I H D E X AMI SUMMARY OF TRADE AGREEMENTS

January -

The present document contains:

(a) A reference list to agreements which have appeared in the Bulletin, January - June 1959» This is in the nature of an index to these issues of the Bulletin.

( b) A summary of the nain features of each agreement showing date of signature or of Initialling, validity, the total values to be traded, as well as the principal commodities envisaged, if known, ind special remarks.

In the Summary the values and descriptions of goods to be exoorted or Imported refer in each case to exports from and Imports into the country which appears in capital letters.

The Index and Summary is published twice yearly and is distributed with the January and July issues of the Trade (Jews Bulletin. It is issued in the English language only.

MGT( 59)100 English only - Anglais seulement REFERENCE LIST TO AGREEBEHTS V-'H 1CH HAVE APPEARED IN THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE HEWS BULLETIN (Volume IX. Nos. 1 -6)

January - June 1959

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AFGHANISTAN BENELUX (continued) CHILE CZECHOSLOVAKIA (continued) EAST GERMANY (continued) I USSR 4 Sweden 3. Argentina 2, 5 Federal Republic of Germany 2 Lebanon Switzerland 4 Brazil 6 Finland 2 Mongolia United Kingdom 2,4 Guinea 3 North'Korea ALBANIA 5 Norway (HAIHLAHD) 3 Rumania China (Mainland) 2 BLEU North'Vietnam 1 United Kingdom North Korea ? 5 Albania Norway 3 Yugoslavia North Vietnam 4 East Germany Bulgaria 3 1 Rumania 3 Rumania 3 Spain 1 Czechoslovakia 4 Spain 2 East Germany 2 United Arab Republic 2 EL SALVADOR Finland 4,5 United Kingdom 1 ARGENTINA BRAZIL Hungary 4 Yugoslavia 2 Inited Kingdom North Vietnam 4 Brazil 6 Argentina 6 Poland 2 Chile 2,5 Chile 6 Ruaanla Paraguay 4 DENMARK ETHIOPIA 6 USSR USSR 2 5 Yugoslavia 3 Austria 1 SSR BULGARIA Czechoslovakia 5 Austria 2 Federal Republic of Germany 4 AUSTRALIA China (Mainland) 3 COLOMBIA Greece' 3 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY Czechoslovakia 3 Hungary 3 ______-__——— Malaya 1 i East Germany 5 Ecuador 6 Poland 2 Bulgaria Finland 4 Finland 5 USSR 5 Denmark Federal Republic of Germany 5 Spain 5 Morocco AUSTRIA Indonesia 3, 5 Hew Zealand Benelux 4 Israel 3 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Poland Bulgaria 2 Italy 2 Portugal Denmark 1 Rumania 5 Switzerland 4 Spain East Germany 2,3 Spain 1 Japan 1, 5 USSR France 5 United Kingdom 2 Peru • 6 Greece 5 ECUADOR Italy 6 FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND Colombia 6 Morocco 5 BURMA CYPRUS France 4 Rumania 3 Union of Yugoslavia 4 Spain 6 Japan 1 United Arab Repu 5 Yugoslavia 6 FINLAND EAST GERMANY CAMBODIA CZECHOSLOVAKIA Bulgaria 4 BENELUX Czecti9slovak1a Benelux Austria 2, 3 China (Mainland) 4,5 Austria 4 Japan Bulgaria BLEU 1 Colombia 5 Czechoslovakia 3 North Vietnam Cambodia Bulgaria 5 East Germany 2 Hungary 2 China (Mainland) China (Mainland) 2 Hungary 5 No may 5 Denmark' Czechoslovakia 3 Iceland 4 Poland 2,3 East Germany Finland 2 Ireland 5 TNB ref. No. Agreements of: TNB ref. No. Agreements of: 1MB ref. No. Agreements of: TNB ref. No. • Agreements of: TUB ref. No. Agreements of:

NORTH VIETNAM FINLAND (continued) HUNGARY LAOS

Albania 4 Israel 1 China (Mainland) 4 Italy Vietnam Cambodia 1 Morocco 2 Denmark 3 United Kingdom China (Mainland) 4 Rumania 5 Finland 5 Hungary 3 Spain 6 France 4,5 LEBANON Mongolia 2 USSR 3 Greece 2 IRAQ . North Korea 1,2 Iceland 2 East Germany Rumania Morocco 2 India FRANCE North Korea 2 Rumania North'Vietnam 3 MALAYA NORWAY Austria 5 Norway 3 Ecuador 4 Sweden 4 IRELAND Australia Benelux Hungary 4,5 United Arab Republic 3 Czechoslovakia Japan 2,5 United Kingdom 6 Finland Rumania 2 USSR 2 MONGOLIA Greece' Sweden 5 Yugoslavia 1 Hungary Switzerland 4 ISRAEL East Germany Israel United Kingdom 4 India Poland ICELAND Bulgaria North Vietnam Sweden Finland GHANA Finland 4 New Zealand PAKISTAN Hungary 2 Norway MOROCCO USSR 5 Poland 3 Poland Yugoslavia Austria Indonesia Federal Republic of Germany GREECE INDIA Finland ITALY Hungary PARAGUAY Austria 5 China (Mainland) 6 Japan Argentina Denmark 3 Czechoslovakia 5 Austria Spain Hungary 2 Indonesia 2 Bulgaria Italy 6 Iraq 2, 3 Czechoslovakia PERU Norway 5 Mongolia 3 Iran NETHERLANDS Portugal 4 Poland 5 Spain Cuba Rumania 5 Syria Spain Sweden 1 Tunisia GUINEA USSR 5 United Arab Republi Yugoslavia 5 Yugoslavia NEW ZEALAND POLAND Czechoslovakia 3 Benelux 2,3 Poland 2 Federal Republic of Germany 4 China (Mainland) 2 USSR 2 INDONESIA JAPAN Israel 3 Denmark 2 2 Bulgaria 3, 5 Cambodia 5 Federal Republic of Germany Guinea 2 HAITI India 2 Cuba 1, 5 NORTH KOREA 3 Pakistan 2 France 2, 5 Iceland India 5 Japan Haiti 2 Albania 5 Morocco 2 East Germany 3 Israel 5 Sweden 4 Hungary 2 Norway 6 United Kingdom 3 North Vietnam 1,2 Rumania 2 ) Yuaoslavia 3 Rumania 4 Spain 3 - 3 -

Agreements of: Agreements of: TNB ref. No. Agreements of: TNB ref. No. Agreements of: TNB ref. No.

