<P> In accordance with the agreements with the USSR, shipment of dismantled German industrial installations from the west began on March 31, 1946 . Under the terms of the agreement, the Soviet Union would in return ship raw materials such as food and timber to the western zones . In view of the Soviet failure to do so, the western zones halted the shipments east, ostensibly on a temporary basis, although they were never resumed . It was later shown that the main reason for halting shipments east was not the behavior of the USSR but rather the recalcitrant behavior of France . Examples of material received by the USSR were equipment from the Kugel - Fischer ballbearing plant at Schweinfurt, the Daimler - Benz underground aircraft - engine plant at Obrigheim, the Deschimag shipyards at Bremen - Weser, and the Gendorf powerplant . </P> <P> The USSR did establish COMECON as a riposte to the Marshall Plan to deliver aid for Eastern Bloc countries, but this was complicated by the Soviet efforts to manage their own recovery from the war . The members of Comecon looked to the Soviet Union for oil; in turn, they provided machinery, equipment, agricultural goods, industrial goods, and consumer goods to the Soviet Union . Economic recovery in the East was much slower than in the West, resulting in the formation of the shortage economies and a gap in wealth between East and West . Finland, which the USSR forbade to join the Marshall Plan and which was required to give large reparations to the USSR, saw its economy recover to pre-war levels in 1947 . France, which received billions of dollars through the Marshall Plan, similarly saw its average income per person return to almost pre-war level by 1949 . By mid-1948 industrial production in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia had recovered to a level somewhat above pre-war level . </P> <P> From the end of the war to the end of 1953, the US provided grants and credits amounting to $5.9 billion to Asian countries, especially China / Taiwan ($1.051 billion), India ($255 million), Indonesia ($215 million), Japan ($2.44 billion), South Korea ($894 million), Pakistan ($98 million) and the Philippines ($803 million). In addition, another $282 million went to Israel and $196 million to the rest of the Middle East . All this aid was separate from the Marshall Plan . </P> <P> Canada, like the United States, was damaged little by the war and in 1945 was one of the world's richest economies . It operated its own aid program . In 1948, the US allowed ERP aid to be used in purchasing goods from Canada . Canada made over a billion dollars in sales in the first two years of operation . </P>

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