Abstract

This is the first of a projected six or seven volumes of source materials on East-West and intersocialist trade. The contents of the first volume provide a basis for a preliminary judgment of the nature and quality of the collection, while the included list of headings for all the volumes gives a preview of the scope of the work. Vol. r opens with a small amount of foreign trade data, and then goes on to cover the topics of organization of economic and of equality and discrimination in those regulations. Topics to be included in future volumes include the foreign trade system, foreign trade contracts, industrial cooperation, intellectual property, financial relations, transport and dispute settlement. A brief foreword by the editor outlines the principles used in selection and editing. The basic subject is international economic relations of socialist countries (Albania, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Mongolia, North Korea, North Vietnam, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia). Considerations of utility and limitations of space and cost have led to the exclusion of a number of types of material. Areas not covered include legislation of nonsocialist countries dealing with East-West trade; domestic law of socialist countries only indirectly connected with trade (e.g. general rules of copyright law); historical materials not reflecting the current legal situation; materials of a clearly non-legal nature. Primary sources such as laws and treaties have been preferred to secondary sources such as speeches and articles, though a number of the latter have been included where the primary sources were inadequate. An effort has been made to include mainly materials relatively inaccessible in law libraries; material included in other readily available sources will be the subject of references in the bibliography to be published in the final volume. A

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