During the late 1980s, intensifying outward contact through traveling and telecommunications made people in Eastern European countries aware of the gap between living conditions in their countries and the neighboring West. In the wake of Gorbatchev's Glasnost and Perestroika movements in the...

The aim of the paper is to identify the trade barriers imposed by the Western Balkan countries. All barriers, whether tariff or non-tariff, undoubtedly impede the normal development of trade between countries. Therefore, the paper examines merchandise trade patterns in the Western Balkan region...