POLAND (continued) - SUDAN UNITED KINGDOM YUGOSLAVIA (continued)

Sweden 3 USSR • 2 Benelux 2, 4 Israel Yugoslavia • 1 East Germany 1 Italy SWEDE! El Salvador 4 Japan France' 4 Rumania PORTUGAL Benelux 3 Hungary 6 Spain France 5 Iran 2 United Kingdom Federal Republic of Germany 6 Hungary 4 Japan 3 USSR Greece 4 India 1 Spain 2 Spain 2 Japan' 4 Switzerland 6 Norway 4 USSR 5 Poland 3 Yugoslevla 6 RUMANIA Tunisia 5

Albania 3 USSR Austria 3 SWITZERLAND Bulgaria 5 Afghanistan 4 China (Mainland) 4 Benelux 4 Arqentlna 5 Czechoslovakia 3 Dominican Republic 4 China (Mainland). 2 East Germany 5 France 4 Denmark 5 Finland 5 United Kingdom 6 Federal Republic of Germany 2 France 2 Finland 3 India 5 Ghana 5 Iraq 3 SYRIA Guinea' 2 North Korea 4 Hungary 2 North Vietnam 3 Italy 3 India 5 Poland 2 Rumania 3 USSR 3 Sudan 2 Yugoslavia 5 TUNISIA United Kingdom 5 Yugoslavia 1 Italy 5 Ethiopia 6 SPAIN Sweden 5 VIETNAM Austria 6 Bulgaria 1 UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC Laos Colombia 5 Federal Republic of Germany 5 Cyprus 5 Finland 6 Hungary 3 YUGOSLAVIA Italy 3 Italy 4 Morocco 6 Austria Netherlands 2 China (Mainland) Poland 3 UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA Czechoslovakia Portugal 2 East Germany United Kingdom 2 Federation of Rhodesia and Ecuador Yugoslavia 2 Nyasaland 6 India " Date of EXPORTS IMPORTS Agreements of Initialling Validity values and principal values and principal Other details, remarks or signature goods goods

AFGHANISTAN USSR 27.4.59. wool, hides, cotton, etc. oil products, motor vehicles, equip­ ment, sugar, ate.

ALBANIA

Mainland China 16.1.59. 5 years crude oil, petroleum, copper and oil, rice, paper, rubber, tires, silk Also protocol on trade and paynents chrome ore piece goods and steel materials In 1959

Rumania 5.12.58. through chrome ore, copper, olives and technical maohlnery, petroleum dériva- Increase of 15? over 1958 figures in 1959 hides tives, cement, chemical products commodity exchanges expected

North Vietnam 16.2.59. 1959-60 minera] and industrial products, agriiultural, forest and industrial including bitumen and plywood produots, including rice, coffee, cinnamon bark and «ment

North Korea 15.4.59. chrome ore, tannin extracts cement, copper wire, high speed steel

ARGENTINA

See under Chile

USSR 27.10.58. 13.5.59. machinery for prospecting, drilling Agreement establishes credit and exploitation of oil, including facilities for Argentina ($100 m> at ,. drilling installations, seismic 2.5$,repayable within 3 years) stations, pumps, compressors, electro- technical material, etc,

Brazil 31.12.59. Extension of existing trade agreement. Steps are envisaged to intensify trade, A new treaty is under study

Patnquay 2.6.59. Also payments agreement. Payments to be effected in Argentine pesos, guaranies •: rany agreed convertible currency. The new agreement Introduces provisions to eventually eliminate restrictions on trade In the form of duties and quotas and to permit the free quotation of their respective currencies in the two countries. A new system of customs duties and surcharges is under consideration

AUSTRALIA

Malaya 26.8.53, minimum Malaya has agreed to provide agreed to remove import duties on 3 years import opportunities for tin, rubber and not to increase 80,000 tons'of Australian flour ' the rate for Malayan undressed and not lo i.hir.^3 tto'r re of duty sawn timber on Australian processed milk, butter, canned fruit, undressed leather and accumulator parts

AUSTRIA

Denmark 14.11.53, supplementary quotas: (Austrian smoked fish (except herring)(50), Extension of Exchange of Goods Agree­ exports to Dennark in Kr. 1,000) furniture (100), radio parts (240), ment of 29.11.48. cycles with auxiliary motors (250),conveyor belts (100), duplicating wine (50), chocolate and sugar colours (10) manufactures (75)

ane lux 2.3.59. 31.3.59. Extension of Trade Agreement signed 31.3.60. on 29.6.57. which was due to expire 31.3.59.

Bulgaria 1959 yoar Have agreed to exchange goods worth $8 m. in each direction during 1959. This represents a small increase on the §7 m. exchanged between the two countries In 1958.

East Germany 1.1.59. 1 year iron and steel, textile goods, wood household briquettes, potash, diverse The schedules provide for an exchange products, machines and apparatus and machinery, products of precision of trade in 1959 to the value of products of electrical industry engineering and optical industry and USS20 m. in each direction. Agreement chemicals between East German Chanber of Foreign Trade and the Federal Chamber of Trade and Industry 3f Austria. Agreement also provides for technical co-operation between the two countries Date of EXPORTS IMPORTS Agreements of Initialling Validity values and principal values and principal Other details, remarks or signature goods goods

AUSTRIA (continued)

France extension of 31.12.59. The list of goods has been extended existing agree­ and export quotas Increased ment

Greece extension of 30.9.59, existing agree­ ment

Italy 30.6.60. The trade arrangements of 31.5.55 have been tacitly renewed for a further one year period

Morocco sickles and various vehicles sardines, Iron ore and raw Agreement designed to redress phosphate disequilibrium in the exchange between the two countries. In the past Austrian exports to Morocco have been higher than imports

Rumania 4.2.59. 1 year steel and steel products, maize, barley, livestock, mineral Protocol to the Trade Agreement of machinery, textile yarns, oil products and agricultural 2.7.50. paper and paperboard, staple products fibre, magnesfte bricks

Spain 21.3.59. machines, Iron and steel, ore, citrus fruit, fibres and 20.3.60. paper, cellulose and nitro­ artificial resins genous fertiliser

Yugoslavia • 1.5.59. cellulose, wool, paper, roll- agricultural products, ceramics, Protocol to existing agreement 30.4.60. ing material machines, wrought Ironwork, copper products, electrical and metal industrial cables, medical and dental instru- goods ments, sports articles

BENELUX

S9G under Austria • •

Czechoslovakia 1,4.59. textile raw materials and semi agricultural products, including Trade between CSR and the Benelux (CSR) finished goods, products of hops and malt, products of the countries will rise to 400 m. crowns the chemical, engineering and engineering, woodworking, textile, in the year beginning 1.4.59. The electrical engineering glass, ceramic, paper and agreement between CSR and the industries, agricultural and metallurgical Industries Belgian Congo was revised at the same metallurgical products and time non-ferrous netals

Hungary 24.12.58. 1.1.59. wool, wool and cotton rags food products, metal manufactures, The trade agreement which is the first 1.1.GO. and waste, rayon and wool machinery and machine tools, be concluded between Hungary and yarns, chemicals, ircn, industrial and domestic BeneluxjBucceeding the bilateral steel and other netallur- electrical equipment agreement between Hungary and the glcal products and Bel go-Luxe m burg Economic Union and electrical and non­ between Hungary and the Netherlands, electrical machinery provides for exchanges valued at somt; B.Frs.70G m. in each direction

No may 1.5.59. Extension of trade agreement 1.5.60.

