During the cold war planned economies tried to separate their internal and external trade, so as not to be affected by international trade cycles while trading with capitalist countries. However, researchers have in both old and recent discussions pointed out that planned economies trade with market economies could have affected their internal trade. This paper studies the effects of market economies foreign trade development on European planned economies foreign trade development between 1958-1991. It combines the theory of transferring market cycles through foreign trade with theories of market economies effects on planned economies. The foreign trade development of market economies had a greater effect on the smaller planned economies than on the Soviet Union. The foreign trade of the planned economies was also affected by the lifting of the CoCom embargo and the foreign trade reforms among Comecon members in 1958. Planned economies also seem to have had an internal investment structure similar to the market economies, since both economic systems were affected in the same way by international price shocks.

This paper discusses the importance of Czechoslovak foreign trade with the EEC countries for the period of normalization. In the theoretical part, the author defines the issues of foreign trade. It deals with the variety of business concepts, tools of trade policy and the overall importance of international trade for the economy. In the analytical part describes the main organizations affecting foreign trade relations of Czechoslovakia after World War II, relations between the two organizations, bipolar division of the world and the position of Czechoslovakia in world trade. In the second part, the author analyzes the overall Czechoslovak foreign trade, territorial distribution and commodity structure of exports and imports. The last part focuses on the evaluation of the importance of trade with the EEC Member States, its development and shortcomings.

The idea of International Division of Labor (IDL) came along with the diffusion of the capitalism as production way. However, had a IDL background in the block of socialist countries that if it organized since the scope of the Council for the Economic Mutual Assistance (CMEA). Throughout the decades where the CMEA was effective, the countries that were part of the Council had created an important scene of interdependences uncountable to the exchanges of merchandises and services, economic control, promotion of cooperation institutions and specialization, and an infrastructure in which if they supported the economic relations between the members. However, chain instead of net interdependences no if show mature and solid to resist, without being damaged, to the re-approach with the capitalist countries, from the Seventies and to the collapse of the real socialism in the Nineties. Concerning this aspect, we believe that the referring limitations to the CMEA have origin in the historical and structural formation of the proper Council. Thus, this work aims to analyze the trajectory of four decades of existence of the CMEA (1949-1991) from its beddings and proper structures of functioning and to point elements that can have contributed for the process of weakness and posterior dissolution of the Council. / A idéia de Divisão Internacional do Trabalho (DIT) surgiu com a difusão do capitalismo como modo de produção. Contudo, houve historicamente uma DIT no bloco de países socialistas que se organizou desde o âmbito do Conselho para o Auxílio Mútuo Econômico (CAME). Ao longo das décadas em que esteve vigente o CAME, os países que constituíam o Conselho criaram um importante cenário de interdependências em relação às trocas de mercadorias e serviços, regulação econômica, promoção de instituições de cooperação e especialização, e uma infraestrutura na qual se apoiavam as relações econômicas entre os membros. No entanto, esta rede de interdependências não se mostrou madura e sólida para resistir, sem abalos, à reaproximação com os países capitalistas, a partir dos anos setenta e ao colapso do socialismo real nos anos noventa. Nesse sentido, acreditamos que as limitações referentes ao CAME têm origem na formação histórica e estrutural do próprio Conselho. Dessa forma, este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a trajetória de quatro décadas de existência do CAME (1949-1991) a partir de seus fundamentos e estruturas próprias de funcionamento e apontar elementos que possam ter contribuído para o processo de enfraquecimento e posterior dissolução do Conselho. / Mestre em Economia