Economic Relations between Yugoslavia and Romania during the 1960s N EMANJA M ITROVI Ć Nemanja Mitrović M. A. at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Iron Gates (1970) SOURCE: The Romanian Communism Online Photo Collection. THIS PAPER gives an overview of the economic relations between the Social- ist Republic of Romania and the So- cialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1960 and 1970, highlighting the characteristics and peculiarities of foreign trade, and the problems which occurred in other aspects of economic cooperation. An important part of the paper is the analysis of the most im- portant meetings between Yugoslav and Romanian officials and experts in economy. Other forms of economic cooperation are also presented. Yugoslav-Romanian relations were characterized by mutual trust and a high degree of cooperation. However, a high level of political understanding was not accompanied by adequate re- sults in developing the specific bilat- eral cooperation (economic, cultural, scientific-technical, etc.). The economic cooperation between Yugoslavia and Romania was relatively modest. Of the socialist countries, only Albania had a smaller volume of trade with Yugoslavia. If we look at the ten- year period between 1960 and 1970, there is a significant change in the vol-