Antistatic and electrically conducting composition

A shaped article, film, coating or composite produced from a composition which comprises

• a) a thermoplastic polymer soluble in an inert organic solvent selected from the group consisting of polymers, polyester-amides, polyurethanes, polyamides, polycarbonates and polyimides derived from monomers containing hydroxyl groups, saponified and unsubstituted or hydroxyalkylated polymers of vinyl esters and ethers, hydroxylated polybutadiene and polyisoprene, polyacrylates and polymethacrylates containing hydroxyalkyl radicals in the ester group, polyacrylic and polymethacrylic acids, and reduced polyketones and copolymers thereof, as well as copolymers of unsubstituted or hydroxyalkylated vinyl alcohol, acrylates and methacrylates, acrylic acids and methacrylic acids and diolefins with comonomers acrylonitrile, olefins, diolefins, vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, vinyl fluoride, vinylidene fluoride, styrene, .alpha.-methylstyrene, maleic anhydride, maleimide, vinyl ethers and vinyl esters, and polyadducts of unsubstituted or hydroxyalkylated epoxy compounds containing an average of more than one epoxy group per molecule, with diols, primary monoamines, disecondary diamines, disecondary linear or cyclic dicarboxylic acid diamides or dicarboxylic acids, which thermoplastic polymer contains aliphatic or cycloaliphatic side groups bonded to a polymer backbone via a group --O--, --O--OR.sup.22 --OCO-- or --CO--O--, said side groups containing at least one Cl, Br or I atom in the .alpha.-, .beta.-, .gamma.- or .omega.-position, R.sup.22 being C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 alkylene, C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 cycloalkylene, C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 cycloalkylene-CH.sub.2 --, C.sub.4 --C.sub.12 cycloalkylene-(CH.sub.2)--.sub.2, benzylene or xylylene which is unsubstituted or substituted by OH, Cl, Br or phenyl, and, suspended therein, in the form of a needle network of crystal needles
• b) 0.01 to 20% by weight, based on polymer a), of a charge transfer complex formed of chlorine, bromine or iodine and a compound of formula I or Ia ##STR46## or mixtures thereof, wherein X is S, Se or Te, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each independently of the others a hydrogen atom or Cl, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 and/or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, together are each ##STR47## or R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each phenylthio, 4-methylphenylthio, 4-methoxy-phenylthio or pyrid-4-ylthio, and R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7 R.sup.8 are independently of the others H or F, or R.sup.5 is CH.sub.3 and R.sup.6, R.sup.7 R.sup.8 are H, or R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 are CH.sub.3, or R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are CH.sub.3 or Cl and R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 are H, or R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are H, R.sup.7 is --COR.sup.9 and R.sup.8 is H or --COR.sup.9, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are H and R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 together are --CO--O--CO-- or --CO--NR.sup.10 --CO--, wherein R.sup.9 is halogen, --OH, --NH.sub.2, the radical of an alcohol or of a primary or secondary amine, or --OM, M being a cation, and R.sup.10 is H or the radical of a primary amine from which the NH.sub.2 group has been removed.