to Europe. At the same time, so-called overlap or similarity indices for trade patterns show an increasing similarity …

), trade resistance factors on the EU import side can be explained mainly by slow growth in Europe in the first half of the … nineties rather than by SMP-induced trade barriers. Concerning integration widening toward Central and Eastern Europe (CEE … of the Europe Agreements. As trade overlaps between Asian and CEE supply on EU markets are low, the trade diversion fear …