New Treaties To Expand Polish Trade

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 41, 14 January 1949, Page 4

New Treaties To Expand Polish Trade

New trade agreements will help' Poland to expand her foreign trade in 1949. , A Polish delegation in Moscow has been negotiating an additional one-year Soviet-Polish goods . exchange agreement. The Benelux countries—Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg—-have signed a trade agreement in Brussels. It provides for export to Benelux countries of Polish grain, potatoes, eggs, sugar, timber, chemicals, cotton, textiles, china and arts andicrafts products, to the value of 1200 million Belgian francs. In exchange Poland will receive capital goods, industrial raw materials, chemicals, pharmaceutical goods and palm oil. Polish railway coaches are being exported to the Middle East under trade agreements. In Stockholm, an important Pol-ish-Swedish agreement, which provides Poland with hard currency and capital goods, has been ratified. Trade talks are also being conducted between Poland and Norway, and Hungary and Poland have signed for exchange of goods worth 10 million dollars on each side. Polish-British and Polish-Danish trade talks have been going on for several weeks, with the object of. expanding mutual • trade. FrenchPolish and Rumanian-Polish trade talks are also . under way. Poland is also carrying on trade negotiations with the Argentine in Buenos Aires.