying in Teeny oomtries, mostly in black marl:et transactions.
France Switzerland and Italy have also participated in the trade.
ma, strategic grade. 'ehile ;ace is found in every country*
only in a fon countries is the stretegic grade prodeoed in any large quantity*
India produces and processes a large part of world mica .ad*asoar and Brazil
are other producers* The Soviets have large reee
and prodw
meet their demands. Any idea they might import would be for stockpi ieg
of eioeptional quality
quantities.
At times
tTSE has acquired graphite fronC
ve deposits that will give thee One
be a shortage of crucible grade but
do not bey from Madagascar shows it is not an acute shortage
2.02m Belgits stpplias a considerable amount of cop
trmm the mines
many eampanies4
and commercial deals
ble source*
Load R Belgitmi and the etherlanda are largesuppliers
SNOPOIMION,
VR
in. various forms (new, secondary, alloys. *tee)
Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, wht
d delivers copper to the US,
vista seek copper supplies
a
eeotiatine with the USSR far delivery of 2.000 t
to the above ccnnoditiea, mn
d
idered vital te the Soviet economy. These minerals are dealt/bel
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of essentiality
The t essential use of no1ybdentmis Z'or the m ufacture of
types of electronic tubes. For this purpose, there are no su
In the ufacture of structural aid tool steels, molybdenum ig:irery
4Wmismmtbut is not in1TIOBiala,siomee approxim a; the sore
ent Ae
be
produced by using other alloying elements. inoe molybdenum is one of the
scarcest .a1ioyin elenenta in the USSR and a very useful elemOst, it
it is likely that the R is anxious to obtain as much of this e1nentas
po eibie.
if large iniports are not possible, particularly if the Soviets
ungston they leant from China.
b. Hormel yearly requirements
Probably about 2000 tons
LA
or, the Soviet steel industry k1 not be Neftsta*: Aaffeoted
Total yearly imports by USSR since 1946
t all the
per year.
unknown Lend Lease ceased in 1945
.w 102 tons
1.12 tons
approximately 108 tone.
4. Zxports from co' try or origin to USSR for 1948 and 1949
1*48 *may 132 tons
1949 - Heresy shipped 58 to
North !Corea approximately 60 tQuS
Woohnrle.. it is possible that the USSa is
molybdenum from idanchuria which produced 516 tone of concentrates in
and 1944. No data has been received on possible iaurian exports to the
USSR in 1948 or 1949
414
by
ducers
CO
of origins.
the. North Korean overnneat
Known hipp.r from countrzi of origin to US.
Norway Kzmben ning 'Company
North for North Korean Gowerament
Known consignees in USSR,
Mortrans (from Korea)
Terms and conditions of business
Preaumably moor barter ortrade agreements
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Tungsten
a. Degree of essentiality
Although timgsten is vital to the .;SSR, it is enlikely that
44F2temirrrinntier-3:70iItiC al - t--57-c-al.-3.coi -real; 11 liractical purposes, is
now part of the .:roviet orbit. An incongruity in the tungston .end by the
TIC311 is that, with issaR steel production at roughly on fourth -65 production,
:ov:Ist requirements for tungaton aro e,onorally eat td to bo almost aa
much a. total US consumption. .A in diffloult to determine ?loviet require.
meats being as high es is claimed,
b. Normal yearly requireente
1949 . 1950 require lents are estimated to be appr
7,000 tons of 60 percent WO It is difficult to know whether this is
an 1" or not, in view of oaragrapl. "4! above* Aeavy uses of tungsten
occurmainly whan proaeo, of armor piercing shells is at a high leva.
c. Total yearly imports by USSR since 19461.
1946 . at least 4,000 tons of 6G percent 101
1947 . at least 3,500 " "
1948 . 6,000 to 7,000 " * "IT
1949 . 1,600 to 2,500 IT I IT *
d. Exports from country of origin to USSR for 194, ad 1949
Chine . 1948 6,000 . 6,000 tons of $0 percent 7i'
1949 . Not over 1,000 tons and probuoly
of 60 percent 103.
Ncrth Korea
----"'"311b . 1,000 tons of so percent 1103
3949 4000 .* 1,500 tons of 60 percent
Ifltiation by oannodity
Majors produners in China a
1. National itesoilrees Commission until Novw.ber 194
2* Chinese Cosemenzi.vt Govern.3ient
ajor producers in Korea:
1. North Korean GoveraTeant
The Kiohu inie
The Koksan Yine
hipper* from China to USSR
1* aong Kong
Wen Chang fradinz CorLpany
Tengtse Suiply Corporation
XwQag Shing Cheong
Channel Trading Company, Limited
Marden Development Comvany
Luso Enterprises (Portuguese)
Pau Trading Coc:pauy
Spencer and Sons, Limited
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Dv1oiflnt Company
sons .rLd Company
tentia
Da total Company
ljorth China inve8ent Copc
China 14.-:Tport Tradin7 t:ompany
Korea to USSR
Eoroan Govornn
hIppers
b(China)
dstv
or
n u.S, dollars or
3, Repayat of Sovi,:t loan of 1939
d conditions of bizIness in Korea
Is purchased by the Soviets and
purely. a bookkeepil transaotio
ey thue obtained the North rorean
es fro the liSS/4
in
Tin
Diamonds
cant
nune
belga.
nifioant
none
none
2000
34000
(ore)
Of Esse
insig-
nificant
none
insig
'Man
none
rnU insigm
nificant
very very
vary essential epsential
very essential
essen *
nitiaant Mificant
Orefhite none none *
Copper Inolaw e-oritia1 ecsential very sential
nificant z4icint
Lead
'Very
eaueutiai eiren
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Alb
;talearia
echoio-
valcia
Tons
ot:.erwise
Indus,
Diamonds
.ercury Tin
:Jona
Eone
?g T.
138 T.
60 T
1,267
20 T.
1,2)
900
1
(6 mo
?????????????????????????
on.e Wont)
10
930 C. unkrown
77,378 C.
52,991 C. "
4,50C C.
203
125(eram)
2000,
101Z*
11.5
36 4737
2,100 1810.75 C.
1,815
(6 me.)