Poland 3.3.59. machines and equipment, non- agricultural foodstuffs, metal The goods turnover In the exchange ferrous netals, chemical and products, pharmaceutical and between the Benelux countries and pharmaceutical goods, chemical goods, paper, glassware Poland will amount to ahaut $50 m. materials for the production and ceramics, textiles, products Payments Agreement also. First joint of films and photographic of art and cottage Industries, etc. agreement concluded by Ppland with paper and phosphorus these countries fertiliser

Sweden 28.2.59. The list of goods to be exchanged 28.2.69. between the two countries .remains the same as in the previous agreement which was extended

Switzerland 31.3.59, Extention of trade agreement 31.3.60. originally signed on 27.6.57.

United Kingdom 31.12.59. Increases were agreed In the number of quotas on both sides - 6 -

Date of EXPORTS IMPORTS Agreements of Initialling Validity values and principal values and principal Other details, remarks or signature goods goods BLEU East Germany 1.1.59. steel, chemical products, timber, agricultural machinery, textiles, Office de Recuperation Economique 31.12.59. textiles, leather, etc. glass, china, toys, sports goods, etc. (ORE) acting as the CONTRACTING PARTY on the Belgian side. Provision for an exchange of goods for a total value of B.Frs.610 m. In both directions

Spain 1.1«59. Extension of trade and payments 30.6.59. agreements signed on 23.4.49. and 6.8.56.

BRAZIL

See under Argentina

Chile The trade agreement between Brazil and Chile has been extended until the end of 1959 pending the completion of the proposed multi­ lateral agreement which will include both countries

BULGAR1A

See under Aust;r)g. East Germany. FpR. Germany and Rumania

Czechoslovakia 1961-65 lead, zinc, sulphur, soda, equipment for hydro-electric power electric motors, transformers, plants, for motors and for the wood­ railway wagons, machine tools, working Industry; also coke, rolled accumulators, as well as fruit, steel, machine tools, lorries and vegetables, wine, tobacco, oil passenger cars, textile machinery and meat and tractors, cellulose, paper and some chemicals

Finland 10.3.59. fresh and dried fruit, sugar, paper, pulp, products of the metal Establishment of annual goods list tobacco, machinery and equip­ and steel industries, sports 1n conformity with the stipulations ment and niscellaneous goods articles and hunting equipment of the commercial treaty of 25.1.57. between these two countries

Indonesia 27.1.59. 1 year equipment, ferrous metals, rubber, tea, copra, coffee, pepper Payment will be made in sterling agricultural implements and and spices, palm oil and pain kernel, tools, cement, industrial cocoa, rattan, etc. chemicals, cotton piece goods, wheat, flour, etc.

Israel 5.11.58. Iron and steel, draught horses, fruit, tires, chemicals, pharma­ Provision is made for trade to a 5.11.59. chemicals, pharmaceutical and ceutical products and textiles value of US$2 m. In each direction food products

Italy 25.2.59. Automatic prolongation of previous 25.2.60. agreement

Mainland China 1.1.60 material for power stations, cereals, tung oil, cotton, tires, Also payments agreement. Extension 31.12.02. machines, lead ingots, chemical animal products, electrical equipment, of present agreement covering fertiliser, sugar beet seeds, silk, etc. period 1958-60. Increase in trade etc. in 1959 over 1958 foreseen

Spain agricultural machinery and tools, citrus and other fresh fruit, dried Value of each country's export is chemical and pharmaceutical fruit, olives and olive oil, cocoa fixed at US|3.5 m. products, iron and steel and cocoa products, textiles, cork, furs and canned fish

United Kingdom 27.2.59. fruit and vegetables, electrical machinery, textile manufactures, motor Also exchange of notes concerning 31.3.62. equipment, carpets, timber, vehicles, radio, television and financial agreement of 22.9.55., oilseeds, essential oils and telegraph communications equipment, providing for an accelerated debt maize chemicals, iron and steel repayment. Import quotas to be negotiated annually. Quota for period ending 31.3.60. £5.5 m. for Imports from the United Kingdom and £2.5 m. far Imports into United Kingdom (timber, oilseeds, essential oils and maize not subject to import quotas in the United Kingdom). Also the two governments undertake not to discriminate against each others shipping

Japan 19.11.58. Under the terras of this agreement Japan will supply cotton textiles and/or yarns against cotton recently made available lo Burma by the United States. This .;ould be. in part- payr.ent. Tiie value of the cotton will be abcut 16.5 m. - 7 -

Date of EXPORTS IMPORTS Agreements Initialling Validity values and principal values and principal Other details, remarks of or signature. goods goods

CAM BOD IA

Czechoslovakia 5.2.59. The bilateral trade agreement has 5.2.60. been extended for another year

North Vietnam 19.11.58. 1 year Provides for a two-way trade, worth £3 m.

Japan 2.3.59. 3- years Economic and technical co-operation has been envisaged, with exchanges amounting to approximately $42 m.

CHILE

See under Brazl

Argentina end of April 150,000 tons of coal, 100,000 tons 50,000 tons of wheat, 50,000 heads 1959 of ore, steel and wood of cattle, newsprint, semi-refined oil and oilseeds, lard, butter and refined oil

CHINA (MAINLAND)

See under Albania. Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia

East Germany 1959 rice, oilseeds, various raw heavy Industrial products, some Also payments agreement materials and consumer goods chemicals and consumer goods

Finland to rice, tin, antimony machinery for the paper industry, The exchange of goods between the two 31.10.59. paper, copper, etc. countries will be maintained at its present level. Last year Finland exported to China goods to the value of FM.2.7 milliard and Imported from that country worth FM.1.2 milliard

Hungary 17.3.59. 1.1.59. metals, minerals, ail bearing complete sets of equipment, 31.12.59. seeds, raw. materials for the machinery for thermo-power stations, chemical Industry and for the electrical equipment, instruments, textile Industry, machinery and rolled steel and pharmaceuticals consumer goods

India 25.5.59. 31.12.59. Extension of trade agreement concluded i" 1954

North Vietnam 13.2.59. 1960-62 rolled steel, fire resistant coal, phosphorate rock, cement, Also protocol on aid for 1959 and materials, locomotives, machinery chromite, white cotton cloth, timber,agreem3nt in commodity exchanges of equipment, chemical materials, tea, jute, coffee, cardamom, etc. most of the above-listed goods for cotton, iron pyrites, paper, 1959 in addition to the long-term consumer and other goods trade agreement y • • ... •• -

