external trade in goods and services between the EU and the BRICs. The paper starts with the analysis of the global position of … the EU and the BRICs in world trade (using the IMF DOT and UN COMTRADE databases) and moves subsequently to a more … detailed analysis of regional (individual EU countries' trade with the BRICs), commodity and industry-specific trade …

This report counter-poses the patterns of trade specialization and trade diversification of two groups of economies the … very strong specialization in trade with the EU (towards fuel, metals, and - for a sub-group of NIS economies - labour …, furthermore, a discussion of differences of trade structures with respect to EU markets, intra-NIS trade and trade with the Rest …

in unit labour costs. Despite this (and despite growth being weaker than expected in the euro zone), NMS foreign trade … continues to perform excellently. Foreign trade has been even more instrumental in generating GDP growth in the first quarter of … 2005 than in the past. It should be pointed out, however, that NMS trade with the 'old' EU has grown at a relatively slower …

growth in Ukraine has been spectacular, reflecting weak investment demand and the deterioration of foreign trade. By and …

output, construction, foreign trade and quarterly GDP figures confirm this development. The economic recovery in the 'old EU …, only Estonia and Lithuania currently meet all the Maastricht convergence criteria. A brief study of foreign trade data … reveals that in the Baltic States, foreign trade deficits are very high for goods even more so than for services. The NMS in …

outstanding feature of last year's economic developments was a boost in foreign trade (or of intra-EU dispatches and arrivals in … their aggregate trade balance slightly deteriorated (in fact foreign trade contributed positively to GDP growth in Poland … and 72% of imports represent intra-EU trade. Given the high (and rising) export surpluses of Russia and Ukraine - in both …

reviews the developments of inter-industry and intra-industry specialization of CEECs in international trade with the EU …