180
Albania
ta/ requt
utria11y to ha
.ve teen report
oximately 8 000 tons
reported to send Until
2,271
to Copkor
TS
176
3,917
25,924
42.520
51i000
4,929
f metals 7.To
CO to 65 pereit o t%e
exported to the US
truo*'.e and to Invest in the delviopm,
million
.
mines; or 1950 this investment allegedly arAounts to 8o414/44*
charge ot" the minin3 ope7etion at the Rubiku and Buka oop?
ro the Mtjor producer
p November, 1949 totalled 5,.O00 to o
xpQrt3 of copper ore to
arf law
garia
Bulgarian consump
of metals is
'on is exported in the Para of ore to the USSR
ption or as1i shipment of copper,
Import of copper igots ro Turkey In
eerie- y ehort o
in, lead, andLdustriai diamonds wale ar vta1iy ateeat:
ndustry and war.eselng economy of the country.
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NOrmal ainta1 imports 7,000 lbs
domestic prothoton etited at 1,500 f
to cover requirements aad co1d e thcreas
in Niptepber 1.949 - 5 ?
of
sport*
ado agree:Lent ,plan 20
Italy. llowsver4
19424 is
ted Y'rom
Imp? ts
Iy for 1950 planned at 63 tons. tot?el imports rzn Italy in 1947
1948 20 tont.
ombined Tin
00
-.mai requirement is
estimated as follows 19
arst slx aonthr of 1949 ? 900 tots*
exports by countries to Cechoa1ova1a
a
94etrit. tett-
lds? 1,074
niem 156
otbor c tries 4
1947 ?
exports *were all a11ocitod to Cseeloslevakia by the
Ielich ceased fmc ionin2;
NormU amtal requiren
om Beljum
Prmn Netherlands
le grade ics
tons in 19484 nost of
annual imp
which have
949,
trial dia on
lands are repoi
=ted
1947
1E768
9,110
nts of ioa were repot
,
d that year by the T3 and lndi
1946 1949 are not available. The reports on mica
eived have not stated the grade of Tice shipped
exports
llowin items are extractions from w2oh reports and planned trade areement
shipente.
In P474 acoordluf; to trade areeneut,
20 tons of nba to Czecho1ovnia,Trade aCreenent of 1948
Csechoslaraia mica valued at 1 ni11in crowns (19,9).
'valued at L26 OC 441904750) were seat to Csochoslovakia fro
it not listed in Ca h levakiett p
(General)
According to the ECA,
the satellite countries
deliverwas to
nia granted
Ad of mica
dia in 949*
istaining
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all tie 1c desired from Ind1a. The British point ent further that
satellite CC.' ntries can obtain all grades of mica from Brasil, .:adasascar
and
seme -_,,rades from Aral- tine, In To 154'30t r1t;_sh pro-cased that license
a-:,-TaicatIons for mica to the satellite countrftos be careNlly screened by
mica oxoorts rer qualtij quantity.
FlaIca vaphite,
normal annual imports O.' Lraithlte aro ro;-lorted t 4600 tons
(maf_aly fro:. Lustria and Gr. any). The plan or 1q49 included imports tr
000 tow of cyaphite.
Production af 21z7-e :raphite in Cups oslova ia0 r.kiile of low
carbon content (60 porcont) is believed to 'oe sufficient for dmestio req,ire.
oinoo no ursont demands for ita ',Lave been reported rocently and
jesrly imiort fic,ures sine 1946 aro not available, Ireduction fi:?ures were
reporterl at 140000 tons in 1919 and an estimate of 144200 tons for 1950,
The on/y sources available Lo Czeolloslova'Aa for oAmin10
tIeke .typB rphith aro Austria and Ger
Reports of Iuports;
from austrls between 1 ao ptetabor 1948 tonso 4to
ahipped rran _nehldorrer Graft :orgbau A.G. near 4itsr, bower La3tria to
t140 rim of Tan,veho.Blavia
Twenty tons of 2rarphite erel Auehldorfor Crati'76.Berlaa.10 A.C.
to on unspeeifted f::.rm in Bratislava.
Accordin,.; to tho trade areement cr,J ly 1949, Llu_stria was,to
supply 50M0 crowns worth of ;:raphite to ,:zechosIovel-ia, rac",3 not reported.
From (}ermany . The Czechs were nagetiatin,,- orad. or
Dumber& for 100 tons of srakIhit o;.....rly in 1940 bu-o the truction was not
oonpletedbecal.lse of the export ban in force in Bizene, Cemany.
?MGT
The shortaze of cower in ?seen industry is most serious.
import reqviroments of oopper for tae ns of curront Caoo
elova imn peaceuime production. but rerhaps not for any spooial aram:ent
program, is believed to 40,000 to 50,000 tons.
Actual ycr4r iraporto or copper from 1940 to 1949are re2crted
as followst
3.946 . 3,024 tons; 1947 - 220879 to 148 42,620 tons and
1949 estimated at 51OQO on which was the planned import require-gont for that
year. (ports ore2itled cop;er froi hi1 in 1947 totalled 9,M1
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An estimate of copper exports for 194C and 1949 tram co'intri
of origin is difficult to mal..e since so much of the imports of copper into
Czechoslovakia dur1n0 those years was illicit and not reported*
Exports from Canada to Czechoslovakia in 1.948 amounted to
6.411 short tons (5*816 1,41)* Under trade agreemen;41 for 1948. Czochoslovaia
was to receive from Delgium, 6.500 tone of coppers USSR 4.000 tons; and fran
Yugoslavia. 5.085 tons*
An imp3rt agree:ent was made with Sovsone Germany by the Czgeh
&eiting works at Prague?between June and November of 1948 for 1,000 tons of
mapper scrap* The greater part of the copper taports, however, aro Valieved
to have been supplied by the West. mainly Belgium* Chile, Mexico and the
United Kingdom*?'
In 1949* plaunsd requira7ents included 51,000 tans of copper
of whieh 17.000 tons were to have been supplied Czechoslavazda and EE
countries . probably Bulgaria. Hungary. YUgoalavia (early 1949), Germany.
