ABSTRACT
The geographic structure of trade of East-Central European postcommunist economies underwent radical change in early transition. After just a few years (from 1989, the last full year of communism, to 1992, or 1994 at the latest) the dominant part of their trade, both exports and imports, shifted from the East (i.e. intra-COMECON) to the West, that is to trade with the mature market economies. The general thrust of the reorientation from the macro-level vantage point has been dealt with in Chapter 2.
