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 | | The prime ministers of the CEFTA countries plan to meet again in the autumn of 2003, when Slovenia is president, to discuss the future in detail. | | | CEFTA, the Central European Free Trade Agreement, is important to Hungary, and the government is working to expand the liberalisation of trade among its present seven members. | | | CEFTA members, in the meantime, plan to continue liberalising their markets. |
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| | Druckansicht |
| | Agricultural policy reform on these lines means that the fiscal costs of accession by the associated countries are substantially lower than in the status quo scenario, and, indeed, that in scenario C a reduction in the EU (15) agricultural policy budget is to be expected. | | | The net costs of the accession of the CEFTA (5) in the year 2000 would amount to ECU 33 billion. | | | For the CEFTA (5), accession costs of just over ECU 1 billion would be expected in the year 2005 or 2010 as a result of the agricultural policy reform (cf. |
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| | CEFTA members also assisted each other in the process of acceding to the European Union, even though this is not specified in the partnership agreement. | | | Instead, CEFTA classifies products in four groups: A - products completely free of customs, B - products with a reduced customs rate, as well as C and D - agreed upon bilaterally for products for which customs have been either reduced or abolished and which may also be subject to tariff quotas. | | | However, if Croatia's deficit in trade with Slovenia is taken into account in these statistics, Slovenia's balance of trade with CEFTA is shifted into the black. |
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| | Slovenia News |
| | The agreement to change the Central Free European Trade Agreement was signed at a session of the CEFTA joint committee on July 4this year, which amended Article 41 of CEFTA on validity and cancellation of the agreement with a provision on ceased validity in case of EU membership. | | | The last such occasion was at the session of a joint committee of CEFTA attended by economics ministers and at the meeting of agriculture ministers. | | | Because of the relatively long cancellation deadline and because EU membership is a goal of all CEFTA signatories, the agreement was amended with a special provision on cancellation of membership in case of EU entry without preliminary official notification. |
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| | NATO Colloquium 1997: Polish Trade with CEFTA Countries: In Search of Promising Sectors |
| | CEFTA countries under specific conditions can be considered as good investment markets because their economies were in the past based upon self-sufficiency, just as the defence sector was until recently in the West. | | | Foreign affiliates in CEFTA countries are beginning to play an active role in reducing the region's trade deficit, even though they often are accused of doing the exact opposite (initially importing heavily from their home market before sourcing components from host country suppliers). | | | Moreover, CEFTA countries in the EU would be beneficial for all EU member states since it would increase the competitiveness of different groups of products, including those of declining industries. |
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| | Warsaw Voice - A 'Dress Rehearsal' Trade Pact |
| | During the Warsaw meeting, the ministers amended the original text of the CEFTA agreement to open CEFTA to aspiring members. | | | Polish politicians agree that CEFTA was not introduced to replace the defunct Comecon but to square trade accounts between Central European countries. | | | CEFTA countries have bought duty-free products from the EU, for instance, and then sold them to other CEFTA members with high customs duties slapped on. |
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| | 98 Annual Economic Mirror - 11/98 SLOVENIA—CEFTA: EFFICIENCY OF FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT |
| | It was again established that liberalisation in trade with CEFTA countries had no influence on the imports of those products from these countries which are preferred by the Slovene economy or consumers. | | | Excerpts from a research by Majcen B. and Damijan J.P.: An Assessment of Impact of Free-Trade Agreement with CEFTA Countries on the Slovenian Economy. | | | Such results were not expected, since it could be assumed (theoretically and on the basis of rapid growth in trade between CEFTA countries along with decreased trade barriers) that growing trade was primarily a consequence of this decrease and therefore additional evaluations were made. |
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| | Warsaw Voice - Five Years of Freer Trade |
| | During the coming years, CEFTA member countries are planning to liberalize the flow of capital and services. | | | Just before the holidays, economy ministers of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) countries signed a document in Warsaw anticipating a lowering-and, in some cases, a lifting-of customs duties on agricultural products in trade with Slovenia. | | | With this goal in mind, a gradual liberalization of customs charges (mainly for industrial articles) is in progress. |
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| | CENTRAL EUROPEAN DILEMMA |