Finland and the USSR. The remaining 34,000 tons is estimated to have been,
supplied by Chile, Belgium, Lieliee, Holland and some frah Japan and Canada*
Actual reported exports of copper to Czechoslovakia from count0Y-
of origin in 1948 were:
Pram Tugoslavia 5.087 tons
Maio* 1.408
Belgium .8,900
Dorsey . 200
Mmior prod7cers of coppers
Mexico . Cobra de Ifirsico; Cananea Consolidated Copper Canpany
Belgium. Societe Gonerale des anerals
Holland . 1:rtsimport (Transshipment :7irm)
Chile . Braden Copper Campanyl Anaconda Cpez Cpany
Known shippers to Czechoslovakia:
Italian firm "Anonlma Commercio Pr4otti Indust
in Lugar:o. Italy*
London Derby and Company
Holland "Ertsimport". Ansterda:%
Switzerland - Basel, Switzerland; "Societe
Anonym pour le Exterieur", Zurich; "Globe
Trade". Zurich; wrogdi aud'Company",
Zurich; "Metall Ers A.0**1 ohag CaMpany,
Zurich*
Germany etrans*, Schaffenburg
European Metal Corporation. New 'fork*
y requirements are estimated at approximately
30.000 tone*. Average imports of lead boforo the mar (1935-1937) amounted to
11,V28 tons.
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Lead is one of the critical s.ortagelvin CseCA industry and
one of the most difficult items tc, procure. The shortage of lead WW1 the
cause of restricted production at several factories during 1949. 1948
imports of lead reportedly amounted to 23,844 tons coming mainly from Germany.
Yugoslavia, Belgium, 6,ustrialia, Spain, and Poland. Planned import requireu
manta for 1949 included 22,000 tons of lead to be imported mainly-from yago.
elavia? Poland, Rumania and the usgR.
Imports of lead
1946 . 6,036 motric tons
1947 19,686
? 1948 12,844
1949 22,000
Trade agreemOnts show planned exports of lead by countriess
From Bulgaria ..
From Mexico
Fran VS
From USSR
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Belgium
100 tons (1949)
lead in various forms . am
(1949.1964)
'large quanti ti es* (1950)
4,000 tons{ 1949.1951)
2,000 tons 1949)
8,400 tons 1948)
8.700 tans 1949 (before th
1,000 tons (1948)
Actual shipment are reported:
Prom Yugoslavia . In 1946 8,465 *one lead
From USSR Januar i to September 1948 1,463 tons
From USSR First quarter of 1949 . 650 tons
TI
The annual ly position requires 9,000 pounds of mercury
Imports per year. Source unknown Mercury was listed in the 1949 trade
agreement with Italy but amount no stated.
Netherlands.
from Belgi
Ti
Requirements 50 tons a :-Ionth.
Consumption 600 tons amikuaJy. All imported from the UK and
Allocated by the Combined Tin Committee 1947 .? 203 tons.
July December 1948 126 toas.
Industrial diamon s
No infamAtion is avuila%le on imports in 1946.1948. Exports
in 1949 amounted to 7,117 carats.
The barter agreement with 1Torway whic nded in 1930Anoluded
some mica. The amount and the zrade were not J.ven. Exports fro u the US in
1947 ao.ounted to 2,271 tons.
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Ftom Austria by agreemem in 1949 . 1,000 tons(grade not gi
and in 1950- 1,600 t-?as of which 300 tons have been ahipped
2mas
IWngarian industry needs 600 tons of electrolytic:copper p r
month. Iaports of copper in 1947 amounted to 4,929 tons and included Prom
Turkey 1947 100 tons
USSR 1947 502
Yugoslavia 1947 2,163
information on Shipments for 1948, 1949 have only been
reported in small dribbles. Unstated amounts of copper and copper products
imports *ere planned in trade agreements for 1949 with. Italy, Switzerland and
Sweden.
Lead imports in 1947 a-cunted to 1,550ons.
Zap:arts to ury
Wan USSR
From Belgium
From Australia
?
2,000 tons 1949 Agrew_unt
227 tons in February 1950
$ tons supplied by Derby & Company, London,
98 tons supplied by Derby & Co., London
24 tens II It Wn
11.. Poland
liereug
Thros.year trade agreement with Italy 1949-1
export 80 tons mercur,r.
17 to
The Combined Tin Committee allocated 8734 metric tons in 1947;
Poland 2,100 metric tons of tin in 1948. 203 ton_ of refined tin were shipped
to Poland handled in Antwerp by Van 0mmere (Anvers) S.A. forwarding agents;
origin unknown, and 1,615 etrio tons during first Ault of 1949. Trade amp..
ment 'with Indonesia for 1960 includes tin. Amount not st-ated,
Industrial Diamonds
Uo information on imports in 1948 ciA 1949.
Etports frau Belgium in 1947 . 2,933 carats; 1946 . 191 arati,
From the Netherlands in 1947 - 784 *
Trade azreelent for 1949 with Austria shows plans for Austria
to supply Poland with mica valued at 010,000._ Grade,
Gra*ite
From a Soviet controlled firl in Vienna 170 tuns graphite,
(Muklbere Grafit .orks) Roveber Dose ber 1943*
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A report of a senthetic eraphtte fectory at Ratibus was made
in Aibreary 1249, statin, ;ht the factory processes 50 railroad cars of raw
material daily and ships only graphite powder to the USSR. The raw material
reported'," comes from 'ISA/Germanys
Trade Agreement
ezeCeoalovakia to deliver 1,000 tons raphite in 1960
Treace to deliver 150 tons in 1949
orway " 150 e
Copper
Anneal oeppor imports daring 1946.1949 not available. Exports
of copper t. Poland which have been reported are shown as follow:
Prom Finland 1949
From Chile 1949
Pram Japan 1949
Prom Albania 1948
From YUgoalavia e Planned
Prue Albania
Pram Belgium
From Bulearia
3,000 tons refined copper
5,555 tons of which
3,556 toes were reported
8,000 tons
Amount not atated
1949 - 2,000 tons
1949 eeeunt not stated
1950 agree-1,500 tons
ment
1949 Amount not given.
sipped by tile Braden Cope:
From Argeetina . lead 'feted on trade agreeeent.- ,mount
net stated. From Yugoslavia. planned 1949 e 2,000 tons,
Rumania
4ercury
About 1,500 pounds of mercury is eroduced annually from
complex go1dsilvereeercere ?rose The only reported export to Rumania was
26 tons- of mercere purchased from eehellere an- export and import aeency
in uriche in Aueust 1949. The supplier wee Universal eexieaaa: Vera Cruz.
