Soviet Dumping 15
An official announcement issued by the Supreme Economic
 Soviet states:

“ The Soviet Union is building hundreds of new factories
and electric stations; the productivity of labour is being
increased by introducing mechanical equipment and new
industries, hitherto unknown to Russia. For instance, many
branches of the chemical, machine-building, electrical, and
automobile industries are being established.”

For this purpose special measures have been adopted and
have been put into action all over the country. These
measures provide for the financing, equipment and running
of hundreds of ‘industrial units,” working solely and
entirely for export. Markets have been carefully studied,
qualified economists and ‘‘ merchandisers” are being
trained, and an attack on the world’s markets is being
prepared.
On the authority of the Supreme Economic Soviet at
Moscow, it is stated that a decree ordering the reorganisation
 and improvement of the exporting apparatus has been
issued to the departments concerned both at home and
abroad, and that the strictest control is exercised in order
to ensure the realisation of all export plans. Instructions
have also been issued ordering drastic cuts in the exportation
 of raw and semi-raw materials and their replacement
by manufactured or finished products.

Chemicals
Much attention is being paid to a series of commodities
termed “ Chemicals.” The dumping of these goods is under
the control of a group of trusted officials, who manage the
department known as Khimexpori. The exports of principal
chemicals, which in 1924-8 amounted to 20,000 tons, was
increased in the following year to 35,000 tons, whilst the
estimates for the current year show a further increase of
nearly 10,000 tons. In addition to about twenty items of
heavy chemicals already exported, ever-increasing quantities
 of the products of the Chemico-Pharmaceutical industry
 are rapidly being added to the dumped total.
The industry is controlled by a special department