Comparative Analysis of Textile and Clothing Industries and Foreign Trade in Textile-Clothing Products of Poland, GDR, Czechoslovakia and Hungary

This work constitutes an initial part of reaearches aimed at determination of possibilities in field of consolidation of co-operation between Poland, Czechoslovakia, the GDR and Hungary encompassing production of textile and clothing articles and trade in them. The main objective of this part of researches is to determine the present state in textile-clothing industries of the countries under survey and of foreign trade in products turned out by these industries on the basis of available information, comparative analysis. There were analyzed such problems as: - productive factors remaining at disposal of analyzed industries in four countries including especially fixed assets, raw material and labour resources, - production in industries under survey - its dynamics, role of improved labour productivity and increased employment in production growth, volume and structure of production, size of production in more important products, - effectiveness ratios in analyzed industries (productivity of fixed assets, ratios between productivity and capital intensity, assessment of the synthetic coefficient of effectiveness , - foreign trade - volume of import of textile raw materiale to the four countries, place held by Poland, Czechoslovakia, the GDR and Hungry in the world export and import of textile and clothing products, commodity and geographical structure of trade, level and dynamics of trade, mutual turnover, trade restrictions. Tables and comparative data presented in the work contain huge statistical material illustrating conclusions contained in its final part