The Reorganization of Soviet Foreign Trade: Legal Aspects

ISBN-13: 9780873325080 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 356 str.

Mark M. Boguslavski;P.S. Smirnov;S.L. Levitsky

Opis

Translated from the Russian. Edited and with a foreword by Serge L. Levitsky. A systematic and authoritative analysis of current Soviet legislation related to the organization and the mechanism of foreign economic relations under perestroika. Of particular interest to prospective partners in joint v

Spis treści

Foreword by SERGE L. LEVITSKY, Introduction, 1 Recent Normative Acts Affecting Foreign Economic Operations, 2 The State Monopoly on Foreign Economic Operations in the USSR, 3 The Organization and Legal Forms of Foreign Economic Operations Today, 4 Responsibilities and Functions of State Administrative Agencies Overseeing Foreign Economic Relations, 5 Legal Status of the Foreign Trade Organizations of Branch-Industrial Ministries and Departments, 6 Enterprises (Associations) and Their Foreign Trade Companies, 7 Direct Ties with Enterprises from CMEA Member Countries, 8 Legal Forms of Relations between Industry and Foreign, 9 Scientific-Technological and Production Cooperation, 10 Joint Enterprises on the Territory of the USSR, Conclusion, Appendlces, I Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the State Enterprise (Association), II On Clarification of the Procedures for Applying Economie Sanctions Against Associations, Enterprises, and Organizations Under the Conditions of Restructuring of Economie Management, III On Confirmation of the Statute of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade, IV On Confirmation of the Statute of the USSR State Committee for Foreign Economie Relations, V On Procedures Governing the Creation and Operation on the Territory of the USSR of Joint Enterprises Involving Soviet Organizations and Firms from Capitalist and Developing Countries, VI On Questions Concerning the Creation and Operation on the Territory of the USSR of Joint Enterprises, International Associations and Organizations Involving Soviet and Foreign Organizations, Firms, and Administrative Agencies, VII On Fees Exacted for the Issuance of Permits Authorizing the Opening of Representative Offices of Foreign Firms, Banks, and Organizations in the USSR and for the Extension of Their Terms of Operation, VIII On Procedures Governing the Creation and Operation on the Territory of the USSR of Joint Enterprises, International Associations and Organizations of the USSR and Other CMEA Member Countries, IX On Additional Measures for Improving Foreign Economic Operations Under the New Conditions of Economic Management, X On the Establishment of an All-Union Ministry of Foreign Economie Relations of the USSR, XI The Foreign Economie Activity of Cooperatives, About the Authors and the Editor

O autorze

Professor M. M. Boguslavsky is a prominent Soviet jurist and an internationally recognized specialist in the fields of private international law, copyright and patent law, and legal-economic relations with other countries. He is the author of over 150 publications in these areas, and numerous of his books have been published outside the Soviet Union in English, German, Japanese, Spanish, and other languages. A holder of the degree of Doctor of Juridical Sciences, he currently occupies the position of Section Chief at the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences., P. S. Smirnov is a high-ranking Soviet foreign trade official who has published extensively in the major Soviet scholarly and business journals. He is currently Deputy Chief of the Department of International Economic Organizations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade, and he holds the degree of Candidate of Juridical Sciences., Serge L. Levitsky is one of the world's foremost specialists in the fields of international copyright law and legal issues of East-West trade. His publications in these areas number in the hundreds, among which are Introduction to Soviet Copyright Law (1964) and Copyright, Defamation, and Privacy in Soviet Civil Law (1979). Formerly Vice-President of Chase Manhattan Bank and Professor of Law at the New York Law School, Professor Levitsky currently serves as acting editor of the Review of Socialist Law, a quarterly published by the Documentation Office for East European Law of the University of Leyden, and editor of the quarterly Soviet Statutes and Decisions.