ABSTRACT
The branch system of managing industry will undoubtedly permit a more rational approach to the distribution of production. The new system will ensure a more efficient use of raw materials and production capacities. Trade personnel anticipate that the industrial ministries will plan production on the basis of national interests, that is, so as both to load capacities fully and to produce only goods that have been ordered. Centralization of the management of trade on a nationwide scale, carried out alongside of the centralization of industrial management by branches, gives the trade network new possibilities for maneuvering with commodity resources. The role of wholesale trade will grow considerably under the new system of production planning. The factories demand large customers for themselves: this is more convenient for production, and for trade and the purchaser also. The purchaser will also gain a great deal from the fact that a single trade branch has now been restored for the whole country.