| | CEFTA was intended to build the free trade region, and thus remove mutual barriers among the member states to trade in line with the provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) concerning transition period. | | | Given the significant income gap even to these poorest EU members states, the CEFTA (5) countries would, on this basis, have to receive per country support of around ECU 500 million in the year 2000, which represents total of about 33 billion. | | | In 1993 average income in the CEFTA countries as a whole amounted to 35% of the EU average. |
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| | In past years CEFTA has been pushed out of the limelight by the urgent drive of nations in the region to join the European Union as soon as possible. | | | The two-day conference, scheduled for April 7 and 8, aims to promote U.S. investment in CEFTA countries. | | | More than 150 U.S. corporations are expected to attend, as well as high-ranking U.S. government officials. |
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| | Insert Table 2 As a result of rapidly increasing bilateral trade, CEFTA countries’ share in total Slovenian exports in the period 1992-1999 increased from 3.6% to 6.7%, and their share in total imports increased from 5% to 7.7%. | | | The choice of the latter is natural since we want to describe the process of trade reorientation as a process of transition between two trade regimes: from an initial protectionistic regime, when trade was on a low level, to a liberalized one. | | | It is interesting to note, that the shares of individual CEFTA countries’ trade in total trade increased nearly equally. |
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| | Slovenia Business Week |
| | The recently reached agreements on further liberalisation of the agricultural market between individual CEFTA signatories and the EU have led to a state where advantages that CEFTA members grant to each other are not as big as those given by the EU. | | | Such a move would increase flexibility of the integration process, making integration possible also for those countries that could not participate in the agreement due to particularly delicate aspects of their economy. | | | The co-operation between candidate countries for EU membership within the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) has definitely contributed to making them fit for the integration in the EU, said Slovenian PM Janez Drnovsek, who attended the CEFTA summit in the Slovakian capital on Saturday, 14 September. |
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| | Hungary Advocates Further Development of CEFTA |
| | Last year trade with CEFTA accounted for 9.1pc of Hungary's total exports and 8pc of its total imports. | | | These states accounted for 9.1pc of its total export and 8pc of its total import. | | | The foreign affairs spokesman said in the 17-23 January, 2002 issue of Figyelő that the value of disputed exports makes up EUR 50-60 million and accounts for 1pc of the full CEFTA goods turnover. |
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http://home.btconnect.com/hungarytrade/itd2/cefta.htm
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| | The CEFTA agreement and its functionality can be considered as solid field training both for Romania and for other member states, to test their ability to evolve in a free trade framework; moreover, with sensitive products such as agrofood products. | | | Under CEFTA rules, only those countries are eligible for membership, which signed an Association Agreement with the EU, are WTO members and signed bilateral free trade agreements with all CEFTA members. | | | The only CEFTA countries with which the Romanian agro-food trade balance is positive are Slovenia and Slovakia. |
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| | Bulgaria gets CEFTA presidency - Business news |
| | The three prime ministers and five deputy prime ministers who attended the CEFTA conference assessed the 10 years of CEFTA as successful. | | | Cooperation of these three members in the future will be based on the association's agreement, which these members signed with the EU, the heads of their delegations declared at the meeting. | | | BULGARIAN Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg attended the latest meeting of the heads of government of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) in its present format on November 7 in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. |
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| | SD: Institutions : Land markets and land prices in the Central European Free Trade Agreement countries |
| | The general perception about land prices in all CEFTA countries is that they are low, as a result of the general economic transition process, the restructuration of the collective production units, and the government regulations in the land market. | | | This article seeks to provide an overview of the land market situation in the CEFTA countries, with special attention to the way in which each country is following, supporting and defining land prices to improve land market performance, and/or to incorporate the state owned land into the market. | | | In all cases, however, the problems faced in the agricultural sector are strongly related to the land reforms implemented in each country. |
