The Computerized System for Optimal Foreign Trade Planning: Objectives,Tasks, and Structure

Improving the effectiveness of social production and securing high rates of economic growth and rises in the standard of living of workers are today connected with the extensive utilization of external economic relations. The Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Twenty-Fourth Congress states:

One of the major resources to be drawn on in improving the economic effectiveness of the economy is further elaboration and perfection of external economic relations. Political factors, having to do with strengthening socialist fraternity and fortifying the economic basis of peaceful coexistence, and economic factors, stemming from our economic needs, both make it important that we expand the production of goods for export in all branches of industry. This will also help to increase the import of needed goods. There can be no doubt that the expansion of international exchange will have a favorable effect on improving the performance of our industry as a whole. Of course, certain specific measures must be taken to improve the control of all external economic activity if we are to increase the role of economic and scientific-technological relations with other countries in our economic progress.