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Economic Impact of a Potential Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Between the European Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States

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  • Joseph Francois

    () (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

  • Miriam Manchin

    () (University College London)

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We evaluate the effects of potential measures to liberalize trade between the EU and the CIS using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. We look at the CIS as an aggregate and we also present results for individual CIS countries. Our CGE model takes different underlying industry specific market structures and elasticities into account. Furthermore, the model incorporates estimated non-tariff trade barriers to trade in services. The results are compared to a baseline that incorporates recent developments in the trade policy environment, i.e. the phase out of ATC, enlargement of the EU and CIS accessions to the WTO. The analysis takes agricultural liberalization, liberalization in industrial tariffs, and liberalization in services trade as well as trade facilitation measures into account. While there is important heterogeneity in the impact of FTAs on individual countries, the results indicate that the CIS as a whole would experience a negative income effect if the FTA would be limited only to trade in goods. This is due to strong trade diversion effects. The CIS states have high tariffs, and these would remain against third countries under an FTA. This implies that the CIS would most likely to benefit from an FTA with the EU if it would incorporate deeper forms of integration not being limited to liberalization of tariffs in goods, or if it is accompanied by a general reduction in CIS tariffs against third countries.

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Paper provided by Institue for International and Development Economics in its series IIDE Discussion Papers with number 20090805.

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Length: 119 pages
Date of creation: Aug 2009
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Handle: RePEc:lnz:wpaper:20090805

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Keywords: CGE; EU-CIS Free Trade Area; Russia; Ukraine; CIS;

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  1. Miriam Frey & Zoryana Olekseyuk, 2011. "The EU-Ukraine trade liberalization: How much do the costs of tariff elimination matter?," Working Papers 308, Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (Institute for East and South-East European Studies), revised Feb 2013.

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