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Strong growth of trade between Germany and the reform countries of central and eastern Europe

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  1. The analysis focuses on trade with the CEFTA countries (Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia) and with Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus. Also incorporated into the study were the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and Bulgaria and Romania.

  2. See World Economic Trends, in: Economic Bulletin, vol. 35, no. 1, January 1998, p. 3ff.

  3. The whole of eastern Asia including China and Japan.

  4. It must be taken into account, however, that central Europe is developing far closer trading relations with western Europe than eastern Europe has done. The EU is to open negotiations on the accession of Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Estonia in the spring of 1998. Since 1992 imports by the central and east European countries from the EU (14) have expanded only slightly more slowly than those from Germany.

  5. Data to the month of September extrapolated for the year as a whole.

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  1. Herbert Lahmann
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Detailed foreign trade data for 1997 are available up to the month of September.

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Lahmann, H. Strong growth of trade between Germany and the reform countries of central and eastern Europe. Economic Bulletin 35, 17–24 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10160-998-0009-5

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