One of the peculiarities of trade integration in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is that it was launched by non-WTO members. Nevertheless, their wish to integrate into the multilateral trading system induced them to incorporate WTO standards into their RTAs. Another distinctive...

Nevertheless, they kept up efforts to form various integration schemes, such as the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The Customs Union was basically the first successful case of economic integration among CIS countries. The formation of the trilateral union was completed by...