On Certain Trends in Growth of Trade in Consumer Goods Among the CMEA Countries

The authors analyze trade in consumer goods among the CMEA countries, and especially trade exchange among the European socialist countries-members of this grouping, including the Soviet Union. The analysis is quite comprehensive. The authors claim that the present scheme of international specialization consists in importing modern machines and equipment by the European CMEA countries from highly-developed capitalist countries in exchange for export of a substantial part of consumer goods manufactured to a big extent, from deficit raw materials supplied by the Soviet Union. In this situation, the authors propose that this mechanism should be changed and mutual trade exchange in these products between the Soviet Union and its socialist partners should be intensified