ABSTRACT
For a long time, the foreign trade of the Far East (as in the country at large) was based on administrative rule and strictly centralized. The new system of tariffs, licenses, and hard-currency regulations exerts a growing influence on the foreign trade of Russia. This system has undergone a number of changes reflecting the attempts of the central government on the one hand to stimulate foreign trade activity at the micro level and on the other hand to maintain control over foreign trade at the macro level. Legislation regulating hard-currency and foreign trade operations is still, at the present time, in the process of being formulated. The law merely defines basic principles that affect national policy in the area of controlling hard currency and imports-exports, especially the export of strategic raw materials, which represents the main sphere of regulation in foreign economic relations.
