@article{article_373041, title={OFFSET AS AN ECONOMIC OPERATION AND A TRADE PRACTICE}, journal={IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences}, volume={3}, pages={1051–1055}, year={2017}, DOI={10.18769/ijasos.373041}, url={https://izlik.org/JA23BM98SJ}, author={Terziev, Venelin and Madanski, Veselin and Georgiev, Marin}, keywords={offset,defence,transaction,trade}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"> <span lang="BG" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Offset agreements are widespread in sales of defense products. There is a steady tendency to increase their share as a percentage of world trade. Developed countries with well-established Defence Technological and Industrial Bases, use offset transactions to target activities to business organizations and countries with emerging economies use offset to gain military and commercial benefits. The following </span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language: EN-US">paper </span> <span lang="BG" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> examines the offset as an economic operation which represents a wide range of industrial and trade practices </span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">. <o:p> </o:p> </span> </p>}, number={9}