Allocation by Combined
December 1949e eraa USSR . 9 tons.
Industrial Diamonds
n Committee 1948 .
0
ens. July e
No information on imports of diamonA in 1946k 1947 or 1213
ts from Beleiva were reported in 1949.
Mica - Nona
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Requiromoce,e small. Domestic plane *opacity 4 tons.
Imports, Annual e 1400 tons
Exports by dountry I,rom USSR e 1949 . 23 tons.
CopRer
Copper exports in eetrLe
eous (actual and planned) framt
RET Turkey MT 2046
" 1947
1948 1949
Bel gium 5.)00
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teed
ulremonts about
1946
?730. T,
(ere)
Exports by country;
1947 1948
11161?1011m...
550
on-th)
tons suffici ant
047 1948
MOR ... July and August 1949 1 ,763
4
5.000
on't-, of :o1i
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eke of 76 lbs. mercury sac
U.S.S.R.
Albania
Rulgaria
Cseehoslov
Hungary
Poland
Rumania
None
nificant
*
Small
nificant
?
0
15.000
Very small
? *
3
mall
1#50
None
11411
!Ma
000 40,000
one None
Inn
1160
OW
oslovakia
Bung827
Poland
Rumania
15,000
None
?
Very
853
'427
600
Terf
1300
lasential
283
1857
138
IOW
1267
2)3
Olat
2100
180
9
A*I*
Sale
100
USSR
Albania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Rumania
tial
Critical
Critical
a
Essential
None
0
5
7i
Insig-
nificant
None
?
e None None
3 4 5 5
5 73/4
g- 'wag. IC. ins. Insig.
nificant
INV
APO
0111111,
Induktrial
onds (In carats or value in DS dollars)
Albania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
SAngAz7
Poland
Rumania
Critical
Ins4-
nificant
uantiml
3asential
Small
50-100.000
Very small
sman
$81.895
None NOW! None
930 77,378 5Z 991
3737
118.070
None
alb
41?1.
metric tons)
USS
Albania
Dulfaria
Csechoslovakia
Hungary
land
Rumania
None
0
Issential
Ins 1g..
nificant
Essential
mug-
niPicant
750
None
115
Very small
Small
None
None None
2271
None None
MP.
10
4Mp
MO,
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USSR,
Anent a
Nalgaria
Czhosjoyakja
Hungary
Poland
*mania
None
?
?
Neeential
Ineig-
nificant
assent/al
Insig-
nificant
1000
None
0
1600
Small
1000
800
None
1,100
40.
1,100
YIP
410
1,100
411-
+OF
VOW
3 in metric tons)
USSR
Albania
Nagar/a
Ceecboal
loam). al
7000
4000
3500
6-7000
1500-7500
None
None
None
None
None
?
None
Crit al
45-Metal
20-
40-
45-
45-
7040% Metal
concentra ee 200-
Metal
300-
Metal
380-
Metal
380-
3&J- rro-W. "'arro-
w.
Ferro
rro-
Ferro-
Critical
110 rro-W.
50-
1erro-
59-
retro-
110-
Ferro-
110-
?erre-
V.
11.
W.
U.
*--
eatial
Ineig-
nifi cant
Innis.
Ins g.
'note.
Insig.
etrictone)
1
Albania
Nulgarla
Csecho,lo,ekja Citjal
X
MOO
None
?
102 132
N0318 None None
40 Natal 20- 30- 40-
178 Ferro- Metal Metal Metal
MO. 100- 150- 178-
Ferro- rorro- Terra-
20- 22- 60-
rerro- rerro- Perro-
Me. Mo. Mo.
N0118 None None
60 Ferro-
Mo
Insig-
nificant
178-
Ferro-
60-
Terre-
Mo.
None
41.
Albania
gall&
nechoelovakia
3=8047
Poland
Nellenia
2,000
50,000
6?000
10,000
7,000
None
176
3917
lab
25,924 42,5
4,929
6,1
850
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Albania
Coaohoolovakia
Poland
Ndmania
Tory
aificamt
II
Very
11***ntidd
110,000
Nom)
1,000
23,000
16'11
10,000
3,000
6 19??90 1
1,550
3,000 4,806
401,
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to USSR and Sate
for the USSR, Czechoslovakia
seiblythe Soviet tone of
f the Soviet bloc countries have small rubber fabricating
use on the average not more than 5,000 tons each of natural
ease of war, this fabricating capacity would contribute
o t but in themselves constitute a very small part.
own of fabricating capacity, hence rubber requirements according
Austria
Bulgaria
Czeehoslov
Hungary
Large syntheti
othereiee have
Poland - of growing importance
- of growing importance Rumania small
- negligible USSR * vital to econo
- very important
- small
bher production provides elastome
be supplied by natural rubber imports.
2. istimate of Normal Yearly Requirements
Since World War II efforts to increase
duction capacity of rubber
abricating plants have been made, and increased import demands of natural
ubber can be expected. The following table represents normal yearly require
te for the USSR and Satellites:
Hungary
Poland
Rama&
negligible Ruagar
- 6,000 tons(increasing) Poland
1 000 tons
Rumania
Formerly around USSR
15,000-20,000 tons -
ftzw about 30,000 tons.
tons
10,000 tons(increasing)
tons
from 50,000 to 70,
with possible increase.
f Yearly Rubber Imports by Countries since 1946
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1,450
1942. 12M,
1,470
3,832 8,182
300
150
925
14,767
23,358
22,000
2,377
3,000
4,750
2,250
3 600
i2.000
100
1,000
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4. stiniate of ber zport3 from Country of Or.
1949 direct shipment)*
1948 Total,
AA*
A4146
4,377
n.a.
2,197
nil a.
Albania
Austria
Bolger a
asehoslovakia
Hwtgary
Poland
USSR
10), 59)
L949.p_d...4a.
n.a.
4,377
1
342
342
4,641.
