书目名称 | Soviet Foreign Trade | 副标题 | The Decision Process | 编辑 | H. Stephen Gardner | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The enigma of Soviet society is nowhere more strikingly manifested than in its economic relations with the outside world. Western business people, even those with representative offices in Moscow, often describe their negotiations with the Soviets as a veritable black-box affair. Offers for purchase and sale are funneled into the bureaucracy, usually via the Ministry of Foreign Trade, where they are digested for very long periods of time. When a response emerges, little is usually known about the level at which decisions were made, and even less is known about the criteria that were employed to make them. In the abstract, at least, foreign trade decision making in the Western market economies is a rather simple exercise. An American consumer will purchase a Toyota rather than a comparable Chrysler if its price, expressed in dollars at the market exchange rate, is lower. The influences of governmental tariffs, quantitative restrictions, foreign exchange controls, "buy American" policies, and the like, are usually of only secondary importance. In contrast, the Soviet consumer, whether an individual or an industrial enterprise, does not generally have the authority to order the import | 出版日期 | Book 1983 | 关键词 | Import; economic integration; exchange rates; foreign trade; trade | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7415-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-009-7417-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-7415-9 | copyright | Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing 1983 |
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