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Damir Jelic: “Living in the neighbourhood” - Economic Relations between Capitalist Austria and Socialist Croatia in Historical Perspective

"Living in the neighbourhood”

Table 1: Trade relationship between Socialist Yugoslavia and Capitalist Austria

Import to Yugoslavia

Export from Yugoslavia

Austria

(percent)

Europe

(percent)

Africa

(percent)

Austria

(percent)

Europe

(percent)

Africa

(percent)

1945

0.30

0.20

1946

5.70

2.70

1947

3.10

5.00

1948

4.70

6.10

1949

8.40

11.10

1950

7.41

10.06

1951

4.99

9.06

1952

1953

5.20

6.40

1954

6.40

54.10

1.70

8.30

70.00

2.20

1955

4.40

51.70

1.70

5.90

70.60

2.30

1956

4.10

60.80

1.50

5.30

78.20

2.10

1957

3.80

63.10

2.25

4.85

78.20

5.22

1958

3.70

70.30

2.80

4.27

78.40

6.21

1959

3.80

66.80

2.90

4.40

76.60

4.81

1960

4.50

73.50

6.30

5.29

77.30

6.00

1961

3.60

68.70

2.30

4.50

76.70

4.70

1962

3.60

64.69

2.80

3.90

68.40

7.47

1963

3.00

63.81

4.35

3.59

74.90

8.36

1964

2.60

69.50

4.40

3.40

77.80

4.70

1965

2.70

67.30

5.00

2.60

78.50

4.80

1966

2.40

70.70

3.30

3.70

78.30

4.70

Calculations based on data from Statistical Yearbook Yugoslavia 1918-1988

Trading activities with Croatia, for which we have data after 1971, indicate a more stable and clearer relationship. The extent of trade relationships was not very intensive, but it is obvious that Croatia imported more from than it exported to Austria. The structure of Croatian industry of that time was not much different from the Austrian one, but the Austrian one was more developed and technologically advanced. Croatians bought technologically more advanced machines, tools, chemical products etc. However, regarding the economic dependency, the African

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