Poland 1959 The exchange of goods under the new agreement foresees a ]0$ increase over the level attained In 1958 (365 m. exchange slotys compared with 350 m. slotys)

Rumania 22.3.59. soya beans, mineral ores, drilling equipment, blowing engines, Under the protocol for 1959 two-way aninal products, tea, silk power station equipnont, cement trade is to be inpreased. Also fabrics and consumer goods plant equipment, tractors, «il tank payments agreement cars and petroleum products

USSR 25.2.59. 1959 tin, tungsten, molybdenum, mercury, complete sets of industrial equip- The volume of trade between the two raw silk, tea, citrus fruit and ment, power equipment, turbo- countries will be considerably other goods Including cotton generator sets, diesel generators, increased, envisaging reciprocal trade mobile power stations, small hydro- deliveries to the value of nearly power stations for use in rural 7,200 m. roubles areas

Yugoslavia 1959 The trade agreement provides for a contraction of more jthan GO? in the exchange of goods between the two countries. The value of the goods to be exchanged is given as £1.25 m. In both directions compared with exchanges valued at W.5 m. last yoar Date of EXPORTS IMPORTS Agreements of Initialling Validity values and principal values and principal Other details, remarks or signature goods goods

COLOMBIA

Ecuador 26.6.59. Three agreements covering trade, payments and economic co-operation. The trade treaty lists over 300 commodities selected for interchange between the two countries. Each country grants the other unlimited most-favoured-nation treatment. The economic co-operation agreement forms the general basis for the economic Integration of the countries. Political, fiscal and customs exchange and monetary policy measures are envisaged

Finland Existing trade agreement extended until 31.12.59.

Spain Under the terms sf the clearing agreement Spain will Import not less than 6,000 tons of Colombian coffee a year during a period of five years with payment to be made In pesetas

CUBA

Japan The provisional trade agreement, providing for most-favourad-oatlon treatment,between Japan and Cuba which was signed in , has been extended ior a period of six months, ending 31.12.59.

Peru 24.4.59. 15.5.59. Temporary trade and customs agreement. 15.11.59. A permanent trade treaty at present under study

CYPRUS

United Arab December 1958 cheese t: a value of £15,000 cement of egual value Cyprus export trade with the United Republic Arab Republic Is expected to reach a value of £1 m. a year after the island Dfficially becomes an Independent country

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

See under Benelux< Bulgaria, Carhjdi; and the United Kînqdom

China (Mainland) 1.1.60. i ipltal goods, among them power raw materials, Including minerals, Also a contract covering exchange of 31,12,62. stations, complete chemical and cotton, wheat, fodder and edible goods in 1959 was concluded, according metallurgical plants, electric oils to which trade between the two motors and locomotives, and countries will increase by 12? this machine tools year

Denmark 1.6.59, Czechoslovakia has obtained Denrari< has obtained yearly quotas The agreement provides for yearly 31.5.52. yearly quotas for CZ.Kr.13 m„ fur .agricultural products amounting exchanges :f D„Kr..70 m in both for rolling material, CZ.KrJ D- to D„Kr.33 m., as «ell as for fish directions^ Discussion will take for chemical products, CZ.Kr-,20 n.oil, hides and skins,- and machines place each year in order to.fix new for transport material, CZ.Kr.8 n. quotas for textiles, CZ..Kr,9 m. for glass and china ware

East Genany 29.1.59. 1961-65 coke, chemical products, potash fertilisers, liynite bricks. machines snd consumer goods synthetic rubber, chemical products, machines and consumer goods

FjR. Germany '24.1.59. 1.1,59. The agreement provides for trade 31.12.59. exchanges,including services, amounting to $113 m. both wa;s for this year. The agreed level of SI 10 m. for 1958 was In fact exceeded by §WS m.

Finland 23.2.59. automobiles, motocycles, tractors,cellulose, timber, wood fibre board, According \.o the agreement trade will textiles, sugar, chemicals, paper and leather increase by 15? in 1959 over 1958 rolled steel products, glass, etc. - 9 -

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CZECHOSLOVAKIA (continued)

Guinea The agreement forsees the exchange of goods amounting to several million dollars for the present year and envisages for the beginning of 1960 a long-term agreement elaborated on the basis of the economic development programme of Guinea

India 30.5.59. welding machines, compressors, ore, manganese ore, oilseeds, hides Protocol to the Indian-Czechoslovaklan building machinery, textile and skins, mica, spices, tea and trade agreement of 1951. The protocol machinery, equipment for grain shellac provides for a substantial increase mills, diesel locomotives, diesel over the level of 170 m. rupees In generating sets, alloy steel, 1958 hospital' equipment, asbestos, cement, tubes, heat resistant material, chemicals, hops and malt

Italy 1.4.59. Provisions have been made In the 31.3.60. extension of the previous agreement to increase the exchange of certain goods. Imports 1 n"the first eleven months of'T958'(1957) were 6 (4'.6), exports 7.1 (7.0) milliard lira.

North Vietnam 1.12.50. 2 years pumps, metal-cutting machines, rice, oil bearing seeds and tin Also payments agreement. Agreement bicycles, tires, rolled steel provides for an increase in trade in products and paper 1959 of 172 over 1958 and of 302 In 1960

Norway to Dec. Norwegian Imports will Include Increases for quotas In respect of Extension of trade agreement dated 1959 Increases to quotas in respect of Norwegian exports will Include fish 20.3.47. The latter agreement has motor cars, textiles, sugar, malt, oil, fish meal and ferro alloys, and not yet been formally signed hops, glassware and tools smaller Increases for fatty acids, chemicals and machinery

Rumania 1959 coke, coking coal, rolled steel, oil products, bauxite, cement, Trade between Czechoslovakia and pipes, machinery and equipment for chemical products, road rollers, Rumania will be 17$ higher than under hydro-electric power stations and electric motors, transformers, last year's trade agreement for the chemical industry, turbo railway wagons, wine, grapes, other sets fruit and vegetables

Spain 24.1.59. 1 year Extension of a previous agreement. The value of trade between the two countries has been estimated at US38.14 m. In each direction and the reciprocal credit, fixed previously at. US$1.6 m., has been increased to USJ2.6 m.

United Arab 1959 3 years industrial equipment cotton The agreement p,rovjdes for an exchange Republic of goods to the_ value of £E.30 m.

