International Trade and the Transfer of Production Factors within the EEC and CMEA Countries

The main purpose of the article is an attempt at evaluating comparatively the changes and tendencies in commercial, financial and technological (relations occuring within the EEC and the CMEA in the '70 ad the early '80. The analysis includes the changes in the size and structure of trade resulting — among others — from the processes of specialization occuring within both groups. The research includes also the forms and size of capital and technology flow within the EEC and CMEA and the factors determining the said flow. The conclusions point out to a relatively higher — in comparison with the CMEA — capability of the economies of the EEC countries to adapt to the main tendencies of changes occuring in the structure of demand on world market.Digitalizacja i deponowanie archiwalnych zeszytów RPEiS sfinansowane przez MNiSW w ramach realizacji umowy nr 541/P-DUN/201