SOVIET TRADING ORGANIZATIONS 
IN THE UNITED STATES 
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The four outstanding organizations doing the bulk of business 
between the Soviet Union and the United States are the Amtorg 
Trading Corporation, 165 Broadway, representing the principal 
trading and industrial organizations of the Soviet Union; the All- 
Russian Textile Syndicate, Inc., 120 Broadway, which purchases 
cotton for shipment to the Soviet Union; ‘Centrosoyus, Inc. 17 
Battery Place, and Selskosojus, Inc., go West Street, representing 
the consumers’ and agricultural producers’ cooperatives of the Soviet 
Union respectively. All of these addresses are in New York City. 
The total amount of orders placed in the United States by the 
above named trading organizations during the past five years is 
$315,000,000. ‘Apart from this, shipments of machinery to the 
U. S. S. R. have been made by several other American firms under 
concession. Manganese ore and furs, not included in the above 
figures, to the value of over $30,000,000 were imported into this 
country during the period. Soviet-American business since the 
commencement of regular trade relations between the United States 
and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as reckoned in terms of 
purchases and sales in the United States, amounted to about 
$400,000.000. 
More than half of this trade consisted of purchases of cotton 
by the All-Russian Textile Syndicate. 
ORDERS PLACED IN THE UNITED STATES FOR SHIPMENT TO 
THE SOVIET UNION 
In 1925-26, 1926-27 and First Half of 1927-28 
COMMODITY GROUP 
—_—- —1925-1926—— — 
Oct. 1, 1925—Sept. 30, 1926 
Other 
Amiorg Organizations 
32,018,375 67 §32,496,930.01 
335,121.24 287,853.26 
2,918,962.33 1,166,779.88 
268,100.88 23,210,08 
5,951,748.16 1,165,304.82 
664,870.27 896,041.22 
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Semi-Manufactured Goods ....cccocssenns 
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Agricultural Mach’y, Live Stock, Ete. 
Consumers’ Good... civcceirrieissrcesonranesssaan 
Total 
$34,516,305.68 
622,974.50 
4,086,742.21 
291,310.96 
8,117,052.98 
1,060,977.49 
B48 693,207.82 
5183,157,178.56 
$35,636,119.27 
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