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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Automotive Equipment ....c..iniee
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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