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Kōrero: International economic relations

Soviet Union meat buying, 1974

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Soviet Union meat buying, 1974

The Soviet Union (including Russia) became an important purchaser of New Zealand primary produce in the 1970s and 1980s. F. Shpota, trade counsellor at the Soviet embassy in Wellington, signs an agreement to purchase 36,000 tonnes of New Zealand meat for $17 million.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1974/3962/33

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm McKinnon, International economic relations – Socialist bloc, the Middle East and New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24826/soviet-union-meat-buying-1974 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2010.