Abstract
ílu Československa na celkovém evropském exportu.Right after the establishment of Czechoslovakia, it was evident that foreign trade would play an important role in the economy of the new state. The narrow domestic market forced Czechoslovak producers to look for new foreign sales opportunities.
With respect to historical ties, they were mainly interested in exports to succession states and Germany. However, the postwar conditions did not favor a considerable export expansion hampered by high tariff barriers restricting access to the markets of succession states.
The second half of the 1920s became the most successful phase in the development of interwar export. To a large extent, Czechoslovak enterprises showed good adaptability to changes in foreign demand and took advantage of the contemporaneous boom in world trade.
By contrast, the Great Depression disclosed the unfavorable consequences of Czechoslovakia?s dependency on export results. Unfortunately, an slow reaction of both the Czechoslovak gover