GRAIN SUPPLIES TO FINLAND BY USSR UNDER TRADE AGREEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R001701020004-6
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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National Defense of the United States within the
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1. The new trade agreement between the USSR and Finland for 1955 - within the
framework of the valid five-year trade agreement - has now been signed in
Moscow. In general, the agreement follows the lines of the past year*s
agreement, although there is some curtailment of the volume due, mainly, to
the USSR cutting down the import of Finnish prefabricated houses.
2. The import from the Eastern area (including three-corner transactions) will
total about 527 million roubles, while the.Finnish exports to the USSR will
amount to about 555 million roubles. Of the difference, the USSR will pay,
as it did last year, 40 million roubles in Western currencies or in gold.
In fixing prices for Finnish exports as well as for Soviet imports the ruling
world market prices have been taken as directive basis.
3. The agreement provides for the supply of grain as follows:
Rye 100,000 tons at 68.-- per 1000 kgs free on wagon at the
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Wheat 180,000 " " US$77.50 > " It
(1951180,000 " " us$83.--)
The above quantities are intended solely to cover the requirement in Finland.
Perhaps in later negotiations there will be taken up the question of the
import of further quantities for re-export to the Western countries.
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