Yugoslavia'-' 17.2.59. machinery, rolled steel products, farm and food products, raw materials coking coal, raw materials for the for the chemical, metallurgical and chemical and ceramics Industries, wood-processing industries, and serai- sugar and other consumer goods finished products

DENMARK

See under Austria and Czechoslovakia

F.R. Germany end of 1958 1.1,.59. (quotas for) cattle and pigs (live (quotas for non-liberalized goods) The validity of this agreement will 31,12.61. or slaughtered),brewlng barley, wines and spirits, confectionery, be prolonged- automatically for a seeds, plants and cut flowers and motor-assisted bicycles and parts, further year unless denounced before other agricultural products as domestic electrical appliances, the end nf well as flax and some textiles leather goods, shoes and toys

Greece 3.1.59. 25.8.58.. Danish Import quotas for Greek goods 24.8.59. (in thousands of Danish Kr.) tomato puree (75), fresh grapes (400), . . peaches and apricots (100), orange, lemon and grapefruit juice in retail packing (100), wine and alcoholic drinks (500), miscellaneous goods (50)

Hungary 17.3.59. 1.3.59. . machinery, cloth, fish products, finished textile goods, textile The agreement provides for exchanges 31,8.60. Instruments, plastic materials and materials, machinery, electric bulbs of approximately D.Kr.30 p. In each pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical products direction for the 18-month period

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Date of EXPORTS ' IMPORTS Agreements of Initialling Validity values and principal values and principal Other details, remarks or signature goods goods

FRANCE (continued)

Rumania Extension of quota'arrangements under financial and trade agreement of ' 17.2.58 from 1.1.59 to 31.3.59.

Sweden 19.5.59. 1.4.59. agricultural products, thorough­ fish, mineral and chemical 31.3.60. bred and breeding horses, auto­ products, wood and paper, glass mobiles and trucks and ceramics, frsn craeltin; ;>nducts, mechanical and elec­ trical equipment

Switzerland 18.4.59. 31 12.59. Retroactively as from 1.1.59. industrial quotas have beeri Increased by come 20?, the theoretical value of these qi'itcj to exceed S.Frs.38 m.

United Kingdom 30.4.59. French quotas on Imports from the United Kingdcm have been increased by as aera.] 2<] ->er cer.i. Increases have \-^n granted !ii the quotas for British confectionery, biscuits, textiles and niade-up clothing, synthetic yarns crd fibres and flax yarns, tea, agricul­ tural tractors, refrigeration equip­ ment.- excavating and goods handling equipment, machine tools and metal furniture, and whisky. Quotas for some "non-essential" British exports to Algeria have ah: l-een raised, [few qu:tas have been j;:ened f-7 France for computors, steel wocl, 3]] additives and some other items

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

See under Denmark

Morocco March 1959 1.1.59, agricultural machinery, tractors, agricultural products including

31.12.59, textile nachinery, mot-.r bulbsf cut flowers, vegetable.';,, vehicles, electrical equ?,-merci,, fodder jra':s, fruit juicj'a:d photographic apparatus, medical wine and dental equipment and snail amounts of agricultural produce

New Zealand 20.4.59. 2 years the quotas for which New Zealand The agreement does net make any special has the right to tender are: arrangeants regarding German exports 6,500 t. beef, 250 t. canned neat, to New Zealand. The quotas will be 250 t. mutton and lamb, 750 t, subject to annual review buttermilk powder, DM.3.5 m. for apples and pears, DM.1.0 ra. for clover and grass seeds, DM.1.0 n. for meat extracts, DM.0.6 n. for bloodmeal and dried blood and DM,0.25 m. for frozen and canned vegetables. No fixed quotas have been established for full cream and skimmed milk powder, butter, cheese or honey, but tlew Zealand had been granted the right to compete for whatever volume of these commodities the German Government decided to Import

Poland The trade agreement between the two countries will remain In force for the year 1959 ..

Portugal 2.6,60. 30.3.59. Accord on the exchange of goods, also protocol on general economic co-operation aiming at broadening the basis of the existing economic relations

Spain 30.4.60 Automatic extension of trade agreement - 12 -

Date of EXPORTS IMPORTS Agreements of Initialling Validity values and principal values and principal Other details, remarks or signature goods goods

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (continued)

USSR 1959 Investment goods and others 700,000 t. crude oil, 300,000 t. fuel The agreement provides for an exchange oil, 120,000 t. diesel oil and other of goods to the value of DM.520 m. In goods each direction. This amount is some­ what greater than the one agreed upon under the 1958 agreement. The USSR lias agreed to canael the arrangement for the delivery of 500,000 t. of coal originally contemplated within the framework of the long-term agreement between the two countries Bulgaria 8.6.59 1.4.59. 30.3.60. Exchange of goods to the value of DM142 m. in each direction FEDEU10H OF RHODESIA AND WAS ALAND Union of South Africa The Government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland has decided to terminate its trade agreement with South Africa at the expiration of the five-year trade agreement concluded In 1955, i.e. at the end of

F1 HAND

See under Bulgaria, China (Mainland) and Colombia

East Germany 1.1.59. wood and wood products, card­ vehicles and machine tools, Also payments agreement 31.12.59. board, kraft paper, cellulose engineering products and chemicals and miscellaneous Items

Hungary 22.4.59. 1.7.59. Extension of commercial treaty of 31.12.59. 25.9.48. Mutual exchange of commodities will take place according to the quota lists attached to the eight additional protocol signed on 22.3.57. The quotas will be applied on a pro rata basis. The payments agreement of 25.9.48. will remain valid

Iceland 3.2.59. 1.2.59. timber, newsprint, machinery fresh and frozen fish Both countries agreed to facilitate to 31.1.60. and equipment the greatest possible extent the exchange of all types of goods

Ireland 29.4.59, 1.4.59. Finland will grant all the necessary Extension of agreement signed for 31.3.60. facilities fir the importation of mutual trade on 1.6.57. the following goods of Irish origin: woollen and worsted piece goods, various textiles, rope and rope products, leather, etc.

Israel 1.1.59. wood pulp, timber, paper and citrus fruit, textiles, clothing, 31.12.59. cardboard chemicals, pharmaceuticals, motor vehicles and parts, and polished diamonds

Morocco The trade agreement between Morocco and Finland dated 12.2.58. has been extended for a further period »f eight months to 31.5.59. with quotas having been extended pro rata temper)s

Rumania 13.4.59. 31.12.59. Extension of protocol signed on 27.2.58.

Spain The protocol to the Finnish-Spanish trade agreement of 31.5.59. has been axtended until 15.11.59.

