ABSTRACT
In the general five-year plan of foreign trade the export plan is of primary importance, inasmuch as it is exports that supply the resources needed to meet the country’s requirements of imported goods. The distribution of the basic elements in the Soviet export trade will thus differ essentially from that of pre-war exports, just as the entire economic structure of the Soviet Union will differ radically from that of the old Russian Empire. In order to assure a regular and steady development of the export trade and to provide the necessary technical equipment for export marketing, large amounts of capital will be invested in the construction of elevators, warehouses, plants for the primary treatment of agricultural products, refrigerators, sorting plants, etc. The problem of meeting the import requirements of the country has been one of the most important economic problems faced by the Soviet Union in the last few years.
