The foreign trade of the USSR was a government monopoly and was conducted by the Ministry of Foreign Trade. This ministry maintained control over the planning and operation of foreign trade through main administrations for imports and exports and for certain large geographical areas, as well as through foreign-trade corporations holding monopolies for specific commodities or services.[1]
Postwar industrialization and an expansion of foreign trade resulted in the proliferation of all-union foreign trade organizations (FTOs), the new name for foreign trade corporations and also known as foreign trade association.[2]
In 1946 the People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade was reorganized into the Ministry of Foreign Trade. The Ministry of Foreign Trade, through its FTOs, retained the exclusive right to negotiate and sign contracts with foreigners and to draft foreign trade plans.[2]
The Ministry of Foreign Trade was merged with the Ministry of Internal Trade on 15 March 1953 and was restored to separate status six months later, on 15 September.[1]
The State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations (Russian: Gosudarstvennyi komitet po vneshnim ekonomicheskim sviaziam — GKES), created in 1955, managed all foreign aid programs and the export of complete factories through the FTOs subordinate to it. Certain ministries, however, had the right to deal directly with foreign partners through their own FTOs.[2]
On January 17, 1988, Izvestia reported the abolition of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and GKES. These two organizations were merged into the newly created Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, which had responsibility for administering foreign trade policy and foreign aid agreements. Other legislation provided for the establishment of joint enterprises. The government retained its monopoly on foreign trade through a streamlined version of the Soviet foreign trade bureaucracy as it existed before the January 17 decree.[2]
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ministry, foreign, trade, soviet, union, ministry, foreign, trade, russian, Министерство, внешней, торговли, СССР, minvneshtorg, government, ministry, soviet, union, foreign, trade, ussr, government, monopoly, conducted, ministry, foreign, trade, this, ministr. The Ministry of Foreign Trade Russian Ministerstvo vneshnej torgovli SSSR Minvneshtorg was a government ministry in the Soviet Union The foreign trade of the USSR was a government monopoly and was conducted by the Ministry of Foreign Trade This ministry maintained control over the planning and operation of foreign trade through main administrations for imports and exports and for certain large geographical areas as well as through foreign trade corporations holding monopolies for specific commodities or services 1 Postwar industrialization and an expansion of foreign trade resulted in the proliferation of all union foreign trade organizations FTOs the new name for foreign trade corporations and also known as foreign trade association 2 Contents 1 History 2 List of ministers 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksHistory editIn 1946 the People s Commissariat of Foreign Trade was reorganized into the Ministry of Foreign Trade The Ministry of Foreign Trade through its FTOs retained the exclusive right to negotiate and sign contracts with foreigners and to draft foreign trade plans 2 The Ministry of Foreign Trade was merged with the Ministry of Internal Trade on 15 March 1953 and was restored to separate status six months later on 15 September 1 The State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations Russian Gosudarstvennyi komitet po vneshnim ekonomicheskim sviaziam GKES created in 1955 managed all foreign aid programs and the export of complete factories through the FTOs subordinate to it Certain ministries however had the right to deal directly with foreign partners through their own FTOs 2 On January 17 1988 Izvestia reported the abolition of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and GKES These two organizations were merged into the newly created Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations which had responsibility for administering foreign trade policy and foreign aid agreements Other legislation provided for the establishment of joint enterprises The government retained its monopoly on foreign trade through a streamlined version of the Soviet foreign trade bureaucracy as it existed before the January 17 decree 2 List of ministers editSource 3 4 Leonid Krasin 6 7 1923 18 11 1925 Aleksandr Cyurupa 18 11 1925 6 1 1926 Lev Kamenev 8 1 1926 14 8 1926 Anastas Mikoyan 15 8 1926 22 10 1930 Arkadi Rozenholz 5 11 1930 14 6 1937 Evgeni Chivyalev 19 1 1938 30 11 1938 Anastas Mikoyan 30 11 1938 4 3 1949 Mikhail Menshikov 4 3 1949 10 11 1951 Pavel Kumykin 10 11 1951 Ivan Kabanov 15 9 1953 26 8 1958 Nikolai Patolichev 26 8 1958 19 10 1985 Boris Aristov 19 10 1985 16 1 1988 Konstantin Katushev 16 1 1988 28 8 1991 Valeri Mangazeyev 28 8 1991 26 12 1991 See also editForeign trade of the Soviet UnionReferences edit a b Organization Of The Ministry of Foreign Trade USSR PDF CIA Archived from the original PDF on January 18 2017 Retrieved 18 November 2017 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain a b c d Zickel Raymond E 1991 Soviet Union a country study research completed May 1989 2 ed 1 print ed Washington DC US Gov Print Off pp 593 594 ISBN 0844407275 Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917 1964 Archived from the original on 28 November 2017 Retrieved 28 November 2017 Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1964 1991 Archived from the original on 28 November 2017 Retrieved 28 November 2017 External links edit nbsp Works related to Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of 24 08 1953 on the formation of the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR at Wikisource nbsp This Soviet Union related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ministry of Foreign Trade Soviet Union amp oldid 1142069989, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
