Trade Policies and Lithuania's Reintegration Into the Global Economy
December 1, 1995
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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
Pages:
50
Volume:
1995
DOI:
Issue:
138
Series:
Working Paper No. 1995/138
Stock No:
WPIEA1381995
ISBN:
9781451929973
ISSN:
1018-5941