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| | The prime ministers of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) countries at a summit in Bratislava on Saturday expressed the wish that Croatia be admitted to this organisation by the end of the year. | | | The prime ministers welcome the fact that negotiations on Croatia's admission to the CEFTA are almost over, and urge all participants to accelerate the preparation of all documents and invest every effort so that the agreement on Croatia's membership may be signed by year's end, read the summit's final declaration. | | | At a summit of prime ministers of member countries of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) in Bratislava, Croatia on Saturday concluded negotiations on signing a free trade agreement with Romania, which opened the doors to its full membership in CEFTA. |
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| | INFOBUSINESS 7-8/1999 - TRADE FLOWS BETWEEN CEFTA AND THE EURROPEAN UNION |
| | For the other CEFTA countries, the three export sectors hold a minor share of their total exports to the EU, an average of 23% in 1998. | | | Between 1992 and 1998, in contrast to the total CEFTA trade deficit, the Bulgarian trade deficit with the EU has remained stable and relatively small. | | | However, the difference in their growth was not sufficient to avoid an increase in the trade deflcit, which grew by 1.6 billion ECU during this period. |
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| | Slovenia Business Week |
| | Slovenia applied for CEFTA membership after meeting all the formal criteria, such as membership in the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as well as signing bilateral agreements will the four original CEFTA signatory countries. | | | The CEFTA agreement has been changed and amended many times since Slovenia became its signatory. | | | All CEFTA countries agree that CEFTA activities should support EU accession for its countries as soon as possible. |
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| | Permanent Mission of Hungary to the United Nations |
| | Based on political confidence, the economies of the CEFTA members also began to develop with access to the new preferential markets of each other. | | | The prime ministers also meet regularly, while current issues are discussed by working committees of ministry experts. | | | In the course of a visit by Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus to Hungary in mid-March, the sides stated they consider bilateral and inter-CEFTA cooperation to be important elements in Euro-Atlantic integration. |
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| | Ukrainian Prime Minister Valery Pustovoitenko has agreed with CEFTA on a plan for Ukraine's entry into the organization, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Ties Sergei Osynka told Interfax-Ukraine on 14 September. | | | The scheme envisages concluding bilateral freetrade agreements with CEFTA members. | | | In his opening address, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek said CEFTA membership would help countries prepare to join the EU. |
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| | Another sticking point between CEFTA countries is the issue of integration of some of its members into the European Union (EU). | | | But member countries who are not in line for EU integration have criticized the comparison, fearing that once CEFTA members gain EU membership, they'll abandon the association. | | | The association was created to establish a free trade zone by the year 2001 by gradually reducing and eliminating tariffs. |
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| | International Economics - Regional Trading Agreements |
| | The prime ministers of seven CEFTA countries met in a plenary session to evaluate economic co-operation and trade relations among the signatories of these recent years and to set the guidelines for future economic co-operation and activities within the CEFTA. | | | Each year the presiding country is organising a meeting of the CEFTA Joint Committee, its members being ministers responsible for the foreign economic relations of the Parties to the Central European Free Trade Agreement. | | | However, it is willing to replace the Protocols 11, 12 and 13 to the Agreement on Accession to the CEFTA in accordance with the rules on liberalization applied within the provisions of the CEFTA. |
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| | Communiqué of the Agricultural Ministers of the CEFTA countries Meeting |
| | The Representatives of the CEFTA Parties informed each other on the situation in their agricultural sectors and on strategies and national policies for further development. | | | With reference to the agricultural trade, the Representatives of the CEFTA Parties appreciated the results from the Joint Committee held on July 3, 2002 and confirmed that they are a basis for solving the existing problems taking into consideration the interests of all CEFTA Parties. | | | With regard to the accession to the EU, it is recommended to focus on harmonisation with the respective EU legislation. |
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| | Before the transition, under the protective umbrella of the CMEA, machinery and transport equipment was the most important commodity group in mutual trade of the later CEFTA members with a share of over 50%; its share in exports to the EU amounted to a mere 14%. | | | The Europe Agreements established the framework for comprehensive economic cooperation between the CEECs and the EU, based on the gradual introduction of free trade in industrial products, concessions in trade in agricultural products, partial liberalization of services trade, and detailed regulation of several other important issues of economic cooperation. | | | European Integration: the CEFTA and the Europe Agreements |
