By August 10, the countries worked out the last minor technical details, but the Soviets delayed signing the economic agreement for almost ten days until they were sure that they had also reached a political agreement.
Nemci so nemudoma sprejeli nova zahtevka, dva dni kasneje je nemški zunanji minister Ribbentrop zarisal načrt, kjer bi se državi strinjali o nevmešavanju v zadeve druge in bi se odrekli ukrepom usmerjenim proti vitalnim interesom druge ter da ni sporne zadeve med Baltikom in Črnim morjem, ki je ne bi mogli rešiti med seboj.