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Recent Developments in Russian Trade Policy: Special Case of Trade Facilitation within the Eurasian Economic Union

28 November 2018

Trade facilitation is one of the key trends in the international trading system development. Respective World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement – Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) is one of really few tangible achievements during Doha round of multilate ...

Customs unions of commodity exporting countries: advantages and problems

28 November 2018

A descriptive analysis of foreign trade statistics of developing countries shows that among the customs unions (CU) member states, the majority are primarily exporters of commodities (their share in exports is above 50%), while countries whose exports are ...

Japan's Participation in bilateral free trade agreements

28 November 2018

Studying trends and peculiarities of Japanese Economic partnership agreements and FTAs shows that they tend to become more complicated by scope and details. However, their utilization rate remains insufficient: less than 40 [percent. The transfer to the F ...

Transformation of foreign economic relations of Russia: turn to the East?

28 November 2018

For a long time Russia earned hard currency by selling oil and gas to Europe and spent a large part of it, buying Chinese consumer and investment products. The politically motivated "Turn to the East" moves slowly and so far has not changed the ...

Two models of regional integration in Latin America

28 November 2018

The author compares two types of regional trade agreements (RTA) in Latin America. First (historically)- based on Balassa scheme and leading to the customs unions, and second, going in line with open regionalism. He tests the correlation of the participat ...

Eurasian economic union today: problems and solutions

28 November 2018

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) as the integration project has achieved the first successes, but has faced also serious challenges. This article is devoted to the problems which this integration union and its member countries have to deal with. A concl ...

Transformation of Russia's trade policy: turning to Asia, focusing on China

28 November 2018

The evolution of international economic relations in recent years has prompted the Russian Federation to reconsider its role in the neighborhood and on the global stage. In particular, the Ukrainian crisis and the Western economic sanctions against Russia ...

An Estimation Of The Impact of Economic Sanctions And Oil Price Shocks on Iran-Russian trade: Evidence from a Gravity- VEC appro

28 November 2018

This article is an empirical attempt to explore the relationship between sanctions (financial and non-financial), oil price shocks and Iran-Russian bilateral trade flows over the period 1991–2014. In contrast to earlier studies in which a gravity model ha ...

The impact of sanctions on Russia’s trade flows: Preliminary Estimations

28 November 2018

The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of sanctions on commodity composition and direction of exports and imports of the Russian Federation. To this end, we use a panel data over 2012–2016 to estimate ...

RTAs versus the WTO in the dispute settlement: Latin American experience

28 November 2018

The article analyses the experience of Latin American countries (LAC) with regards to their participation in various economic dispute settlement mechanisms. Despite the existence of multilateral bodies and rules for dispute resolution, countries creating ...

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