“ The Economic Agreement
The first pact was an economic trade agreement, which Ribbentrop and Molotov signed on August 19, 1939.
The agreement, which proved instrumental in helping Germany bypass the British blockade during the early years of World War II, committed the Soviet Union to provide food products and raw materials to Germany in exchange for products such as German machinery for the Soviet Union.”
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German–Soviet Commercial Agreement (1940)
On 11 February 1940, Germany and the Soviet Union entered into an intricate trade pact in which the Soviet Union would send Germany 650 million Reichsmarks in raw materials in exchange for 650 million Reichsmark in machinery, manufactured goods and technology.[5]: 103–105 [17] The trade pact helped Germany to surmount the British blockade.[2]: 668–669 “