@techreport{Lucke1997Accession,
abstract = {This paper discusses the benefits as well as the adjustment problems resulting
from the proposed accession of the member countries of the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS) to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In the area
of trade-related policies, the CIS countries will have to make strategic decisions
on policy objectives that have so far been avoided. Necessary adjustments to
specific policy instruments will be limited and mostly technical in nature.
Similarly, current plans for regional integration among CIS countries are
fundamentally in compliance with WTO rules. However, negotiating strategies
should be carefully coordinated among CIS countries that are in a de facto,
though not necessarily a de jure customs union. Systemic transformation,
especially the imposition and further strengthening of financial discipline on
formerly socialist enterprises through privatization and elimination of subsidies,
will need to be carried forward vigorously. Benefits of WTO accession include
the consolidation of recent improvements in market access and, above all else,
greater credibility for market-oriented reform policies through the international
commitments to be entered into by CIS governments with respect to future
trade-related policies.},
address = {Kiel},
author = {Matthias L\"{u}cke},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {F02; 330; Au\ss{}enwirtschaftspolitik; Au\ss{}enhandelsliberalisierung; \"{U}bergangswirtschaft; WTO-Regeln; Handelsregionalismus; GUS-Staaten; Welt},
language = {eng},
number = {796},
publisher = {Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)},
title = {Accession of CIS countries to the World Trade Organisation},
type = {Kiel Working Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/941},
year = {1997}
}
