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Trade Policies and Lithuania's Reintegration Into the Global Economy

By Peter Cornelius, Jonas Cicinskas, Dalia Treigiené

December 1, 1995

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Peter Cornelius, Jonas Cicinskas, and Dalia Treigiené. Trade Policies and Lithuania's Reintegration Into the Global Economy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed October 15, 2024
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Summary

The reintegration into the world economy has been an integral part of Lithuania’s transformation process. Trade policy reform has been assigned a key role, aiming at opening up the economy and redirecting foreign trade. This paper (i) analyzes the trade shock following the dissolution of the former Soviet Union; (ii) studies the political economy of trade reforms; (iii) evaluates Lithuania’s attempts to gain greater access to Western markets, in particular the European Union; and (iv) reviews the empirical evidence on redirecting foreign trade.

Subject: Exports, Imports, International trade, Tariffs, Taxes, Trade balance, Trade policy

Keywords: Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe, Enterprise, Europe, Export capacity, Exports, FSU country, Import, Import bill, Import protection, Imports, Lithuania, Lithuania's trade, Market structure, Net material product, Reintegration strategy, State, Tariffs, Trade, Trade balance, Trade policy, Trade policy regime, Trade reorientation, Trade shock, United Nations commodity trade Statistics, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    50

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1995/138

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1381995

  • ISBN:

    9781451929973

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941