4,641
285
285
Poland
8,535
7,909
Bausania
112
1,112
USSR
6,464
63,414
Al
* Discrepancy between yearly ru
experts from country of origin to
Par, 4) ii not shown, but is accoun
Netherlands and China.
and Satellites
PM,
ta by countries(Par. 3) and rubber
and Satellites for 1948 and. 1949
or by re-exports largely from UK
5. (a) Major Producers in Country of Origin
Rubber estates in Malaya, Indonesia, and Ceylon.
(b) Known Shippers from Country of origin to USSR and Satellites.
Me detaila are available On this question, except for the case of the
USSR, but it is probable that most of the Satellites follow regular trade
channel routes as has the USSR. However, the USSR also has procured rubber
through seans of UK trade treaties, whereby certain sterling balances are
accumulated from delivery of grain and timber to Great Britain. In this case
sales were made in London covering rubber and actual shipment was made by
Malayan branches of representatives of London houses. Payment was then as
through London banks to Singapore banks. However, some rubber is bought through
regular trade channels, in some cases by Soviet agents, with payment in Straits
Settlements dollars,
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Rubber prices averaging 17.56 cents per pound in 1749 have risen to 25 cents
pound by 1 May 1950. Companies which have bought, procured, and made
al rubber available to the Soviet Union include the following:
East Asiatic Co., Ltd.
Maclaine, Jatson & Co., Ltd.
Sandilands, Buttery & Co., Ltd.
Anglo-Preach & Bendixsene Ltd.
HeogAandt & Co.
garrison & Crossfield
Berne? Co., Ltd.
Paterson Simons & Co., Ltd.
K. C. Lee Rubber Co.
Rotterdam Trading Co.
Moine Compt Co.
ox re
was via Rasnoimport, official trading conpai
et vessels to ports of Odessa and Betum. Minor
merits were de by vessels of other registry, and some came into the USSR at
Leningrad. British and Netherlands consignees, names unknown, take care of
shipments which, are re-exported from these countries to the USSR and Satellite
countries.
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d fats
e been same imports of fats and oils, the Soviet
Orbit as a wboie would not be eerioway hurt if they were stopped completely.
The present areas, &etern Europe and Manchuria, supply sufficient quantities
of vegetable and animal oils and fats to maietain industry and the armed
forces, Ther. would probably be some decrease in the general standard of
living but it would .not be eerioue enough to impair the working capacity of
the people as a eho1e4 Imports of edible fate and oils are not esaential
to the, industrial and war making economy of the Soviet Orbit*
2s cords ribera
Jute and sisal have a low degree of eeeenti1ity to the U.S.S.R. and
taUite. Domestio fibers are available as substitutes. Small amounts
of jute are being imported from India and Pakistan. No sisal is imported.
Heneqeen, a hard fiber somewhat similar to sisal, is imported fromMsolco.
Imports by the U.S.S.R. in 1948 and 1949 were 31,000 tons and 10,000 tone
reapectivoly a compared to 14,000 tons in prewar. So far in 1950, 5,000
tons were imported by the U.S.S.R Cessation of imports by the. U.S.S.R.
mould not impair the industrial and mar making economy beeause of the
availability in the U.S.S.R. of eubetitute fibers.
Hemp is not in short supply in the U.S.S.R. nd Satellites. The area
in the largest producer of hemp in the world.
The current importation of fibers by the U.S.$.L and 8ateilites is
not a matter of abeolute necessity, but are rather temporary tasirea uttii
increased domestic production. 14 effected.
3. Leather
The Soviet Orbit tms been inport1ng leather from u. Morita. The
aunts involved when co pared to total consumption are negligible and if
cut off would not impair the industrial and war-making economy. The aim-
ination of leather imports would probab1y mean a.alight decrease in the
amDwt of shoes available to. the civilian population but would be otherwise
unis,ortant,
4. Cotton
r the &vjet Orbit as a who1, he necessity to ob
wption
U from
it countries is probably a border line cae. Total.
approximately 870,000 metric tons of which 216,000
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re imported from
. For the 1948-49 conan
Use year, total tonsumption is estintated at 700,000 metric tons or 80 percent
f prewar of which 148,000 metric tons or 20 percent was imported from the
*tern Countries. The decrease in consueption of raw cotton has been
effected by rationing and a start has bean mads in substituting synthetic
fibers such as rayon, perlon, etc.
The elimlnation of cotton imports from the eetern Go
accentuate an already tight situation in the supply of oons
War and industrial uses would probably be unaffected. The
eta
crease in the supply of textiles for the consumer is bard to measure,
felt, that the Orbit could get along for one or at most mo years
any critical difficulties. An immediate effect .ould be the closing
of hs cotton mills in Poland and Czechoslovakia.
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le In the ease of China
be noted that the estimate of Citiality
f the various commodities includes a consideration of the implications to the
cist egime of large-scale unemployment in key urban areas as well as the
treat effects on the eeonomy resulting from China's failure to obtain these
Although less is known about conditions of internal stabi1ty in
thern Korea, it is believed that econemlo considerations are far mors I,mpCtarLt
han tical factors la an estimate of the essentiality of particular commodit
hum, to the extent that it is possible to assess essentiality at all,entire en"
has been placed on economic restore.
2. Although pstroiezni was not discussed in the USSR andateli its sections,
? pertinent to note that, in the ease of China at least, this e mmodity is
only to raw cotton in its degree of essentiality. When the Nationalist
rnnt was in eontrol of the mainland, principal mantes of petroleum impor
the U.S, and the Middle East. It is believed that the Comniniets are obtain
eons, although insufficient, amounts of petroleum products from the usta,
3.
sign trade data or north a are virtually unavailable. Until
statisties we recorded fort he country as a ehole; after the divia-
were published.
ountry at the Nth parallel
on the initiation memorandum
Korea (e.g. tungeten) have not been eansidered
The products examined in the sections below are raw mat
industries. The industrial sector is a minor segment of the
however, so that none of these imports can be regarded as ab
to the country as a whole. The economy of most of China is prini
Chino's
on a economy,
toly essential
agri-
cultural, and provides the population with the bulk of commodities needed to
maintain their sabeistence seals of living. It is thus cooperatively unaffected
by the volume of industrial imports.
