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Excerpt from The Market for U. S. Soybeans and Soybean Meal in Eastern Europe The Eastern European countries covered herein include Bulgaria, czechoslovakia; -east Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Soybeans and soybean products are among the small number of u.s. Agricultural products that are now moving to these countries under developing dollar trade terms. This is because soybean meal has become a highly desired ingredient in the feeds used in their expanding poultry, hog, and other livestock industries. The acknowledged high quality of u.s. Soybean meal and the excellent results achieved with it point to the enlargement of the East European market simultaneously with the further development of these industries. If present trade conditions prevail, these countries could more than double their current imports of u.s. Soybeans and products in the next 5 years. Trade barriers are not a problem in this trade because the government import monopolies in East Europe are quite anxious to buy u.s. Soybean meal and soybeans. While import licenses are necessary in most of these countries, the government monopolies secure their own licenses. The necessary foreign exchange also is provided for because the imports are made in accordance with government plans. Nevertheless, availability of foreign exchange, which is limited and controlled, is often a problem, particularly this year in Czechoslovakia. To Eastern Europe's growing soybean and soybean meal market (excluding East Germany) the United States shipped the equivalent of metric tons of meal and beans, in terms of soybeans, in 1969; this was four times the average amount shipped in the 1960 - 64 period. Actual shipments were metric tons of meal and tons of beans; in terms of meal, the total was tons. During the 1960 - 64 period, an average of metric tons of meal and beans were shipped, in terms of soybeans, or tons of meal and tons of beans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.