| Tekijä: | Feldmann, M. Sally, R. |
| Otsikko: | From the Soviet Union to the European Union: Estonian Trade Policy, 1991-2000 |
| Lehti: | World Economy
2002 : JAN, VOL. 25:1, p. 79-106 |
| Asiasana: | EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ESTONIA TRADE POLICY ANALYTICAL REVIEW |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The authors' focus is the political economy of Estonian trade policy reforms. Given broadly similar initial conditions at the outset of transition in the ex-Soviet Union, the authors answer why only Estonia did abolish protection wholesale. In the second phase of transition, Estonia is inexorably pulling away from unilateral free trade and towards the tariff and non-tariff protection of the EU's Common Commercial Policy. The authors' emphasis is on the trade policy-related aspects of Estonia's quest for EU membership, and the authors try to assess to what extent EU accession is undermining Estonia's liberal trade policies of the 1990s. The authors address these questions through the political economy looking glass of circumstances, interests, ideas and institutions. |
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