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The past four years have witnessed a marked increase in the economic activity between East and West. The volume of foreign trade rose strongly; but as Eastern exports showed only slight increases while their imports from the West went up by leaps and bounds, the deficits of the Comecon countries became ever greater — an imbalance which has given rise to a number of problems.
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Predescu, A. New developments in east-west economic relations. Intereconomics 10, 249–252 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929276
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929276