TEXTILE AGREEMENT BETWEEN HUNGARY AND THE SOVIET UNION

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• Publication Date: April 7, 1947
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2. It 8hou3.d be noted that at the end of 19b$. Hungary signeed a e racial treaty with
the Soviet Union for cotton thread and fabric. The USSR promise to deliver
30 million kilos of raw cotton to Hungary. Before the scar the Iungarir:.n cotton
industry req~zyxed 30 .li ion kilos of raw cotton annually in the following
quantities:
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A Soviet econo ,c r..o ,, .anion in Budapest at the end of Dsczaabsr 1$)46 expressed
a hope to sign a second work contract with the Hungarian textile industry. A
Hungarian dolega.tion will leave soon for Moscow. The conditions offered by the
Soviet Union Ord the tee of the fungari< . authorities ara not known.
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sc~?ri = 3 ';r .he r re F nt, Hungary has pr., eed t deliver 3,U2 ton,.; of thread
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2,112 tons of thread a 34 meter
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,,7f0, meters of cloth dyed for woex clothes
3., Qs-os of bleached cloth for sheets
other No.
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8 260 000 11 fabric for wo n's `dresses
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Fabric T
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2nd quarter 1946
7:930,000 Meters N
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3rd quarter 1916
8.,000, 000 " 3
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11,000,000 it 14
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1st quarter 19117
14.,420s,000 " 7
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2nd quarter 1947
14,500j,000 " 1P7
12 Tons
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By the end of October Hungary had delivered about 19 million meters of fabric.
The waste or loss reverts to the manufacturers.
5. The Hungarian Supreme Economic Council has fixed the quality of the raw cotton
at 86 per cent. Up to 31 July 1946, the cotton manufacturers received 1.163
kilograms of raw material and .185 kilograms of another grade for a total of
1.348 kilograms which yielded one kilo of No. 28 quality English. thread. Since
1 August, 1.163 kilograms of raw cotton and .400 kilograms of another quality aottc
for a total of 1.563 kilograms yielded one kilo of No. 28 quality English thread.
6. The weaving and finishing conditions np to 31 July were as follows :
Weaving: 70 grams raw cotton per running deter for 'mss first
7j million meters
50 grams raw cotton for the balance.
Finishing: 130 grams raw cotton per running meter for printed
merchandise
80 grams raw cotton per running meter for merchandise
woven of dyed thread
37 grams raw cotton per running meter for unbleached
merchandise.
7. New conditions for weaving and finishing for deliveries made after 1 August 1946
have not yet been established.
8. The Nenetkozi Textilipar e's Textilkereskede]lmi Incorporated has been established
to fulfill the contract with the Soviet Union. The directorate of the company
is comprised of members of the Hungarian textile industry and representatives
of the Ministries of Industry, Finattw, and Foreign Trade. The Soviet union
is represented in these transactions by the Society Exportlen of Moscow.
in 1911 there were 342,750 spindles available for spinning cotton; as a result
of war die and exports of machinery to Russia, this number dropped to
205,800. As of 3 October 19156, there were 231,000 spindles reported to be
in Hungary.
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