Increasing trade with nations under different economic systems including setting up new production facilities, expanding and modernizing existing plant capacities, developing and exploiting natural resources, developing or improving infrastructure, subcontracting, joint assembling, and other means of producing jointly; cooperating in science and technology, cooperating in economic planning and cooperating in ventures in third countries.
While trade between different economic systems has existed for centuries, the most recent developments in this area have occurred between communist China and the Western economies and between Eastern bloc nations and the third world.
The broad objectives of the strategy are accepted by the negotiating parties in a form acceptable to other trading nations. Current objectives are the development of trade with less developed countries and non-discrimination in trade between nations and groups of nations. Trade negotiations between the parties proceeds from general trade policy decisions to specific trade agreements. The payment conditions may be affected by special credits or subsidies arranged by the seller nation. They may include barter as a means of settlement. Technical assistance may be arranged to promote production in the less developed country under the terms of the agreement.