Northern (N): Soviet Union (NS). Foreign Trade

A file of correspondence and press material concerning economic developments in the Soviet Union. The documents discuss an article in Izvestiya claiming that the American government has adopted a "discriminatory" trade policy towards the Soviet Union; and a proposal from the Soviet All-Union Chamber of Commerce for Western governments to "end anti-Soviet discrimination in trade questions". The documents also include a note on a conference held in the Soviet Union on the "current problems of contemporary capitalism"; and an interview given to Izvestiya by Ivan Arkhipov, the First Vice-Chairman of the Soviet State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations, discussing Soviet economic and technical aid to foreign countries. Other documents cover developments in Soviet foreign trade during 1961, with a steep rise in Soviet trade with Cuba matched by an even steeper decline in Soviet trade with China; and the British belief that Soviet trade with East Germany is "strikingly unbalanced".