Food products and transport equipment are the primary manufacturing branches. 28.2 2.1 Of all the post communist states of Eastern Europe the Czech Rep. is considered to have undertaken the transition to a market economy system with greatest success. Industry, based on the minerals coal and lignite, is the dominant sector. The ethnic conflict resulted in steep and rapid economic decline. The main agricultural production areas and industrial facilities have been destroyed during the war.
Tourism plays a key role in the reconstruction of Croatia's economy.
The transition to market economy was not without problems. Privatization partly has been done. Major agricultural products are wheat, maze, sugar beet. Viticulture is important. Service sector and tourism play key role.