The Foreign Trade Regime in the Comecon Countries Today

Abstract

Recently, in three important aspects, foreign trade techniques in socialist Europe were changed significantly.Economic expansion, the growing sophistication of national economies in the entire area and the need for closer cooperation, both among the members of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (hereinafter Comecon) and with the free economy countries, have rendered the system of artificial separation of import and export activities from the production of goods obsolete.Accordingly, foreign trade has been made largely the responsibility of the producers again in an effort to involve them directly in more efficient competition for foreign consumers.'Second, in the effort to promote growing effidency within the Eastern Bloc, the General Conditions of Delivery of 19582 and the international code of sales and deliveriess were