The structural reforms institutionalized after the debt crisis of early 1980, and the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), forced Mexican agricultural sector to compete with agricultural imports from the United States without any consideration to either the gap in...

The WTO has revised downward the forecast of growth in the global trade volume. In January–July 2013, the foreign trade turnover of the Russian Federation decreased due to a drop in export supplies. From October 2, 2013, Rosselkhoznadzor introduced temporary restrictions on supplies to Russia...

This study aims to identify the trade (export, import and trade balance) determinants of Nepal using extended gravity model and recommend specific trade policy to promote foreign trade. The gravity model of international trade takes notion from Newtonian physical science that the gravitational...

The effect of trade liberalisation on environmental conditions has yielded significant debate in the energy economics literature. Although research on the relationship between energy consumption, emissions and economic growth is not new in South Africa, no study specifically addresses the role...

From April 2012, the Russian foreign trade has been in stagnation. In the past few months, growth rates of both export and import fluctuated near the zero level. Russia turned down the EU’s request to the WTO to convene a panel of arbitrators to consider the issue of the existing mechanism of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conduct a comparative analysis of the various issues faced by firms involved in foreign trade in Brunei Darussalam and Singapore. It tries to delineate the issues or concerns in export and import trade that are significant, but of either same or...

This paper examines the economic promotion of a small country in the case of Slovenia, which is facing certain economic and social problems. One reason for this is the current financial and economic crisis, which is continuing to affect the country’s economy. Economic promotion is therefore...

This study uses newly available data in a quantitative examination of the relationship between Soviet special foreign trade earnings (SFEs) and changes in the money supply. During the Soviet era, SFEs were effectively taxes on imports and exports. They generated as much as 7–15% of state...