Soviet Dumping

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unheard-of scale. The official journal states that decrees
have been issued setting apart a large number of factories
and works to produce export goods and it explains :
“ By setting apart manufacturing undertakings for the
production of export goods only, we are able to concentrate
our export production in the largest factories and works
which are located in the neighbourhood of ports, and which
are provided with a sufficiency of raw materials. These
undertakings have been granted special privileges in connection
 with finance, and have been supplied with the
highest qualified technicians and workers, as well as with
the best kind of equipment.”
Among the undertakings thus set apart are textile mills,
rubber factories, match factories, foodstuffs factories,
china and glass-ware factories, clothing factories, knitted
wear factories, leather and footwear factories, and electric
bulb factories. At the same time other decrees provide for
the setting apart of sections in the remaining factories,
which include machine and tool works, cast-iron works and
other factories producing a variety of metal manufactures.
The cotton mills produced in 1928-9 about 2,800,000,000
metres of finished goods and the plans provide for doubling
this output by the end of 1932. The woollen mills showed an
output of 114,994,000 metres of finished goods in 1928-9
and this is to be more than doubled by 1932. The linen
mills with an output of 179,000,000 square metres of finished
goods are to treble their output. The FiveYears’ Plan provides
1,480 million roubles in subsidies for the textile industry.
The rubber industry, with its present output valued at
about 200 million roubles at pre-war prices, is to quadruple
its output and correspondingly increase its dumping. Rubber
 footwear and rubber tyres are the two principal articles
dumped by Soviet Russia.
The match industry is being specially favoured by the
Moscow Government in view of its enormous possibilities
for dumping and propaganda. The output by the beginning
of 1930 has been doubled in comparison with 1913. Millions
 have already been spent on this industry and the plans
show that the Government is heavily subsidising exports
to compete against ‘‘ international capitalists.” The export