Winnowing from the immense mass of untrustworthy "official" Soviet statistics, checking wherever possible from extra-Soviet sources, the Foreign Policy Association of Manhattan published last week an interesting if necessarily inconclusive report: The Soviet Economic System, in Operation.
Points keynoted:
Soviet-U. S. Trade. According to U. S. Department of Commerce statistics, trade between the U. S. and Soviet Russia in Europe was distributed as follows during the past two years:
1924 1925
U. S. exports* to Russia $41,314,335 $68,195,696
U. S. imports†from Russia 8,144,373 12,787,731
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