EXPORTS TO RUSSIA
TRADE WITH UNITED STATES FULL INFORMATION SOUGHT WASHINGTON, Rec. 9.30 p.m. Dec. 1 The House Commerce Committee today shelved a Bill calling on the Administration for full information about exports to Russia after the Secretary 1 of Commerce, Mr William Foster, gave evidence that trade with the Soviet Union brought the United States highly important metal ores. Representative Kali Mundt (Repubican, South Dakota), sponsor of the Bill which the committee failed to act, had told the committee earlier that “sending machine tools and locomotives to Russia is strangely reminiscent of sending scrap iron to Japan.” Mr Foster said that the Russian shipments to the United States in the past three months were worth 26.500,000 dollars compared with the United States exports to Russia, 22,800,000 dollars, but he declined to name the American business men who made the shipments. He said that Russia's shipments include ores which the United States would find it especially difficult to get elsewhere. A third of Ihe manganese ores, a half of the chrome ore and over half of the platinum imported by the United States in 1947 came from Russia."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26634, 3 December 1947, Page 5
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188EXPORTS TO RUSSIA Otago Daily Times, Issue 26634, 3 December 1947, Page 5
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