ABSTRACT
Over the course of an extended period of time, foreign trade has played an auxiliary role in the economic development of the Far East. Commercial ties with important markets have only supplemented interregional ties. At the same time, in terms of the volume of exports, the Far East surpasses a number of larger economic areas; indeed, in certain goods, exports from the Far East have played an extremely important role in the formation of the country’s hard-currency earnings. That applies, above all, to the several export goods, where the Far East accounted for a substantial share of the Soviet exports of raw timber (40 percent), fish (26.5 percent), and canned fish (22.3 percent). Nevertheless, the impact of foreign trade on the economic development of the Far East has been limited.
