Die Verfasser untersuchen die wirtschaftlichen Konsequenzen einer Zollunion von Volkswirtschaften in der Transformation am Beispiel der von Rußland, Weißrußland, Kasachstan und Kirgistan gebildeten Zollunion. Sie stellen zunächst das gegenwärtig die GUS-Staaten verknüpfende Handelsregime...

The Customs Union proposed for four members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)- the Free Trade Area established among the 12 members of the CIS- likely to lock those countries into the old technology of the former Soviet Union. The effects of such organizations will be especially...

The twelve members of the Commonwealth of Independent States established a Free Trade Area to help maintain trade among each other. More recently, Belarus, Kazakstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Russia agreed, in principle, to establish a Customs Union (CU). The paper concludes that the dynamic...