Union Foreign Trade Association
A Union Foreign Trade Association was a business enterprise in the USSR for conducting commercial transactions with foreign countries.
Problem situation
In the USSR, the implementation of the Soviet foreign trade monopoly initially suffered from bureaucratic sluggishness. Therefore, on February 6, 1930, an attempt was made by the People's Commissariat for Foreign and Domestic Trade to reorganize Soviet foreign trade: The export-import joint-stock companies that had been active up to that point were soon followed by thirty Union foreign trade associations, some through conversion ( Russian: Vsesojuznye vnešnetorgovye ob'edinenija), who were allowed to independently conduct foreign trade transactions within the USSR from 1931 and outside the USSR from July 27, 1935. So there was a special foreign trade carrier for each product group.
organization
In 1970 there were about 40 Union Foreign Trade Associations, most of which were under the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade. The "State Committee for Economic Relations with Foreign Countries" at the Council of Ministers of the USSR, on the other hand, included foreign trade associations that delivered complete plants abroad. There was also a cooperative foreign trade association at Zentrosojus . The higher-level organizations approved the statutes of the foreign trade associations and made them work abroad with the rights of a legal person. The associations limited themselves to their specialty and received a monopoly on it from the state. The power of attorney was held by a chairman and his deputy.
literature
- Kaspar-Dietrich Freymuth: The historical development of the organizational forms of Soviet foreign trade (1917–1961) , reports of the Eastern Europe Institute at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin 1963
- John Quigley: The Soviet Foreign Trade Monopoly. Institutions and Laws , Ohio State University Press, Columbus 1974
- VS Pozdniakov: Foreign Trade Association , in: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (A. M. Prokhorov (ed.): Bol`shaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia , Moscow 1970, English), Volume 5, Macmillan and Collier Macmillan Publishers, New York / London 1974, p. 145 . [1]