NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF APPENDICES TO (ORE 58-48)

Created: 11/1/1948

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to Recipients (if Appendices to,

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Western Europe {not including the United Kingdom)he satellite countries In Eastern Europe axe now producing crude steel at an annual rate ot aboutillion metric tons, of which overillion tons is being produced in Western Europe (inclining westernhe combined rate of outout of these areas amounts toillion tons less than (lie peak wartime output of the -European Axis, and should be sufficient toar effort neariy comparable to that of thcorld War II.

Altogether, the area assumed to be under Soviet control nowroducing crude steel al an artnual rate of2 Bullion metric tons, otillion tons more than the peat;supply of the Axis powers and (he USSR combined This steel capacity would, in itself, be sufficient toar effortgreater than the Worldffort of Germany and the USSR combined.

ESTIMATEOr OUTPUT OF CRUDE STEEL IN THE USSR. EUROPEAN ORBIT. AND WESTERN EUROPE (In millions of metric tons)

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