USSR 13.3.59. 1.1.59. ships, machinery for the wheat, rye, barley, sugar and Trade between the two countries is 31.12.59, woodpulp and paper industry, vehicles expected to be about 15? greater than forest products last year and to reach a value of mire than 1,100 m. roublaa» Among Finnish exports the quotas for metal products exceed those In 1958, whereas those for forest products are lower. The increase In Finnish Imports covers almost all products - 13 -

- Date of ~ ~ EXPORTS IMPORTS Agreements of Initialling Validity values and principal values and principal Other details, remarks or signature goods goods EAST GERMANY See under Austria. BLEU. Bulgaria. China (Mainland). Czechoslovakia and Finland' Bulgaria 1961-65 chemical products, industrial agricultural products; electro- plants, ;nd equipment technical and machine-building products Lebanon The existing trade agreement has been extended until 31.12.59. For the year 1959 a turnover of Leb.£7 m. kn each side is being envisaged

Mongolia 20.11.58, •pharmaceutical and food- meat, wool, camelhair, furs and processing equipment, cameras other animal products and other consumer goods

North Korea 30.1.59. 31.12.61. machine tools, equipment for the non-ferrous metals, mining products, Protocol to the long-term trade agree­ metallurgical Industry including chemical industry manufactures, oil, ment signed on 22.2.57. Two-way trade transport equipment, optical and fruit and rice is to be trebled chemical products

Norway The Norwegian Compensation Company and the East German Foreign Trade Chamber have agreed on an exchange of goods in 1959 to a tot?.l value of N.Kr.113 m. The 1958 agreement provided for a trade Volume of N»Kp»118 m.

Rumania 17.3.59. 1959-65 complete installations for the export equipment for the mineral The protocol foresees an increase of building industry, fir the oil Industry, railroad material and exchanges of 50? over the exchanges chemical, textile, food products, other products of the machine realised in 1953 paper and wood industries, as building Industry, chemical products, well as chemical fertilisers, timber and consumer goods synthetic fibres, synthetic rubber, chemical products and medicaments

United Kingdom chemical fertilisers, paraffin textiles, plastics, chemicals, iron It is planned to exchange about £7 n. wax, carpets, furniture, pottery and steel, scientific Instruments, worth of gaods on both sides, including and pcrcelain, musical Instru- radio and television equipment, about £2 m. worth of imports by both ments, scientific instruments and industrial plant and machinery parties under licence, and the purchase machinery through London of goods of non-United- Kingdom origin in the region jf £3,500,000

Yugoslavia 22.12.58, 1.1.59 The total volume of trade between the 31.12.59. two countries was fixed at 370 m. The volume of trade in 1958 had been approximately 368 m., or $18 m. higher than had originally been estimated

GHANA

USSR The two countries have signed a preliminary trade agréeront aimed at "developing and strengthening commercial relations between the two countries". The possibility of a nore formal agree­ ment will be studied b? a Ghana trade mission expected to visit Russia within the next twelve months

GREECE

See under Austria and Denmark

The agreement pcovi-des for exchanges Hungary 1.1.59. tobacco, skins, cotton, citrus livestock products and other 31.12.59. fruit and ores agricultural produce, chemicals to the value of 85 m. in each and equipment goods direction

Tacit renewal of trade agreement of Italy 30.6.60. 10.11.54. and of the additional protocol of 22.12.55.

The trade protocol of 12.5.55. has been Norway further extended until 31.12.59.

Extension of the protocol to the trade Portugal 1.1.59. 31.12.59. agreement for a period of one year Date of EXPORTS IMPORTS Agreements of Initialling Validity values and principal values and principal Other details, remarks or signature goods goods

GUINEA

See under Czechoslovakia

Poland iron ore, raw materials textiles, metal goods, rubber foot- The payments will be made in French wear, certain types of machinery francs and eguipment

USSR 13.2.59. coffee, bananas, pineapple, etc. tractors, agricultural machines, The two countries have agreed on motor vehicles, rolled ferrous reciprocal most-favoured-nation metals, ill products and sawn treatment . timber

.ITI

Japan 17.12.58, The treaty provides for most-favoured­ nation and national treatment and'calls for trade development and economic co-operation between the two countries. Upon ratification Haiti will disinvoke Article XXXV of the GATT

HUNGARY

See under China (Mainland), Denmark, Finland, France and Greece

Iceland 13.1.59. 1.1.59. ' Extension of the trade and payments 31.12.59. agreement of 6.3.53.

Morocco 1.11.58. Extension of trade agreement of 30.4.59. 7.12.57.

North Korea 1961-65 aluminium Ingots, Instruments, non-ferrous metals, carbides and chemicals, machinery and complete agricultural products factory installations

North Vietnam I years complete factory installations, vegetable oils, oil seeds, chemical machines, electrical goods, radio materials, timber and handicraft components and precision goods goods

Norway 1.5.58. china and glass, fresh fruit, paper, wood pulp, synthetic fibres 31.12.59. clothing and cotton fabrics

Sweden 1.2.59. quotas for aluminium cable, furs, certain quotas, including those for 31.1.60. pharmaceutical raw materials and Swedish iron and metal products, seeds have been increased and a various kinds of engineering equip­ new quota for deep-frojen fruit ment, cellulose pulp, medical and has been included ether scientific instruments and pharmaceuticals, have been Increased. New quotas have been established for pedigree animals, hides, round timber, paper and leather

United Arab 3 years capital equipment, Including rail- cotton, etc, Republic cars and electric gear

USSR December 1958 1.1.59. The protocol envisages a 152 increase 31.12.59. in exchanges aver 1958

Yugoslavia 23.12.58. 1959 machines and equipment, chemical timber products, paper, chemicals, The lists of goods to be exchanged In products and rolled materials railway freight cars and products of 1959 on the bilateral account provide the non-ferrous metals industry for an increase in trade by about 15-20? in comparison with deliveries in 1958

ICELAND

See under Finland and Hungary

Poland -31.12.60. herrings, cod-liver oil, fish coal, textiles, chemical goods, The yalue of the mutual deliveries will meal, hides rolled steel, foodstuffs, wood amount to about 18 m. foreign currency products and other industrial slotys for the period April 1959 to products - 15 -

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INDIA

See under China (Mainland) and Czechoslovakia

Indonesia 30.6.59. cotton, textiles and yarn, jute copra and coconut oil, palm kernels Extension of agreement originally goods, tobacco, linseed oils, and oil, essential oils, spices concluded in January 1953 hardware, pharmaceutical products Including betel nuts, timber, tin, and chemical preparations, tea rubber, hides and skins, canes and chests, sports goods, rubber tires rattans, gums and resins, tanning and tubes, porcelain ware, paper materials, sisal fibre and tobacco and boards, machinery, including wrappers agricultural Implements, diesel engines, sugar-cane crushers, textile machinery, electrical equipment including motors and batteries, sewing machines and other household utensils

Ireq 18.5.59. 18.5.59. textiles, tea, engineering goods, agricultural goods, particularly The agreement does not set limits to, 17.5.60. diesel engines, textile machinery, dates, hides and skins or proportions for, trade exchanges motor-cars, electrical goods and between the two countries. Most­ appliances favoured-nation treatment will be accorded each other

jngolla 14.1.59. jute goods, tea, coffee, mica, wool, hides and skins, furs, meat The goods are those listed as avail­ shellac, manganese ore, coir and and butter, live animals and able by the respective countries. coir manufactures, tobacco, Binerais Payments are to be effected in non­ carpets, leather manufactures, transferable Indian rupees. The sale handloom products, light engineer­ and purchase of goods between the two ing goods and electrical countries would be by means of con­ appliances tracts entered into by the foreign trade organisations of the Mongolian People's Republic and the State Trading Corporation of India as well as private parties in India

Poland January 1959 .31.12.59. Extension of validity of revised lists of goods in fprce under trade agree­ ment concluded on 12.3.58,

Rumania M.5.59. long-term iron ore, iron alloys, raw Industrial installations and materials for textiles, hides, equipment, equipment for the oil vegetable oils, pepper and Industry, electrical equipment, coffee machine tools, tractors, steam rollers, diesel engines, chemical and pharmaceutical products, etc.