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| | Thus, the co-ordinated co-operation between the individual customs laboratories of CEFTA member countries is beneficial in relation to the rational and co-ordinated use of available resources. | | | The main task of this international working group is to develop strategy for the joint policy of customs laboratories of CEFTA member countries including their “pre-accession strategy” to the European Union and initiation of other co-operative activities that will be of mutual benefits. | | | For the future development of Czech Customs Technical Laboratory it is also necessary to pay attention to the professional and scientific co-ordination in accordance with customs laboratories of other CEFTA member countries and with respect to the “pre-accession” strategy for their integration to the European Union. |
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| | The general objective of the CEFTA — similarly to the European Union — is to provide commercial concessions for the participating countries but does not aim to fully liberalize trade. | | | The customs for these group of products used to be very similar in each country before the establishment of the CEFTA. | | | The agreement played a significant role in the fact that the fall in the foreign trade of Hungary with the initial CEFTA countries stopped and trade activity started a robust growth. |
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| | The Slovak Spectator - Slovakia's English Language Newspaper |
| | Bilateral agreements with CEFTA members, an association agreement with the EU and membership in either the World Trade Organization on (WTO) or the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) are the fundamental conditions for CEFTA membership. | | | "CEFTA is a sort of training for European membership," parroted Ion Mihai Roshka, spokesman for Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Vacariu. | | | "All the CEFTA members want to change from the planned economy of the Comecon type to European standards," Videnov said. |
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| | Econews No.115 from Hungary |
| | Since its foundation, CEFTA's trade protocols have frequently been amended: cuts in industrial tariffs have been accelerated and farming preferences have been expanded. | | | Budapest, June 18, 1999 (MTI-ECONEWS) - CEFTA ministers meeting behind closed doors in Budapest on Friday are expected to set up a subcommittee to tackle farm trade disputes within the Central European free trade organisation. | | | Hungary's January-April exports to CEFTA countries totalled USD 589.2m, 6pc less than in the same period in 1998. |
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| | News from Bulgaria / Sept. 12, 95 |
| | Bulgaria's future integration with CEFTA will be realized through bilateral accords and agreements, said host of the summit Vaclav Klaus in answer to a BTA question on the possible effect of CEFTA integration on the relations between its members and other Eastern European states. | | | At their meeting in Brno today, the CEFTA prime ministers will consider an abolition of customs duties on most of the goods traded between their countries and will attend the formal opening of the autumn Brno Fair. | | | In his greetings address to the participants in the CEFTA summit the Bulgarian prime minister said that since the early 90s Bulgaria has been pursuing a liberal trade policy in line with the internationally acknowledged rules in this sphere. |
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| | Drnovsek stressed the importance of cooperation between CEFTA members and the need to increase trade liberalization of the agriculture sectors as important steps to expanding CEFTA and EU integration. | | | Hungary is set to pass key pieces of secondary legislation to the Telecoms Act (which came into force at the end of 2001) by the end of 2002. | | | Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek highlighted the contributions that membership in the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) brought to countries seeking EU membership, at this year's CEFTA summit on September 14th. |
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| | Central European Free Trade Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Through CEFTA, participating countries hoped to mobilize efforts to integrate Western European institutions and through this, to join European political, economic, security and legal systems, thereby consolidating democracy and free-market economics. | | | A large proportion of CEFTA foreign trade is with EU countries. | | | The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) is a trade agreement between Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia. |
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| | As a result, Hungary's trade balance with CEFTA in the first eight months of 1999 deteriorated by USD 163.9m from a year earlier to a USD 28.2m deficit. | | | The company will finance the investment from its registered capital. | | | Budapest, October 19, 1999 (MTI-ECONEWS) - The two-day annual meeting of the prime ministers of Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) countries in Budapest started on Tuesday, MTI reported. |
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| | The problem for the future development CEFTA is that the five members of CEFTA prepare their activities for the EU: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia and therefor they have less interest to develop activities in CEFTA. | | | The CEFTA´s aim is to create the zone of free trade for industrial products in the period to 2001 and to eliminate the nontariffs obstacles in mutual trade. | | | The Czech activities in the Central European Free Trade Agreement – CEFTA |
