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Trade Policy in a Small Advanced Transition Economy: Trade Policy Review of Slovenia, 2002
Author(s) -
Damijan Jože P.,
Majcen Boris
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
world economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1467-9701
pISSN - 0378-5920
DOI - 10.1046/j.1467-9701.2003.00578.x
Subject(s) - accession , liberalization , context (archaeology) , negotiation , independence (probability theory) , international trade , economics , free trade , commercial policy , scope (computer science) , international economics , open economy , european union , political science , market economy , macroeconomics , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , computer science , law , biology , programming language , exchange rate
The aim of this paper is a commentary to the first Trade Policy Review (TPR) of Slovenia and to shed more light on the background of the whole process of trade liberalisation and transition in Slovenia during the 1990s. The TPR praises Slovenia for its sound trade regime, which is in conformity to Slovenia's commitments to the multilateral trading system and detects only a few open issues. The paper puts these issues in a broader context of Slovenia's trade liberalisation after independence in 1991 and recent harmonisation with the EU in the pre‐accession negotiation process. Although there is much scope for improvements in Slovenia's trade policies and practices, one should note that most of the open issues raised would disappear anyway upon Slovenia's accession to the EU by 1 May, 2004, and by subsequent adoption of the CET and full implementation of the acquis communautaire . Some of the problems, such as strong government support to agriculture implemented by Slovenia due to harmonisation with the EU's CAP should, however, be challenged at the broader multilateral level in the framework of the Doha Development Agenda.