Ljiljana Pjerotic () (Culture and Education Advisor, Municipality of Budva, Montenegro)
Abstract
Included in the regional cooperation of SEE countries, trade liberalization is considered the most important factor of a sustainable economic growth which should contribute to the mutual trade among SEE countries, growth of the foreign direct investments, further production specialization and export structure change. Countries of the region have accepted liberalization as one of the conditions of the Stabilization and Association Process (SAP), hoping, each of them individually, that in that way they would improve proper position. Creating a free trade area will contribute to a further increase of intra-regional trade flows, but it shouldnt be expected that the relative importance of mutual exchange will prevail the importance which EU has for the SEE countries, except Moldova. Paper is divided into five sections. After the introduction, the trade liberalization process in the SEE region is explained in the second part (section 2). The third section analyses actual intra-regional trade flows and SEE countries trade relations with the EU (section 3). Some controversial issues raised in recent debates on trade liberalization in SEE are also discussed (section 4). The main conclusions are given at the end (section 5).
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Paper provided by Faculty of economics, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number
200845.
Length: 25 pages Date of creation: Jun 2008 Date of revision:
Dec 2008 Publication status: Published in Panoeconomicus, December 2008, pages 497-522 Handle: RePEc:voj:wpaper:200845
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