y 
Nn 
o 
in Siberia and the Ural region—is sent abroad. Thus, according to 
a recent statement of the State Bank, net gold exports to England 
during the period 1924-28 amounted to 100,000,000 rubles. Con- 
siderable amounts of gold appear to have been shipped also to Ger- 
many. The Russian gold shipment of over $5,000,000 received in 
the United States in February, 1928, proceeded from Germany and 
was returned, in April, to the same country. Accordingly the respec- 
tive amount figures in the U. S. trade returns as a gold import from 
and export to Germany. 
Below are shown tables giving the figures of the total trade 
of the Soviet Union and of the trade between the Soviet Union and 
the United States since 1918. 
TOTAL MERCHANDISE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF THE U.S.S.R. 
FOR THE PERIOD 1918-1927% 
/IN THOUSANDS OF RUBLES) 
Imports Exports 
Excess of Imports (—) 
“ ~~ * Exports (+) 
347,979 
5,053 
27,072 
188,130 
188,156 
61,762 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
1923 
Years end. Sept. 830: 
1923.24 
1924-25 
1925-26 
1926-27 
491 
04 
L } 
73,025 
+) 
1 207 
20,193 
81,621 
205,818 
r 
369,187 135,656 
575,25 148,243 
676,620 79,712 
Fin 770,548 57,861 
Total 3,602,741 2,773,664 — 729,077 
TRADE OF THE SOVIET UNION WITH THE UNITED STATES 
SINCE 1918* 
(IN THOUSANDS OF RUBLES) 
Calendar Years Imports from the Exports to the 
United States United States 
126,728 5,803 
797 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1522 
1923 
Years end. Sept. 30: 
1923-24 
1924.25 
1925-26 
1926-27 
976 
39,795 
38,935 
17.899 
51,195 
201,821 
122.162 
(45.651 
44,012 
173,645 
91,496 
122,444 
95,834 650,127 
Power in Figures”, Moscow. 1927. 
Total 745,961 
* From “Ten Years of Soviet