[In millions of U. S. dollars] --------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------- | | | | Month | Total | European | U.S.S.R. | China |Soviet bloc| Satellites| | --------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------- 1952: | | | | January | 107.8 | 58.7 | 39.1 | 10.0 February | 121.4 | 51.3 | 48.9 | 21.2 March | 129.2 | 67.8 | 53.4 | 8.0 April | 114.8 | 53.1 | 40.7 | 21.0 May | 139.4 | 52.4 | 52.5 | 34.5 June | 109.4 | 56.1 | 30.7 | 22.6 July | 118.0 | 53.5 | 39.2 | 25.3 August | 125.4 | 53.2 | 39.3 | 32.9 September | 89.5 | 45.6 | 23.9 | 20.0 October | 104.6 | 50.4 | 34.6 | 19.6 November | 120.4 | 55.7 | 40.1 | 24.6 December | 139.3 | 72.5 | 38.0 | 28.8 1953: | | | | January | 119.3 | 54.9 | 25.9 | 38.5 February | 97.1 | 48.6 | 23.5 | 25.0 March | 123.9 | 61.2 | 33.3 | 29.4 April | 110.9 | 53.2 | 26.8 | 30.9 May | 88.4 | 43.4 | 25.8 | 19.2 June | 100.9 | 51.9 | 27.2 | 21.8 July | 104.4 | 55.2 | 30.7 | 18.5 August | 113.2 | 56.1 | 37.8 | 19.3 September | 90.3 | 47.7 | 30.0 | 12.6 October | 118.4 | 50.7 | 46.8 | 20.9 November | 140.3 | 67.0 | 50.6 | 22.5 December | 144.4 | 68.7 | 53.2 | 22.2 --------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------- NOTE.--Monthly data are preliminary and unrevised. Therefore, they will not add exactly to annual world totals. China data refer, wherever possible, to Mainland (Communist) China, including Manchuria and Inner Mongolia. Source: Official trade statistics of the free world, compiled by U. S. Department of Commerce. TABLE 5.--_Free world imports from the Soviet bloc, monthly, 1952 and 1953_