Transition and integration in Europe : Trade Policies, Implementation of agreement between EU and Ukraine

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper tries to shed some light on possible outcomes of Ukraine’s future integration into European Union (EU), measured by EU Trade Policies. The study is carried to find out the main challenges and possible failures that can impact on trade performance of Ukraine.
The main objective of this study is to estimate further development of foreign trade of the country and ease of doing trade related business after integration into EU. The study specifically focuses on analyzing the effect of EU policies on foreign trade.
In order to find out the impact of such unification, current research tried to examine possible outcomes, by focusing on three main vectors, these are: “analyses of nowadays Ukraine’s trade performance”, “readiness of Ukraine’s current legislative acts to face such unification”, last but not least, “analyzing the practices of countries who have already joined EU with similar structure of the economy, using example of Bulgaria and Poland”.
The primary purpose of this conceptual study was to provide a review of relevant literature about the links between adopting the EU policies and trade performance by applying on the case of Ukraine. The assumed relationship between EU trade policies and trade performance improvement becomes the base of the study.
Secondary purpose of this study is to assist policymakers from the Government of Ukraine by providing them with conceptual road map for developing effective policies and tools in enhancing trade related activities and trade growth, through deep analyses of EU policies prior to integration into EU.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Chapter one: Introduction. 1
• 1.1Overview of Ukrainian Trade 2
• 1.1.1 Foreign Trade 2
• 1.1.2 Domestic Trade. 6
• 1.2Importance of EU policies for Ukraine. 10
• 1.3Methodology. 11
• 1.4Research question 11
• 1.5Structure of thesis 11
• Chapter two: Literature Review. 12
• Chapter three: EU Trade Policies 14
• 3.1 Overview. 14
• 3.2 Impact of EU membership. 14
• 3.2.1 Case of Poland 14
• 3.2.2 Case of Bulgaria 16
• 3.2.3 Case of Baltic Countries. 19
• 3.3 Common rules for export. 23
• 3.4 Common rules for import. 26
• 3.5 The procedure for administrating quantitative quotas. 29
• 3.6 Impact of the Association Agreement and FTA between Ukraine and the EU on the economy of Ukraine 33
• Chapter four: Legal regulation of foreign trade of Ukraine. 38
• 4.1 Principles of Ukrainian foreign economic activity. 38
• 4.2 Regulation of export and import 41
• 4.3 Labor market regulations. 45
• Chapter five: Conclusion. 50
• 5.1 Results 50
• 5.2 Proposals for trade policy directions of Ukraine. 53
• References. 56