Ograniczenia systemowe i czynnikowe eksportu wyrobów przemysłu przetwórczego Polski w latach 70. i na początku lat 80. XX wieku. (Część I)
System and Factor Limits Export of Products of Processing Industry in Poland in the 70. Years and at the Beginning of the 80. Years of the 20th Century (Part I)

Summary/Abstract: In the economic strategy of the 1970s, foreign trade was treated as a basic factor intensification of the economy and a source of increasing its effectiveness. It was about faster development of special branches in exports and their production than the entire economy, which was to ensure export dynamics surpassing the global rate of production and national income. The possibility depended on it technology imports, modernization of the entire national manufacturing apparatus, as well as enriching the market procedure. These were the reasons for the break in the 1970s with the previous policy of the 1960s closed and entering the road of its wide opening to foreign countries. It was systematic increase in the share of foreign trade in the growth of national income. Taken at the beginning of the 1970s attempts to turn the Polish economy into pro-export development paths, however, have not been positive results. Industry continued to produce mainly for the needs of the internal market, and because the size of this market was limited, consequently the production series was too small, while product range very large. This situation was not conducive to the development of exports. Also the structure polish industry was not the best, as evidenced by its high degree of material and import intensity and transport intensity. In the first half of the 1970s, a full concept was adopted the opening of the national economy. However, it should be added that it was essentially a full opening to imports, especially for the import of foreign technical thought, which, as a consequence, made the Polish economy dependent from foreign imports. Poland’s share in global exports decreased in 1979 to 1.01% (compared to 1.14% in 1970) and was significantly behind Poland’s share of the global product. The growth rate of exports, which in the years 1958-1970 amounted to an average of 12.1% per annum, decreased in the decade 1971-1980 to 8.6% per annum. The collapse took place in 1975, so when serious investment acceleration effects were to be expected. Expected effects no they came. In the years 1975-1980, the volume of Polish exports increased at a rate of only 6.6%, hence almost twice as slow as in the previous 60’s.

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