Chinese, Soviets Sign Border Trade Pacts
China and the Soviet Union have signed contracts to increase cross-border trade between the western Chinese region of Xinjiang and the Soviet Union by 75% in the first half of this year, the New China News Agency said Friday.
Border trade in that region, reopened last year after being suspended for decades, was worth $11.2 million in 1986, the agency said. Xinjiang exports clothes and crockery to the Soviet Union and imports steel, chemicals and refrigerators, it added.
Total Sino-Soviet trade amounted to $1.7 billion in the first nine months of 1986, with a surplus of $13 million in Moscow’s favor, Chinese government figures show.
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