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| | Licensing, Fees and Taxes A proposal of a new food law that is expected to have a critical impact on all food import regulations was presented to Parliament before the June 1996 election. | | | Agricultural Minister Lux stated that the unification and reduction of tariffs on some items within the CEFTA countries will boost competition and improve the quality of products. | | | DOMESTIC FOOD PROCESSING SECTOR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- association was established to help the companies present their view to government bodies in the area of the Czech Republic future accession to the European Union relations with CEFTA countries and looking for export possibilities. |
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| | Macedonia's accession to CEFTA will contribute to creating larger free trade zone, intensifying of the regional cooperation, improving of the implementation of European standards in the country, leading it to the future EU membership. | | | Macedonia submitted Thursday its application for CEFTA membership to the Bulgarian Economy Minister and current holder of the CEFTA Presidency, Lidija Suleva.The Macedonian Minister of Economy, Stefco Jakimovski, signed the application, the Agency of Information reports. | | | By the application, Macedonia is affirming its intention to become full-fledged member of the Central European Free Trade Agreement, as it meets the necessary conditions or the standards of Poznan Declaration - full-fledged membership in the World Trade Organization, Agreement on Association with the European union and Free Trade Agreements with CEFTA member countries. |
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| | Cefta - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | The Role and Impact of Monetary Policy in CEFTA Countries. | | | The role of CEFTA in the process of EU enlargement: Papers presented at the international conference, Prague May 28-29, 1999 | | | Umowy o wolnym handlu ze Wspólnotami Europejskimi oraz z krajami EFTA [European Free Trade Association] i CEFTA [Central European Free Trade Association]... |
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| | Agreement Amending CEFTA, signed on September 11, 1995 in Brno (amendment of the Agreement by Article 39a concerning the provisions on the accession to the Agreement) | | | Additional Protocol No. 6 to CEFTA, signed on December 19, 1997 in Warsaw (liberalization of trade in agricultural products between Slovenia and other CEFTA Parties) | | | Additional Protocol No. 5 to CEFTA, signed on September 13, 1996 in Jasná (liberalization of trade in industrial products) |
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| | Xinhua News Agency: Macedonia applies for CEFTA membership.@ HighBeam Research |
| | Macedonia has submitted its application for the CEFTA membership to Lidija Suleva, Bulgarian Economy Minister and current president of the CEFTA, the MIA news agency reported Friday. | | | Macedonia intended to become full-fledged member of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), as it has signed the Free Trade Agreements with the CEFTA member countries, the official sources said. | | | Xinhua News Agency: Macedonia applies for CEFTA membership.@ HighBeam Research |
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| | CEFTA Helped Candidate Countries Join EU - Slovensko.com |
| | According to the Slovak Prime Minister, CEFTA's future after May 2004 when five its members join the EU is still up for discussion. | | | The decade-long existence of the Central European Free Trade Agreement - CEFTA group helped bilateral trade and healthy economic development of member countries, while accelerating their preparation for EU membership. | | | He noted that eight CEFTA countries fully liberalised their trade with industrial products, and achieved progress in the sensitive issue of agricultural products. |
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| | Speaking at the CEFTA summit in Brno, Czech Republic, Czech prime minister Vaclav Klaus said he and his counterparts in the group had also agreed to further liberalize trade among their countries, remove barriers to capital flows, and form joint ventures in their countries' service sectors. | | | A definite decision on the further expansion of CEFTA will come in August 1996, when the prime ministers meet again. | | | To become a member of CEFTA, a country must have an association agreement with the European Union (EU), a free trade agreement with every other CEFTA country, and be a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). |
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| | Global Beat: Look East, Face West |
| | Hungarian Prime Minister Orban said that all proposals at the meeting, except those submitted by Hungary and the Czech Republic, were incompatible with free trade, because they promoted more control and monitoring. | | | Orban said that such an initiative would lead to a shift from free trade cooperation toward more institutionalization and bureaucratization. | | | The rift among CEFTA member countries is deepening, driven by the differing political and economic orientations of these post-communist countries. |