Sweden -31.12.59. The following commodities have been added to the list of Items avail­ Extension of (Jay 1955 agreement able for export from India to Sweden: torth brushes and shaving (revised June 1957) which is valid brushes with'nyTon bristles, tents, surgical dressings such as for an Indefinite period, subject to bandages etc., lyeopodiutn, cotton wool, prawns and other canned termination by either party after provisions, knitting wool, animal casings, pearls and precious stones three month's notice

USSR January 1959 5 years tea, coffee, spices, raw hides industrial plant and equipment, The schedule of goods to be reviewed and skins, tobacco, mica, raw heavy electrical plant and equip­ annually wool and woollen cloth, jute ment, mining and road-building manufactures, coir and coir equipment, tractors and agricul­ products, handicrafts, essential tural machinery and implements, oils, etc. textile machinery, crude petro­ leum and petroleum products and other equipment

Yugoslavia Supplementary protocol to the 1956 trade agreement. Payments henceforth to be made In rupees

INDONESIA

See under Bulgaria and India

Pakistan sugar, copra, spices, rubber, raw cotton, dates, sports goods, Extension for a six-month period of essential oils, timber and tin jute bags, hessian cl«th and an agreement originally enacted for cottage industry products the calendar year 1953

IRAN

Italy 10.2.59. The Italo—Iranian trade agreement of 9.2.60. 29.1.58. has tacitly been extended for one year 16 -

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IRAN (continued)

United Kingdom 11.3,59. The Treaty of Commerce and Navigation provides most-favoured-natlon treat­ ment in respect of customs duties and quotas, "national treatment" In respect of shipping and taxation and "equitable treatment" in respect of a variety of establishment matters. This treaty supersedes a treaty of commerce concluded 56 years ago

IRAQ

See under India

Rumania December 1958 The agreement provides for most­ favoured-nation treatment. It stipulates that the value of Rumania's Imports from Iraq must not be less than 25? of the value of its exports to Iraq. A technical and scientific agreement was signed at the same time

IRELAND

See under Finland

ISRAEL

See under Bulgaria and Finland

Now Zealand 3.2.59. Israel agrees In principle to purchase annually 1,000 tons of meat from that country. Israel is also to purchase wool, hides, lumber, alls and whale meat. New Zealand on its part is to reduce dlscriminatjry tariffs on Israeli goods

Norway 1.11.58. citrus fruit, textiles and froien and smoked fish, fishmeal, Extension of trade agreement with no 31.10.59. chemicals chemicals and paper products change In substance

Poland . April 1959 1.4.59. phosphates, cotton and woollen machines, agricultural and food 31.3.60. fabrics products and chemicals

Yugoslavia tires, citrus fruit, chemical timber, zinc, lead and aluminium and pharmaceutical products, products, tobacco and metallurgical packing cardboard, textiles, products diamonds for Industrial use and dentistry material

ITALY

See under Austria, Bulgaria, CzechosUyafcia and Iran

Spain The trade agreement of 26.3.52 and the fifth additional protocol of 8.5.58. between Italy and Spain have been tacitly renewed as of 1.4.59.

Syria The Italo—Syrian trade agreement, which was signed In Damascus on 10.11.55., has been tacitly renewed for a further year from 27.2.59.

Tunisia Prolongation of trade agreement signed on 0.4.58. until 1.4.59.

United Arab 29.4.59. Under the agreement Italian spinners Republic are to be enabled to buy Egyptian cotton at a premium of 35? on the official exchange value of the lira against the £E (formalization of previous privileges to hard-currency purchases) - 17 -

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ITALY (continued)

Yugoslavia 2'. .3.59. 24.3.59.» Supplementary protocol to the l.talo- Yugoslavian Trade Agreement of 31.3.55. The Italian Government will allow free Import of all Yugoslavian products with a few exceptions, namely oxen, pigs, draught horses and horses for slaughter, tanned pigskins and refractories, and some other products for which quotas have been established

JAPAN

See under Cambodia, Cuba, France and Haiti

Morocco 23.12.58. 24.12.58. Extension of trade agreement con­ 23.12.59. cluded 15.5.58,

Sweden Under the new agreement Sweden will be able to increase its exports to" Japan; last year Sweden's Import surplus with Japan amounted to S.Kr.87 m., exports accounting for S.Kr.31.5 m. and Imports for S.Kr.118.5 ID.

United Kingdom 31.3.59. Extension of agreement of 25.4.58. 31.3.50. The quotas in the year ending 31.3.60. sill be the same as in the year ending 31.3.59.

Yugoslavia 28.2.59. Treaty rf Supersedes Treaty of 1923. Both Commerce and Governments undertake to accord each Navigation other most-favoured-nation or indefinite national treatient. Provision is subject to made for the enforcement of six months commercial arbitration awards notice of termination by either side

LAOS

Vietnam 15.5.59. Commercial, payments and other agreements

LEBANON

See under East Germany

MALAYA

See under Australia

MONGOLIA

See under East Germany and India

North Viel:na m 15.1.59. leather, wool, livestock products silk and satin products, and jther consumer goods

MOROCCO

See under Austria. Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, Hungary and Japan

Spain phosphates and iron ore fruit, seeds, fuels, minerals, Establishment of new lists of exports chemical and pharmaceutical under the existing agreement of products, textiles, machinery and 7.7.57. rubber tires

NETHERLANDS

Spain 1.1.59. 30.5.59. Extension of trade agreement

NEW ZEALAND - 18 -

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NORTH KOREA

See under Albania. East Germany and Hungary

North Vietnam 1.12.58. chemical fertilisers, copper wire apatite, chromium, tin, jute, etc, Also payments agreement and medicines

Rumania 16.2.59. 1.1.59. non-ferrous metals, special steel, locomotives, tractors, tractor 31.12.59. cotton, sesame, chemical products, ploughs, chemical products etc.