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ela iv* unimportance in terms of the
inc Conni.trite have strongly espoused the objective of
sector in order to free the eountry from traces of "Coicnjnli
on of the dustrial sector in the politically volatile
o its strategic significance for the maintenance of Coszwzniet
aintenance of normal levels of output and employment in Indus
onsidera1e importance to the Communist regime. For the maintenance
10 The
cities
trols
of pat and empleyment in the Industrial sector, row eetton is by fir the most
important import examined below. Chinese textile mills occupy the largest mown
of the Industria elector, accounting for over half of total employment in all of
modern industry. Despite the efforts of the Chinese Communists to promote
domestic cotton planting, the textile industry will continue to depend on a large
volume ofimports for the next few years, at least.
None f the other commodities examined below approach raw cotton
of essentiality. bar ray be regarded as of moderate essentiality
rubberthe growing goods industry, which accounts for approximate: 5
modern industrial employment in Shanghai and which employs a aignittcarr
sorkers in hcities as well. The degree of essentiality for copper
may also be considered moderate, the import of these products helping to maintain
in the electrical and other light industries.
?or the ining item cited below, the degree of essentiality is
I)omestic mc production could be expanded to oompeneate for the elimination
of foreign sou ces of saPPII, 0?balt metalA Iqth trial diamo1nde,4.21, and fittl
have not been imported in significant quantities. 22E18mtams have
been imported in some quantity, but China's major reliance is on the finished
product such AS gunny bags. Leather imports will probably be reduced under the
oCmwttst regime since manufactures from these imports served to meet the needs
of e wellto.do.
tot
41:1,
Pro
The norm
ented in
of impo
rements of the materials exerainwi below are
These requi.rement, were estimated on the
with an allowance for probable increases
RET
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the availability of domestic sum of cotton) and possible increases
in demand (e.g. of rubber) with progress in industrialisation. The annual, re*
quirecant figures are estimated averages for the next 3 to 5 years
The *port ?iures, shown for 1946, 1947 and 1948, are taken trou the Chia-
ese ms returns for those ;ream These data are not aveilable for 1949. The
absence of 1949 figures is not, however, considered a serious deficiency for pur-
posesof this report since the Nationalists blockaded the China coast during the
$00
the year an the import totals for 1949 are therefore not repre-
sentative of noza1 yaarly reciiremente.
TABLE I
OF SZLECTZDCooDrXFs, 1 948
NORHAL ANNUAL REQU
in metric tons)
4,225
19
3
2,558
so 567 el
1,2oo 107
abs 3,344 2,131 2,0:19
and plates 1,076 223 421
950 1,797 3,756
/302 1,199 ,, 1,1195
281,372 123,236 21 89,522
1,027
392
Unknown; probably negligible.
.2/ Does not
?,/ Does no
1
ar East as sisal. How.
of 73,710etric time
1tida ECA ehiente of 68,040 metric tons
Source' Chinese Maritime Customs Trade Statietics
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TABLE II
CHINA
ANNUALMORT'S OF TED COMMIES,
1947 and 1948, BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
(In metric tone)
TOTAL
Great Britain
Hong Kong
Its4
Straits Settl
United States
British torth B
French Indco
Croat Britain
H Kong
Ptg'tuueec Beat Africa
Sett1ttits and F M,S#
tates
ountz,ies, and unknown
Bur
?
synthetic
19
9
2
_1948
NA
578 23,337
78 140
751
199 2
931
236
36
2
1
3
6
8
50
3.6,967
4,743
1
457
10
84
2,338
6 730
TOTAL
Great Britain
244
India
2,308
6,730
Siam
6
567'
so 535
16
11
5
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;311
TOTAL
Argentin
Australia
Brasil
Bursa
Canada
French Indochina
Great Britain
Bang Kong
India
Sian
3traite Sett'
Uruguay
United states
other
r. Mit
TOTAL
G. CO
eta aAd
and F.M.S.
AEI
6
3
15
7
3
7
513
2,131
9
2,122
18
467
APR
Me-
20009
2
179
2
195
4,
3,756
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Ragius
Canada
?ranee
Great BrLtatn
Rang Kong
India
JaPtel
United : tea
Unknown
Union of So. ftica and Rhodesia
31as
United States
Other countries and unknown
L t Pigs or
TOTAL
Mi
Grea
Ha
KG
H
StrataSett
s widen
United states
?
Ct
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509
1
151
143
105
283
IOW
E.CRET
la,
43
68
392
33
7
50
202
17
2
ao
6
3,675
9E12
30258
485
5
6
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Countr of origia
The identification of e,S. eh1ppers to Communist China is a matter of Prima
Sat to the Departments of Commerce and State and possibly to the Federal Dirresu
istigation, They will therefore, not be tncltded here,
Ke ng is an important source of imports for ommunist China and it is
he case that few trading corporations would refuse to export any of the
conaideratien. The following firms in Hong Kong represent an incomplete
ehich have made shipments to Gormumilst Chinas
Copper and lead, /AT TUE CONPANT
Coppers TA CHUNG INDUSTRIAL COMPANT
Cefpert UNIVERSAL TRADIM COMFANT
&beet TAI TAR HONG
Rubbers HONGKOM ENTERPRISES LTD,
Rubbers B1JTTF2FDAID & SWIRE
Rubber; P.L. TANG& COEPANT
Rebbers DAH CHEN COLTANY
Cotten; HUNG HO CHANG
he
ha
sections 4
CemPLAY has been a large iporterReseures recently adopted by the Communist
governiaent in Peiping, however, appear to foreshadow the replacement of these
regional orge1n.tzatirns by nationwIds corporations operating with affiliated
are ee ing a ;steadily increasing
private rthants still
reign trade monopoli*atiou b;.- the
ime tins through its north
ations have been major importers,
a through private importers, but
efforts to establish their elm
past year, the C
and other goverwzt corp
companies have made pure
ey have been making Arena
sign sellers, In the e miegyear the government should be
in by-passing private intermediaries and acting as the
-rt Company has its eessa
the Shanghai area,
organizations in other
China Foreign Trade
1E!
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branches throughout the ecunt
of Trade.
