East-West Trade Trends. United States. Foreign Operations Administration

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       CHAPTER I

       Emphasis on Heavy Industry

       How Forced Industrialization Affects Trade

       How the Kremlin Controls Trade

       West Has Never Barred Peaceful Exports

       Stalin’s Last Gospel

       CHAPTER II

       Letting Off Pressure

       The “New Economic Courses”

       Malenkov’s Big Announcement

       Khrushchev and the Livestock Lag

       Mikoyan Advertises the Program

       Has Stalin Been Overruled?

       CHAPTER III

       The New Trade Agreements

       More Consumer Goods Ordered

       A Shopping Spree for Ships

       Most of All, They Want Hard Goods

       Something Different in Soviet Exports

       They Have Dug Up Manganese

       The Emergence of Russian Oil

       Gold Sales Expanded

       Reaching Outside Europe

       CHAPTER IV

       The Kremlin and Peace

       A Mixture of Motives

       Their Objectives Haven’t Changed

       Their Practices Haven’t Changed

       The Free World Is Strong

       The Challenge

       CHAPTER V

       The Background

       Basic Policy Reaffirmed

       The New Direction of Policy

       Reviewing the Control Lists

       East-West Trade: Road to Peace

       Trade Within the Free World

       The China Trade Falls Off

       They Play by Their Own Rules

       United States Policy on the China Trade

       CHAPTER VI

       Battle Act Functions

       The Money and the Manpower

       Meshing the Gears

       Improving the Machinery

       The Termination-of-Aid Provision

       Miscellaneous Activities

       Summary of the Report

       APPENDIX A

       BELGIUM-LUXEMBOURG

       CANADA