VIETNAM

See under Albania, Cambodia. China (Mainland). Hungary. Mongolia and North Korea

Rumania 12.1.59. 2 years tin, rice, tea, jute, shelled petroleum products, machinery for Two-way trade will Increase by 100? (1959-iO)' groundnuts, apatite, shellac the cement industry, transformers, this year and by 130? during 1960 other machinery, chemicals, over 1958 figures pharmaceuticals

NORWAY

See under Benelux, Czechoslovakia. Greece. Hungary and Israel

Poland 1.6.59. herrings, fats, various chemical coal, sugar, agricultural produce Protocol to existing trade and pay­ 31.5.60. products, iron ore, aluminium, and foods, textiles, chemicals, ments agreement, providing for cellulose and various kinds of mineral articles, machines and trade of about N.Kr.68 m. during machine* and marine equipment equipment, etc. the year ending 31.5.60. between the two countries Sweden 6.4.59. New protocol to the trade agreement. 31.12.59.

PAKISTAN

See under Indonesia

PARAGUAY

See under Argentina

PERU

See under Cuba ;

POLAND

See under Benelux. China (Mafnland). Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Guinea. Iceland, India, Israel and Norway

Rumania 2.2.59. 1959 There is to be a 2555 increase in turnover in 1959 over 1958.

Spain coal, machine tools, textile citrus fruit, iron ore, hides, Additional protocol to the Polish- machines, lorries, chemicals, etc. Spanish Payments Agreement of 1957. paper mill equipment, building The new lists provide for a consider­ and mining materials able Increase in transactions

Sweden 1.5.59. coal, coke, metallurgical and ores, machinery, apparatus and The Increase in Polish exports of 30.4.60. chemical products, agricultural instruments, high quality steel and metallurgical products, coal and produce, textiles and articles of steel products, ball bearings, agricultural produce will be wood paper and chemical products considerable. Protocol to Polish- Swedish Trade Agreement

Yugoslavia 22.12.58. 1959-65 complete factories and installa­ marine diesel engines and other tions for the chemical, machine ship-building products tool and other industries and rolled metal products

PORTUGAL

See under Federal Republic of Germany and Greece

Spain The validity of the list of goods drawn up by the joint Spanish- Portuguese Commission In has been extended for six months to 30.6.59. - 19 -

Date of EXPORTS IMPORTS Agreements of Initialling Validity values and principal values and principal Other details, renarks or signature goods values RUMANIA See under Albania. Austria. China (Mainland). Czechoslovakia. East Germany, Finland. France. India. Iraq, North Korea, Horth Vietnam, Poland Bulgaria 12.2.59. petroleum products, electrical Iron bars, ammonium nitrate, barita, and oil industry tquipment, salt, caolln glass, etc. USSR 2.2.59. 1.1.59. laminated products, iron ore, coke, Total foreign trade between both 31.12.59, various metals In Ingots, industrial countries amounted to 1,763 m. roubles equipment, cotton, etc. In 1957. The agreement foresees an increase of the present exchanges

Yugoslavia 13.4.59. 1.U59. oil products, machinery, machinery, ships, chemicals, salt The total value of the trade is 31.12.59, chemicals, glass, newsprint, and canned fish envisaged to amount to US$5 m. in paper each direction

SPAIN

See under Austria, Bulgaria. Colombia. Federal Republic af Germany, Finland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland and Portugal

United Kingdom 21.2.59. 1 year a new quota of £5,000 has been The protocol provides for more extension Introduced for granite." The flexibility under the existing trade quotas for tanned sheep- «and agreement. An escape clause has been goatskins and sporting guns have introduced providing for revision if been raised to £35,000 and Spain should become a full member of £50,000 respectively the 0EEC during the validity of the agreement

Yugoslavia The agreement signed on 14.1.58. has been extended for one year. Trade between the two countries is expected to amount to USJ5 m. In each direction

SUDAN

USSR 15.3.59. 1 year cotton, peanuts, sesame and machinery and equipment, rolled The agreement concluded for one year other Sudanese staple export ferrous metal, sawn timber, sugar, with the possibility of automatic goods etc. extension'is on a barter.basis; envisages most-favoured-nation treat­ ment In trade and shipping

SWEDEN

See under Benelux, France, Hungary, India, Japan, Norway and Poland

Tunisia , . The trade agreement has been extended for three months, I.e. until 30.6.59.

SWITZERLAND

See under Benelux and the Dominican Republic

United Kingdom . . In connection with a visit by a Swiss delegation from 30 June to 2 July In London quotas for some goods still subject to restrictions were reviewed and some Increases were agreed. Apart from this the existing trade agreement will continue unchanged

SYRIA

See under Italy and the United Arab Republic

TUNISIA

See under Italy and Sweden

UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC

See under Cyprus. Hungary,. Italy an,d Syria •

USSR

See under Afghanistan, Argentina, China (Mainland). Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, Ghana. Ethiopia. Guinea. Hungary, India. Rumania Sudan, United Kingdom and Yugoslavia

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

See under Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland - 20 -

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UNITED KINGDOM

See under Benelux. East Germany. El Salvador. France. Hungary^ Iran. Japan, Spain. Switzerland

Czechoslovakia Provisional quotas for 1959 established

USSR 24.5.59. 1.7.59, equipment for chemical industry grain, timber and timber products, For trade In consumer goods listed 30.6.59. (especially for the manufacture wood pulp, manganese ore, asbestos, above additional quotas to the value of synthetic materials and fibres) ferro alloys, non-ferrous metals, of approximately £2 m. on each side equipment for pulp and paper mineral fertilisers and flax, will be granted during the first year industry, forging, stamping and motor cars, cameras, watches, of the agreement, for the san» casting equipment, metal working matches, toys, handmade carpets, period the two Governments look machine tools, equipment for the medicines, handicrafts, tinned forward to a substantial increase of electro-technical and cable crab, vodka, wines and brandies trade in both directions. A new industry, equipment and Instruments treaty of commerce and navigation to for the automation of production replace the previous commercial processes, pumping, compressor agreement of 1934 is contemplated and refrigeration equipment, equipment for food, building and the light Industries, in addition to toys, cured herring and white- fish and also consumer gjods, motor vehicles, textile manu­ factures, machine-made carpets, leather goods, medicines, photo­ graphic materials, sports goods, musical instruments, industrial products and raw materials customarily brought from United Kingdom firms

Yugoslavia 29.6.59. 1.7.59. The agreement is expected to increase 30.6.60. trade between the two countries. Only 2? of the total future trade will develop through fixed quotas. The rest will be completely liberalized. British exports are expected to be between £13 m. and £15 m. Yugoslavia is expected to export goods to Britain worth a minimum £15 m., but the value is envisaged eventually to be increased to £18 m.—£19 m.

VIETNAM

See under Laos

YUGOSLAVIA

See under Austria. China (Mainland). Czechoslovakia. East Germany. Ecuador. Israel. Italy. Rumania. Spain. India. Japan. United Kingdom

USSR 28.1.5ÎJ. 1.1.59. steel tubes, copper, rolled stock, wheat, coal, oil, ferrous rolled The agreement envisages exchanges 31.12.59. cables, cement, woollens and stock, machinery and equipment, totalling $108 m. ($16 m. less than other commodities medicines last year)

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