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...SUPPLEMENTAL STOCKPILE. Launched by Congress in 1954, this houses imported materials that the U.S. gets by swapping off its farm surpluses. Value (together with a separate Commodity Credit Corporation pile of materials acquired by barter): $1 billion...
...balance of payments. One-third of all U.S. trade is with Western Europe, and the six-nation Common Market's policy of holding high tariff walls against outside nations while lowering the barriers among themselves is sure to cut heavily into the U.S. trade surplus. In order to barter for the lowering of those walls-and to increase U.S. trade with other nations-Kennedy wants to give foreign imports a better break...
...stuck-up, Nehru too preachy. But he likes Toure as "a natural man" (and a Moslem who calls himself Ahmad when in Cairo), and last week Toure came away from Cairo with a $16.8 million loan, repayable in seven years at 2½% interest, plus a $5,600,000 barter trade agreement...
...credits to permit the Mali government to buy 300 trucks, and the U.S. anted up $2,500,000, mostly in cement and gasoline. Entering enthusiastically into the competition, the Common Market nations jointly granted $2,700,000 for irrigation and medical supplies, and Red China signed a barter deal: Chinese machinery and building supplies for Mali's agricultural products and handicrafts...
...imports) in 1959 simply by knocking 22% off the price that Western suppliers were charging. In Brazil, there was hardly a discount at all in Russia's big contract last year; there the attraction was that Soyuzneftexport accepted Brazilian coffee and cocoa beans in a straight barter deal, whereas the "majors" demanded hard currencies...