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Adalat J. Muradov, Nazim O. Hajiyev: Competitive environment is the main factor for integration
into the world economy

sugar syndicate controlling 70% of internal market and 80% of export, paper syndicate controlling

80% of paper production and etc. could be noticed [Bagdanov A. 1993.p.118].

Prodamet syndicate took major role among Russian syndicates. This syndicate controlled 83

% of iron sort and layer iron, 95 % of log and sveller , 75 % of railway rails and 100% of railway

shafts production and sales in 1912. Produgol syndicate took second place controlling all production

of Donetsk coal field or approximately 2/3 part of Russian coal production. This syndicate

continuously limited coal supply in market and gained opportunity to increase prices sharply by

creating an artificial coal shortage. With the same method sugar syndication (100% of production),

Roofing syndication (70% of the production of iron roofing), Copper syndication (95% of

copper production), "Platinum" Syndication (90% of platinum production), tobacco trust (70%),

plug trust (100%), syndication manufacturing agricultural tools (more than 70%) and "Prodvaqon"

syndication (97% of wagon production) functioned well. Syndicate movement also covered

production of matches, bottles, mirror glass, brick, salt, river transport and etc. [Chyperovich G.

1988.p.299].

Monopolization firstly covered raw materials, fuel and producing lower-level

manufacturing products sectors. Production conditions of these sort of products were little

different in various companies and consumers as a rule not preferred the certain types.

On the other hand, high-level processing areas could hardly monopolized due to the

extreme variety of products [Shasta I. 1991.p.170]. For example, big electro-technical enterprises

got agreement on a small number of dams for some special products in this period in Germany.

As the differences on the technologies, values of the labour force and commercial methods

estimated so high and companies were in different situation as a result of monopolization. Failed

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