MONOPOLISTIC TENDENCIES APPEAR IN ENTERPRISES; TRACTORS, TRUCKS TO BE SOLD ON FREE MARKET

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700070074-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: June 9, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Economic -Internal trade
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily nexepnpers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Zagreb; Split
DATE
PUBLISHED 2, l0 Feb 1952
LANGUAGE 3erbo-Croatian
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MCAOPOLI9TIC '1~ADEACII+S APPEAR IIP ERZERPRISES;
'CRAG S. TRUCIfg TO BE SOLD OA
SCORES MOAOPOLISTIC TEADEIPCIES __ Zc:greb, Horbn, 10 Feb 52
Monopolistic tendencies, under various guises and various excuses, directly
contrary to Yugoslav existence and conceptions of xhat constitutes free coas~erce,
are evidencing themselves.
Individual city people's councils are striving to preserve comerce for
their ova cosmsercisl enterprises. This ie especially true as regards agri-
cult?.u~al cooperatives. In acme places, it hoe been difficult to break up this
monopoly of city commercial enterpriaea. Individual councils have explained
this by saying it is e~eler to supervise one enterprise than a large auaber of
eaall ones. .
Such monopolistic tendencies are propitious for co~ercisl enterprises to
maintain high prices at the expense of consumers. Lately, if cc?ercial enter-
prises have encountered competition in their own markets, they have requested
protection from their city council or price office to protect their prices and
have requested that nevly-opened cosmerce be closed, ae recently occurre8 be-
txeen Belgrade enterprises which had a monopoly on the furniture morass and the
Slovenako Poduzece "Les" ("Les" Slovenian Wood Enterprise).
Some industrial enterprises doubled the prices of their products over-
night and canceled commercial agreements vhea they learned that commercial enter-
prises must purchase merchandise from them.
Lately, there have been tendencies for a large number of industrial enter-
prises to associate on the basis of the commercial distribution market or the
monopolistic procurement of raw materials. There have been attempts to specu-
late ni: the erFeenae oP consumers.
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Formal proposals seeking approval to form business associations for the
whole of Yugoslavia have come from various industrial branches and republics,
Such proposals have been su2ni,tted by the enterprises of the electric industry,
the tobacco industry, the petroleum industry, the sugar industry, and others.
The electric industry has sought the establishment of an association of its
production and ec?erciel enterprises which would be similar to a point-stock
association. The Directorate for Petrdleum (Direkci~n za Aaftu) in Zagreb
has sought to establish sn nasocintion which would regulate import and export,
control production of petroleum derivatives, and also control the entire com-
mercial network involved. Production enterprises are associating Xithout
official permission, and unregistered adsociatione are being established.
Today, there are about 70 associations, s large number of which were estab-
lished for purposes of speculation, ae vas brought out at the meeting of the
Council for Industry and Construction of Yugoslavia (Sav~eta zn Industri,7u i
Gradevinarstvo Made FARJ),
The proposals for establishment of associations include problems which
ennnot be solved by federal or republic councils. These include the problem
of balancing production and consumption, the specific problems of individual'
branches, the exchange of experiences, the understanding of technologl.cal pro-
cesees involved, the problem of factories supplementing each other's Production,
and the exchange of ideas. This involves associating on a production and
technological basis, and technical cooperation for the purpose of facilitating
production.
Hove-ror, the proposals for establishment of associations also include
tendencies unrelated to the flmctions for which such organizations are ee-
tnbliehed, These tendencies include the tendency toxard cartelization, as
in the point-stock aeaocintions, and the limitation of commercial activity in
distribution and regulation of assortments, in point investigation of markets,
and in bookkeeping, ell of which are connected with the question oP sharing
and solving problems arising from production and market distribution.
Cartels and point-stock aseociatione are the designated forms and aspects
of capitalistic enterprises, established to eliminate competition and create
ae great a profit as possible. This is not in accord with the Yugoslav under-
atanling of what constitutes democracy and socialism, which do not permit either
state monopoly or monopoly by individual economic branches or enterprises.
The Trgovineko Poduzece "Jugopet~ol" ("Jugopetrol" Ca?ercial Enterprise)
and the Agenci~a Rafineri~e Hafts (Petroleum Refinery Agency) in Bosanski Brod
are examples of monopoly. All consumers, even those whe have tank care or
fuel tanks, such ea railroads and other industries, must order petroleum de-
rivatives through Agenci~e Rafineri~e Hafts. It assigns their orders to the
refinery with which "Jugopetrol" has an agreement for the delivery of such
products. Because of this administrative service, which sloes up delivery,
"Jugopetrol" pays a charge for products which do sot even pans through its
warehouse.
ISSUES DECREE OH SALE OF B~ACT~iS, IItUCIS3 __ Split, Slobodna Dalmaci,~s, 2 Feb 52
Belgrade, 1 February __ As proposed by,the president of the Council for
Industry and Construction of Yugoslavia (Sav~eta za Industri~u 1 GrndJevinaretvo
Vlade FHRJ), the president of Yugoslavia recently issued a decree regarding
the sale of tractors and trucks. By this decree, preducera may sell tractors
and trucks directly or throvgh r.~o coom!ercic.}. oat2rork only tb a3ricultwel co-
operatives and 3cate farms. ,
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