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Russia’s foreign trade and the economic reforms

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The Russian Federation now faces a totally new beginning as regards the shaping of its foreign trade relations. The demands made upon its external economic policy by the changes in the political and economic systems on the one hand and the collapse of the formerly unified economic zone of the Soviet Union on the other are so great that, in many respects, consistent answers have yet to be found. To what extent has the Russian government so far succeeded in developing a new foreign trade regime?

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  13. Calculated from data given in Goskomstat Rossil: O razvitii ekonomiceskich reform v Rossiiskol Federacii v 1992 gody, Moscow 1993, p. 37.

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  15. Russia entered into such agreements during 1990 and 1991 with Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Additional contractual arrangements have also been concluded with eastern European partners by individual regions (St. Petersburg, Central Ural, Tyumen District, the Republic of Komi, Tatarstan).

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  18. Federal Foreign Irade Information Office (BfAl): Märkte der Welt, No. 38/92, 17.9.1992, p. 9.

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Werner, K. Russia’s foreign trade and the economic reforms. Intereconomics 28, 144–152 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928119

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