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The Afghan Minister of Trade (right) calling
on his Indian counterpart on a recent visit to
New Delhi
Kabul during the year 1337 and
exchanged views with organisations
concerned on the strengthening and
further development of trade relations
between Japan and Afghanistan.
(xi) As trade between Afghanistan and
India did not flow in accordance with
expectation—and indeed there were cer-
tain difficulties in its way—the Ministry of
Trade, through the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, contacted the Indian Government
with regard to the renewal of trade
agreements between the two countries. As
a result a delegation left for India in July
to discuss possibilities of removing the
difficulties present and signed a new
agreement.
(xii) Upon the proposal from the Polish
Embassy in Kabul for the renewal of the
existing Agreement and Protocol for the
Exchange of Goods and Prices for 1959
and 1960, the Ministry has agreed to
receive a Polish delegation in Kabul and
it is expected that when a new agreement
has been reached a protocol between the
two governments will be signed in War-
saw.
(xiii) The protocol for the Exchange of
Goods and Prices for 1959-60 will shortly
be signed between Afghanistan and
Czechoslovakia in Prague.
B. Foreign Investment.
During the year four requests were
received for investment in Afghanistan :
(i) A request for the establishment of
a casings industry by a Japanese merchant
with a capital of one million Afghanis.
(ii) A request for the establishment of
an organisation which would furnish
machinery for sorting fruits. The proposer
is a German subject and the proposed
capital is 7,500 dollars.
(iii) A request for the establishment of
an electrical workshop by the Siemens
Company with a capital of 100,000 D.M.
(iv) A proposal by the Franklin
Development Institution of New York for
participating in the Ministry of Education
Press with a capital of 300,000 dollars.
These proposals are receiving attention
at the Ministry of Trade.
C. Transit and Transport Difficulties.
As Afghanistan is a land-locked
country, the consequent effect on the
country's economic development has not
been very favourable. The Ministry of
Trade, with a view to preparing transit
and transport routes for the flow of goods
to and from Afghanistan, has contacted
the governments of Pakistan and the
U.S.S.R. with regard to the signing of
transit treaties with the said governments.
As a result some facilities have been
introduced in this respect. During last
year a Pakistani delegation, headed by
the Pakistani Minister of Finance, arrived
in Kabul and held talks on transit prob-
lems. An agreement was signed after
these talks. This delegation was followed
by another Pakistani delegation under the
Minister of Trade which sought ways of
implementing the aforementioned agree-
ment. A further delegation, this time
from Afghanistan, left for Pakistan to
discuss the difficulties created in imple-
menting the transit agreement between
Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The Afghan-Soviet Transit Agreement
of 1954 was extended when a delegation
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