TRADE: Those Soviet Buyers

In U.S.-Soviet trade, grain deals get all the attention, and are provoking a red-hot debate about the wisdom of allowing the U.S.S.R. untrammeled access to American food supplies (see THE NATION). But almost unnoticed amid the hullabaloo, another type of American-Soviet commerce has been expanding far more smoothly and consistently. In an effort to modernize and expand their inefficient economy, the Soviets are turning to the U.S. for machines and technology. As a result, American sales of nonagricultural goods to the Soviet Union are likely to top $550 million this year, v. $309 million in 1974 and only $131...

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