The article aims to point out, if the European Union realizes liberal type of trade policy or if there is rather the tendency to introduce protectionist measures in trade with third countries recently. In the first part of the article, the focus is the characterization of trade policy in...

The competitive ability of the processing industry in the SR occurs most often in classical types of production characterised by lower level of added value. Commodities with a low added value participate in worsening the balance of trade of the SR. The high export demand of industrial production...