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BARRIERS TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS OF THE EU NEW MEMBER STATES

The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between trade reform and export competitiveness for a set of selected EU new member states in the period from 2000 to 2016. In particular, the dataset included countries at different levels of development and that had their national currencies in most of the analysed period. Furthermore, the analysed period was very turbulent for the analysed countries considering that it included a period prior to the EU accession, as well as the economic and financial crisis. For that reason, the performed empirical analysis should contribute to a better understanding of the importance of fostering free trade and removing barriers to trade for promoting export competitiveness.

trade reform, exports, EU, new member states, freedom to trade internationally, export competitiveness

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