We estimate that a hard Brexit would reduce UK agro industrial imports from the EU by 50%. The UK Government has proposed to substitute the Common Agricultural Policy with market-oriented policies. It has also expressed interest in signing free trade agreements with interested countries and is...

Aim/purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze regional trade integration of 10 Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEE-10) during the 2004-2018 period, identify regional- and country-level integration patterns and attribute them to potential causes indicated by the literature....

This paper analyses the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC's) with the euro area in the past ten years and draws implications for further integration. We use as benchmark an enhanced gravity model estimated for a large sample of bilateral trade flows...

This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...

Using detailed Chinese Customs data, this paper prepares a series of graphs to illustrate the changing patterns of the Chinese foreign trade during the years 1995 and 2004. Combined with discussions on related literature and policy development during the same period, the graphs are organized (1)...

The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals that while much has already been achieved in both these economies, the Chinese reforms, especially with respect to manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely...

A complicated global economic situation has a negative effect on development of the foreign economic sphere of the Russian Federation. Early in 2013, worsening of the trade balance of the Russian Federation was observed: with reduction of export supplies import has increased. The member-states...

Taiwan has indicated its interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. In this report, we evaluate the implications of Taiwan's accession for the United States to inform the negotiation process. We consider the sectoral export prospects for U.S. industry and provide estimates of...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the linkage between FDI and trade in the case of Vietnam. To investigate this issue, firstly, we attempt to find out the causality relationship between FDI and trade of Vietnam, including exports and imports. Secondly, we try to find out the determinants...

Early in 2015, a drop in the main indices of the Russian foreign trade amounted to the 2009 crisis level. The existing non-tariff barriers between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus highly complicate trade