MibyrigLOHN WEIR
he Staff Correspondent

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SOVIET TRADE:
threat or promise
for Canada?

fit in trade with the socialist
countries: the deals being made
in Moscow prove this. But there
is more to it than that.

One-third of the world today
is composed of socialist coun-
tries with rapidly expanding
economies, which means also
expanding opportunities for
trade, but on a different basis
than in previous times. This sec-
tor of the world cannot be dic-
tated to.

Willing as they are to trade,
the socialist countries won't
buy goods they don’t need;
they won't pay exorbitant
monopoly prices for what they
buy, and they will develop com-
mercial relations only on a mu-
tual profitable basis, which also
means they will buy where they
can sell.

The countries just emerging
from colonial and dependent
status also offer a growing
market — but also on new
terms. They will no longer con-
sent to supply cheap foodstuffs
and raw materials to the
“metropolis” and pay high
prices for manufactured goods.
They are out to industrialize
and modernize their countries.

The publicly-owned sector of
the economy is becoming ever
more dominant in most of these
countries, and some: have al-
ready taken the road to social-
ism. With such powerful highly-
developed countries as_ the
USSR at their side, they no
longer are compelled to do what
Washington or London _ tells
them. They made this abundant-
ly clear at the United Nations
conference on trade in Geneva
last June.

The socialist and newly
emerging countries are the bulk
of the world’s population. They
are rapidly developing. Growing

MOSCOW

economies and higher living
standards offer the greatest op-
portunities for trade.

In the past decade, for ex-
ample, the national income of
the USSR increased 2.3 times,
and in the same period (1953-
63) the real income of the
people rose by 61 percent. High-
er wages for a quarter of the
working population and pen-
sions for farmers in 1964 will
up this percentage considerably.
This means the 225 million So-
viet people are buying that
much more — and part of these
purchases is in imported goods.

In 1963 the volume of Soviet
trade amounted to 12,900 mil-
lion roubles (16 billion U.S.
dollars), which is 12 times what
it was in 1938. And it will keep
mounting.

New pattern

If Lord Thomson had studied
Soviet exports to the devel-
oping countries he would have
noticed that what predomi-
nates is not manufactured
goods (which is the pattern
where developed capitalist coun-
tries trade with less developed
lands), nor armaments (which
is one of the special feature of
U.S. “aid” to those countries),
but machines, including whole
factories and power stations.

Yes, and the USSR trains en-
gineers from those countries to
get industrialized and produce
their own manufactured goods.

The new pattern of world
trade coming into being is the
international exchange of goods
between equals, not economic
domination of one country by
another.

The USSR is doing business
with nearly 100 countries, in-

Advances in Soviet science offer a brand new sales product:
medical and industrial patents.

cluding the capitalist ones. And
they are buying and selling a
large variety of commodities.
My press clippings of the last
couple of weeks show the fol-
lowing deals with non-socialist
countries:

The Soviet Union has bought
hundreds of millions of roubles
worth of chemical equipment
from Britain, Italy, West Ger-
many and France.

Its import of coffee is up 350
percent in seven years, natural
rubber—150 percent.

Denmark and Sweden are
building ships for the USSR.

The Soviet Union bought a
urea plant complete from‘ the
Japanese Toya Engineering Co.
for $9,000,000.

British Courtaulds Ltd. sold
15. million roubles worth of
rayon yarn. Joy Co. of Pitts-
burgh sold 90 cutterloaders and
other equipment. India delivered
188,700 pairs of shoes (on top
of double that amount bought
earlier). And so on.

Among items the USSR has
sold or is selling abroad are
road building and farm machin-
ery to Pakistan for $11,000,000,
isotopes to Siemens in West
Germany, cinerama equipment to
Japan (the Karakuen Co. claims
the Soviet article is superior to
the American), watches, cam-
eras, tinned fish. and vodka to
Britain, metal-working lathes to
the U.S., passenger cars and
trucks to Iceland, Finland, Aus-

Western businessmen are finding they can make profitable trade deals in Moscow.

tria, Indonesia, Ghana (and
“Volga” limousines to Britain),
tractors to 51 different coun-
tries, hydrofoil ships to Italy,
France and other countries, etc.

While the USSR is still be-
hind the U.S.—and Canada—in
many lines, in others it is al-
ready ahead and the American
businessmen are not averse to
buying up Soviet patents for oil
drilling and other machinery.
At a recent press conference
Soviet vice-premier I. Novikov
told, among other things, of ad-
vances in automation where
only one person will now be
required to erect a five-storey
apartment building.

British representatives spent
two months in the USSR to buy
a new Soviet invention, an arti-
ficial limb that obeys the “com-
mands of the brain” if attached
even to a little stub of the ori-
ginal arm. And these are just
some of the new inventions.

Desire needed

U.S. industrialist Edward
Lamb, who recently visited the
Soviet Union, urged American
businessmen to engage in mu-
tually advantageous trade with
the USSR “before it is too late.”
The warning applies doubly to
Canada.

It is. not true that Canada
can’t sell anything to the Soviet
Union but wheat, and buy noth-
ing at all from her. What is
wanted is the desire and ‘a
business-like study of commo-
dities that can be bought and
sold.

In the final account what is
wanted is concern for Canada’s
interests. First of all, East-West
trade promotes peace, and peace
is our Interest No. 1. Secondly,
trade with the socialist coun-
triés promotes Canada’s inde-
pendence, correcting the present
overwhelming reliance on the
U.S., which hampers the devel-
opment of Canadian economy
(under somewhat similar cir-
cumstances, the government of
Tunisia, for example, has decid-
ed to switch orders away from
France).

Finally, it means turning to-
wards that part of the world
that is growing and which offers
the best prospects for Canada’s
trade in the future.

Trade with the USSR is not
a threat—except to those who

want to turn the clock of his-
tory backward! It is a promise

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