Currently, the terms
payment before shipment or
sale of cotton specified 2
arrival of the carryina steamer
ight
and ander the general direction of the hinistry
re such as
If iver/
down paymen
the balance of 5 percent u
AS
selle
The ma4er part of northern Korea
try* mart7 of the commodities hate
for light, consusr goods
need of cotton textiles, cordage,
ability to utilise rTteettRn
MURAVC
is retir
the degree of
is not known,
tions
t be izported for the
or the relatively inn
ofttialiV of industr
in 0 reference
dustries. Thus,
te#
gunny sacks, rubber ar leather
calitidialP and n?4ri,t1 rubber is
quick cash,
act made in the
70 percent on
checking of the
d of heavy
constitute
Ko
disxacnds to the northern Korean e onomy
ping machine tools industry and the
diamond imports,
a
cl not a=
ta available, north?
ric
tone annually, - No information is av
by the Repa
clandestine
rade did not *
tb Rong Kong reached
h south
rience
sive
hie on any of the
de
level o $100,000 0000 Prior
Korea existed until it was terminated in early
of Korea. Smuggling with southern Korea has persisted and
de with Japan exists,
'ECRU
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T3 (iF SELECTED c
By COUNTRY OF ORIG
trio tons)
-4 =
Rubber
Tin p
Cordage fibers
Th.se data are estimated and
ity and oompletenssa.
queStiOna
3
239
10
227
3
onsid ation have invar been purchased through
outhern Korea mho in turn, have inported these commo
for 1949 Imacate that thc folloming Hong one or
(onigzed 3 rore shipments during the year to northern Korean ports,
d CO. 6 iVheelock Bldg*, 110 Chung Chengbi,
Co. ... No known address
TA Trading Co, - 133 Yuen Ming Yuen
IAL CO,, L. - el Jinkee Rd., BX4 505
CO, ?? York Bldg.
CO. - 123 Canton Rd., R. 103.
YI TAI HONG or info,
CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE 420 Ssechuen M.
H093.KONG EASTERN Stems ship Co. 5 Queens Rd.
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20 Des Voeucltd. and the TRINITY TRADDTGC0i,iPANY
active in this trade?
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unknown, are also
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a quas -g vernmont
The m&jor portion of the Hong Kong northern Korean trade ie conducted
tw s. It le believed that northern area ha* accumulated 004e foreign
holding* in Hong !tong banks but it is doubtful if these holdings are
than !IX $5 000 COO.
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D.gr.e of e8seztia1.ity Ia wzknorn, but probably not great.
rmal yearly pre-war consumption Lor all of Germany sea 500
production eas 100 tons the principal source of the ore being
S&wny in the Soviet Zone. The rest as Imported, chiefly from Africa.
PrroducUon or import of Cobalt is not meationed in Soviet Zone
prothction lams or trade aresnnts. It may, hoeever, be included under
the general term nalloya * but in any ease in very small amounts.
2. Stratelic grade Mica
Degree of essentiality is apparently not great.
No mica is produced in Germany. Pre-ear req for all G.any
were around 1,000 tons annually, which increased to 1,800 tona after 1937.
sourceThe cZ4ef of supply was India (80 percent), with *mall amounts from
Uie US UE, gentina, Madagascar Brasil and South Africa. During the war
obtainedit wae from Norway and the Balkans. Present requireeents are
unknown and the material is seldom mentioned in official documents*
In the 1949 trade agreement with Bulgaria, mica was specified as
an Soviet Zone imports, and delivery of 10 tons as reported.
November 1949 import figeres show imports of $2,750 worth of mica
powders froni Yugoslavia and #6,000 from Rumania.
3. Cor4ap fibers (Jute* sisal, hemp)
Degree of essentiality is probab great.
Armr Intelligence Report of 14 February 1950 stated: "The Bast fiber
industr7 of the Soviet Zone has suffered from the very inadequate raw material
supply. In October 1949, the VVB Bast Fiber received offers for flax delivery
froaLEOpt. Several hundred tone of hemp from Manila are espected and 200
tons of he re allocated from South-Eaat Europe. An Istanbul firm offered
to sell the VYB jute products from Turkey. 1 Prase t reqairements are unknown.
Hemp production in the Soviet Zone in 1947 was 814 tons; in 1948 it
000 tons (planned). No infornation is available on steal or jute. The
fiber industry is included under 'textiles in 3oviet Zone reports and no
breakdown is generally given for its components.
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trade ag
to the Soviet Zone.
lt949 Imports
USSR
Tisgoslavia
Czechoslovakia
USSR
t 9 months):
nt,
17 tons of hemp
351 t
90 n of hemp and jute
16614*?""
delivered 596,220
de
Vere
of
worth of hemp and oakum
1,375,220 florina of Tug?
avis hard hemp.
_ion plan calls for imports of
Tn.
Degree of essentiality is
ably not at.
Present requirements are unknown. Grap
000
quantities in Germany, principally in Bavaria and the largest refinery was
near Munich. In 1938 output was 28,106 bane and imports 3,728 tons, Annual
nauvtion was believed to be around 12,000 tons normally, and soca was
exported, The Soviet Zone may be getting graphite from this
no information is available on the subject. Principal pre -w
were Austria, Czecho5lovakta and Norway.
Imports:
1948 (?let 6 months) Czechoslovakia
1949 (1st 9 maths) Italy
1949 (1st 6 months) Hungary
The 1949 trade agreement with Hungary vi
graphite electrodes, no figures given.
The 1949 Czechoslovakia agreement call
and graphite coolers for hydrochloric acid.
5.Nercur,
Degree of essentiality is probably great.
Present requirements are unknown. Pre-war requiremanta were large,
averaging 660 tons annually up to 1939. German ore deposits ara very few
and of no commercial value. Domestic output for all Germany from domeQtic
ore in 1939 was 120 tons; imports were 1,100 tons. dartime supplies were
obtained from Poland, Francs and the Netherlands.
es, although
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Switzerland 17 tons
bigoslavia 2
USSR 156 tons
Czechoslovakia 20 n
Yugoslavia 71n
USSR 1,151 flasks
Italy 936 "
Yugoslavia 1,302
Csechoslovakia 599 "
USSR
Switzerland
Tagoslavia
519 of 15 October 1
oauwably from the 4eet
Degre
obtained
90 tons
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reported20
two
vered to the
via Gutenfuer t and 30 tons delivered via the
ts.
