V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on The Import Plan [2]

1) The C.P.C. does not endorse the plan of imports
submitted to it, as this plan is exaggerated at least fivefold. [1]
2) The C.P.C. directs the Council of Labour and Defence
immediately to set up a General Planning Commission with the participation
of experts and charge it (or its subcommission) with cutting down this plan
and revising it with an eye to the practical use to which the purchases can
be put under our present economic conditions. Final approval of the plan by
the C.L.D.

3) Pending revision of this plan the People’s Commissariat
for Foreign Trade must restrict itself to one-fifth of this plan on each of
the 71 main orders; to one-tenth in the case of the military department;
with the indispensable condition that priority be given to the requirements
of the fuel extracting and metallurgical industries. Exceptions with the
permission of the C.L.D.