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Bulgarian-Croatian Economic Relations in the Period Between Two World Wars

Period before 1918 marks very vivid Bulgarian-Croatian relationship. This relationship emphasized cultural, scientific, artistic and somewhat political connections. Period after World War II and when the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was establishment those relations became weaker. Thus, during King Alexander’s dictatorship interstate relations are confronted with serious obstacles. However, with Croatian integration into newly formed state, Croatian – Bulgarian relations transformed into the Bulgarian-Yugoslav relations. Furthermore, political reality after the Second Balkan War and especially after the First World War outlines events which severely hampered economic relations. Related economic and foreign trade structures thus ignored the very same relations which are in the focus of this paper. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia’s Ministry of Trade and Industry archive documents indicate absence of trade structure/form and low level of relations with Bulgaria. Commodities that Yugoslavia exported to Bulgaria changed on the yearly basis due to the absence of the contractual trade agreements between two countries. This however, after 1934 resulted with partial solution, namely The Commerce and Navigation Contract that was temporally in use but not ratified until 1940 and later on fully entered into force in 1941. At the same time national banks of Bulgaria and Yugoslavia signed The Clearing Contract. However, the Commerce and Navigation Contract and the Clearing Contract were temporary acts of good political will and not in fact a real attempt to organize a functional trade and normal and undisrupted fiscal system between two countries.

Economic relation; interwar period; economic development; Commerce and Navigation Contract; export; import

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