1.930 reportShowed a $10,000 compensation deal
of fever thermometers for mere
of sesen
is probably
pal German tin deposits are located in the viet Zone
reported nearly exhausted and wartime output din not
7. Pre-uar imports for all Germany averaged 4,000 tons
from Netherlands East Indies, British India and Malaya
Present requirements are unknown. Soviet Zone tin production in 1948 Was
reported to he 46.2 tons plus 113.6 tons of tin concentrates.
fr man uxispcified sours()
ha) USSR
Switzerland
Netherlands
ftedea
362 d
1 ton
8$ tone
3?
lug tin valued at 2,667,200 Be
g.
Present requirements are unknown. GQrmn wartine indust
wore estimated at 500 000 carats annually. t Zone needs are p
considerably less than this, but great efforts are male to attain
from all sources, principally through illegal channels not reporte al
statistics.
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Netherlands
SWitzerland
USSR
6,444 carats
640 0
321
USSR 8,221 pieceo
18,129 earats
Sw.ttserlan 2,18k piecee
? Netherlands
France
1949, 107,000 Swiss francs worth ot industrial
rted from Switzerland.
3,499 carets
1.828 pieces
13,282 carats
2,764 carats
bbe
itzerland
lgium 1,
Switzerland 32,310
gree of essentiality is not great.
Enough synthetic rubber (buna) is manufactured to et zonal
Joh are kept very low. Production of buna in 1948 was
tons in 1941, 29,000 tons (planned). About two-thirds is taken
ort or rations.
e of natural rubber are impo d.
t 9 months) Netherlands
449 t 9 months) Netherlands
USSR
1949 - 1,386,000 florina worth o
received from Netherlands.
- 30,142 pounds sterling wor
received from London.
]a &&c Fats
Pratau.
of essentiality is probably grea
28 tonS
1,270 tons
424 "
Actual requirements are unknown. Zonal regairemente are not being
and the Zone
her 1948 the
works near
gel)' dependent on imports.
shipped 115 tons of sunflower oil to the
den, and 26 tank cars of cottonseed oil to
'Prom February to May 1949 the ussa delivered 12,000 tons of edLbi
,000 s of vegetable and 5,000 tons of animal).
The 1949 trade agreementwith Hungary called for the import of
r oil, castor oil, and hemp.
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addit
e reported in 1949 (let 9 s)t
Switzerland 10 tens
Netherlands 1,412 "
Norway 312 is
In addition the USSR was reported to have delivered 3,498 tons of
margarine and 4,976 tons of butter in 1949. Small quantities of edible
oils were received from Danmark (15 tons) and China (6 tons).
10. teether
Degree of essentiality is believed great.
Actual .requirements are unknown. Requirements
of synthetic rubber and other ersatz naterials.
Alma for the first 9 months of 1949 were:
From Poland 20 tone
Switzerland 1 ton
Someden 85 tons
met out
U. Cenver
Deeree of essentiality is probably great.
Copper production in 1949 from the Mansfeld mines was around 2,000
tons of metal per month. Zonal requirements are unknown, but considerable
amounts of copper are imported in order to meet them, or possibly for
reshlvnt.
Imports:
1948 (let 6 months)
US sR
2,700 tons
1948 (let 9 m(lths)
UK
40, ,t
1948 (1st 9 months)
USSR
4,906
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Switzerland
275
"
1949 (1st 3 nthe)
Belgium
368
a
1949 (1st 9 months)
US&
2,749
It0 0
a
Czechoslovakia
Switzerland
76
511
n
It 0
IMgoslawia
502
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gree of essentiality is not great.
The Soviet Zone is entirely dependent upon outside sources fork
supplies of raw cotton. Decease of the difficulty of eecur
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the USSR has been expanding the artificial fiber industry of the one and
normal yearly requirements have been very irregular depending upon thr,
extent to which the USSR has been able to supply the mills with raw Mtria
In 1947 the USSR 'delivered 21,400 tons of rawcotton to the Sovtet
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. Deliveries in 1949 are
n, <hough an
ement of imports for the first quarter of 1949
includes 1,903 tons of cotton, aource of supply not given. Any Army
Intelligence Report of 23 February 1950 states that improved raw meter al
receipts from the USbilt made possible increased textile production in the
last quarter of 1949. Due to deliveriee of ?considerable quantities of
Egyptian cotton, the 39 mille in the VVB textile combine were said to have
enough material to last them until the end of the year. Textile production
plans for 1950 call for the import of 18,000 tons of cotton, source of
supply not given. Nothing is known regarding degree of fulfillment of this
plan.
sten and )o1ybdenwn
of eseentialit
is believed to be great.
Ketther mineral is found in Germany, which obtained its pre
plies from the US, China India, Burma and Bolivia. In 1938 imports of
tungsten (12,000 tons) and molybdenum (5,000 tons) reached a peak, Tungsten
production in 1948 was 78.7 tons, exclusive of SAOte.
Soviet Zone imports have been email but the supply rainy regular,
Th 48 trade agreement with Sweden called for delivery ofwispecified
a a of both minerale. From July 1948 to June 1949 Sweden delivered
300,000 kronor worth of tungsten and molybdenum. The 1949 trade agreement
with Switzerl-nd called for delivery of 500 kg of tungsten wire ?d 300 kg
of molybdenum wire.
Other tmports:
1242 (1st 9 n ha) USSR
12.42 (D6ce
1 ton of tun sten anti molybe
denum wire.
Switzerland 4 toss
Denmark 1 ton
Sweden 61 tone
17,000 florins worth of tungsten wire ac
from The Netherlands.
11,230 Seise franca worth of molybdenum
and
2,640 Swiss francs worth of tune
Switzerland.
12121,790 &vise francs worth of tungsten
from Netherlands.
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Degree of esaentiality Ia probably great.
Requirements are unknown, but are probably not b1ng t becue he
lead industry was always greatly dependent upon imports. About 80 percent
of the lead-zinc ores in Germany are located in the Soviet Zone. Production
in 1948 wag'
1241
997 tons, exclusive of SAG a.
of lead or lead concentrates:
let 9 months)
Ii fl et
Switzerland 125 tans
USSR 3,709
Yugoslavia 1,034
Poland 3,000 /I
19i9 (1st 9 months) USSR 2,653
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