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| | Meanwhile, Poland and Slovakia plan to complete talks with Ukraine on trade liberalization by late 1997, and Slovenia is ready to sign a free trade agreement with Kyiv in 1998. | | | KYIV - Prime Minister Valerii Pustovoitenko has agreed with the Central European Free Trade Association on a plan for Ukraine's entry into the organization, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Serhii Osyka told Interfax-Ukraine on September 14. | | | Pustovoitenko and CEFTA leaders, it was announced that Hungary and Ukraine would sign an agreement on trade liberalization in November. |
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| | The agreement is harmonized with the GATT and WTO agreements and calls for a reduction in customs duties and trade barriers for agricultural products. | | | The aims of the Agreement include ensuring fair trade between member countries, removing trade barriers and balanced expansion of world trade. | | | The Convention contains a number of provisions applicable to trade in agricultural products including import and export duties, tariff concessions negotiated with other countries, and the adoption of the WTO’s SPS measures. |
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| | Trade Liberalization Strategies: What Could South Eastern Europe Learn From CEFTA and BFTA? |
| | The paper argues that the SEECs should reconsider their bilateral approach to trade liberalization and move towards a multilateral free-trade area as exemplified by both the CEFTA and BFTA. | | | Receive emails when we post new items of interest to you. | | | Estimates from a gravity model and bilateral trade data support the view that both CEFTA and BFTA helped expand regional trade and limit the emergence of a "hub-and-spoke" relationship between the CEECs and the European Union (EU). |
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| | Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia, which will assume Cefta's rotating presidency next year, said Macedonia could fulfill the entry conditions once it was politically stable and other countries, including Yugoslavia, could also become members. | | | Member governments are also considering next year starting entry procedures for other south-east European states, including Macedonia and the state of Yugoslavia which is changing its name to Serbia and Montenegro. | | | No country is planning to leave Cefta on EU accession; instead, they want to serve as a trade and investment bridge between EU and non-EU states. |
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| | ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Hungary: Issues and Analysis |
| | Pressures on CEFTA continue, principally because overall policies are not harmonized and CEFTA members are at different stages of the reform process. | | | Most agricultural and food items are on List B. As exports to Russia fell in 1999, domestic prices dropped, and some CEFTA members became more protectionist in their trade relations with one another. | | | In any case, CEFTA will become a moot issue when Poland and other CEFTA countries join the EU. |
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| | 98 Annual Economic Mirror - 6/98 Slovenia - CEFTA: AGRICULTURE |
| | The potential problems of liberalisation will therefore have to be solved with other measures (compensation payments, regional and social policy and policy of over-employment) rather than with foreign trade policy measures as has been the case so far. | | | Unlike in the industrial sectors, these percentages are extremely low and speak either of a high level of self-sufficiency in Slovenian agricultural and food production and/or very high import protection of these two sectors. | | | Slovenia’s exports of agricultural and food products to the CEFTA countries is quite negligible (only 2.3% of total exports to CEFTA, see SEM 5/98:8). |
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http://www.sigov.si/zmar/arhiv/aletno98/iii/9_3aleo.html
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| | News from November 16 |
| | President Ion Iliescu is attending the opening of the debates of the Annual Conference of the Prime Ministers of the CEFTA - CENTRAL EUROPEAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT- Member Countries. | | | Opening Address of President Ion Iliescu at the Opening of the CEFTA Prime Ministers Debates | | | The President of Romania has said among other things the following:" The context in which this meeting is taking place is dominated in the economic plan by two serious concerns which are the conclusion of the DOHA ROUND of the World Trade Organization and secondly efforts for avoiding economic recession at a global level. |
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http://www.ici.ro/romania/en/stiri/arh2001/e_nov16.html
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| | Croatia is ready to contribute to the development of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) with its business experience and human resources and to play an important role in its market, Prime Minister Ivica Račan said at a CEFTA summit in Bucharest on November 16. | | | The other two prerequisites, membership in the World Trade Organiz ation and a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the Europ ean Union, have been met. | | | As regards the age and gender structure, most migrants with in Croatia were between 20 and 39 years of age (43.1%), and women accounted for 55% of migrants. |
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http://www.vlada.hr/bulletin/2001/nov-dec/econ-mirror-full.html
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