East-West Trade Trends / Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 (the Battle Act); Fourth Report to Congress, Second Half of 1953 - United States. Foreign Operations Administration

Note.—So far as possible, data refer to Mainland Communist China, including Manchuria and Inner Mongolia.
Source: Official trade statistics of free world countries, compiled by U. S. Department of commerce.

Table 8.—United States trade with the Soviet-bloc countries, 1937, 1948, 1952, and 1953

[In thousands of dollars]

Country	Exports, including reexports				General imports
Country	[1]1937	1948	1952	1953	1937	1948	1952	1953
Total Soviet bloc	143,892	396,641	1,097	1,776	206,506	233,482	67,311	45,597
Bloc in Europe	94,189	123,241	1,097	1,776	102,884	113,138	39,586	36,325
Albania	147	344	1	2	137	----	52	65
Bulgaria	490	2,086	24	5	1,862	831	275	358
Czechoslovakia	13,233	21,563	75	40	37,183	22,125	1,477	2,262
East Germany	n.s.s.	n.s.s.	622	1,079	n.s.s.	n.s.s.	7,118	6,465
Estonia	1,244	7	------	------	937	([X])	------	------
Hungary	693	8,029	69	2	5,512	1,613	2,913	1,717
Latvia	1,744	1	------	------	767	6	------	------
Lithuania	511	115	------	------	1,172	10	1	------
Poland and Danzig	26,297	55,675	286	622	19,568	1,249	10,247	14,295
Rumania	6,938	7,542	------	7	4,978	480	683	372
U.S.S.R.	42,892	27,879	20	19	30,768	86,825	16,818	10,791
bloc in asia
China (including Manchuria)	} 49,703	273,400	------	------	103,622	120,343{	[2]24,605	[3]614
Outer Mongolia [4]	} 49,703	273,400	------	------	103,622	120,343{	3,120	8,658
North Korea	n. s. s.	n. s. s.	------	------	n. s. s.	n. s. s.	------	------

[1] Data represent direct shipments only, which in prewar years greatly understated the trade with central European countries; for a total of direct and indirect imports of United States merchandise see foreign country statistics.
[2] Consisted chiefly of strategic materials specifically licensed for import.
[3] Consisted chiefly of strategic materials specifically licensed for import in 1952 but not actually imported until 1953, and Chinese material located in free countries before 1950 and purchased in those countries by Americans.
[4] United States does not consider Outer Mongolia as a part of Communist China; traditionally for statistical purposes Outer Mongolia has been included with China; separate figures for this area have been compiled by Census only since January 1953. The 1952 breakdown is estimated.