ABSTRACT
In the West government interests are as a rule clearly differen tiated from enterprise interests. A government body usually places political, trade, or national economic in terests above the in terests of individual enterprises. There w ill often be conflicting interests between different groups of enterprises. Export indus tr ie s generally promote East-W est cooperation, while branches of industry that supply principally the dom estic market, and hence feel them selves threatened by counter-deliveries of Eastern Euro pean products stemming from cooperative agreem ents, will tend to reject East-W est cooperation. A conflict of in terests occurs, for example, on the question of easier import term s for coopera tion products.
