Ukraine’s WTO Accession

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Lars Handrich

      Pages 1-6

3. Accession to the WTO: Ukraine’s Political Commitment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Ukraine’s Commitment to Become Member of the WTO

      • Mykola Azarov

      Pages 9-12

   3. Towards Membership in the World Trade Organization

      • Hector A. Millan

      Pages 13-17

   4. Ukraine and the WTO: Possible Membership Implications

      • Valeriy Khoroshkovsky

      Pages 19-22

   5. The Benefit of Joining WTO

      • Roger Lawrence

      Pages 23-25

   6. The Legislative Process and WTO Accession

      • Borys Tarasyuk

      Pages 27-29

   7. The Importance of WTO Consistent Policies

      • Yuriy Yekhanurov

      Pages 31-34

   8. Ukraine and the WTO — the Current State of Bilateral Negotiations and Potential Membership Implications

      • Andriy Honcharuk

      Pages 35-44

   9. Accession of Ukraine to the WTO: New Challenges for Economic Reforms

      • Ihor Burakovsky

      Pages 45-56

4. Assessing Implications of WTO Membership

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. WTO Accession and Related Trade Strategies: Lessons for Ukraine

      • Klaus Günter Deutsch

      Pages 59-70

   3. Quantitative Analysis of Implications of Russia’s Accession to the WTO

      • Victor Ivanter, Marat Uziakov, Aleksandr Shyrov, Vadim Kapitsyn, Aleksei Khersonskiy, Olga Gerasimenko et al.

      Pages 71-83

   4. Implementation of WTO Regulatory Rules in Ukraine: Challenges and Opportunities

      • Philip Schuler

      Pages 85-102

   5. Effects of WTO Accession on Policy-making in Sovereign States: Preliminary Lessons from the Recent Experience of Transition Countries

      • Marc Bacchetta, Zdenek Drabek

      Pages 103-148

5. WTO Membership and Implications for Competion Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Trade and Competition in the WTO: New Issues for Ukraine

      • Peter Holmes

      Pages 151-158

   3. The Problem of Subsidisation of the Industrial Sector through the Energy Sector: Lessons for Ukraine from the Russian and Romanian Case

      • Rudiger Ahrend

      Pages 159-165

   4. Will WTO Membership Really Improve Market Access for Ukrainian Exports?

      • Igor Eremenko, Nadiya Mankovska, James W. Dean

      Pages 167-188

Lars Handrich German Advisory Group on Economic Reforms with the Ukrainian Government 1 Ukraine on the way to WTO membership The first announcements by Ukraine to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) were made in 1993. In the following year the Working group on Ukraine's accession was established. But successive Ukrainian governments had to sideline the issue of WTO accession, as the country went through a decade of unprecedented and severe economic decline. Only in the year 2000 the Ukrainian economy started to achieve positive real economic growth. Since then Ukraine embarked on a stable path of economic growth and continues to grow even under conditions ofa sluggish world economy and protectionist reflexes in some ofUkraine's export markets. According to the macroeconomic forecast of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting Ukrainian GDP will grow by 5,4% in 2003 in real terms and by 5,I% 1 in 2004. For Ukraine WTO accession is of special importance. Ukraine records an extremely high exports-to-GDP ratio of over 60% - almost twice the ratio for Germany.' The large ratio and the little diversified structure ofUkraine's imports and exports make Ukraine seriously vulnerable to external shocks resulting from changes in trade regimes. Joining the WTO, trade among WTO members amounting to more then 90% of world trade, could reduce the risks related to external trade and Ukraine could derive substantial economic and hence welfare benefits from the membership in WTO.

• Agricultural Policies
• Economics in Transition
• Export
• Import
• Trade Liberalisation
• Transition Countries
• Ukraine
• WTO
• World Trade Organization
• competition
• competition policy
• economic policy
• trade policy
• transition

• Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, Kyiv, Ukraine

  Ihor Burakovsky

• DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Lars Handrich

• Institute for Eastern European Studies, Munich, Germany

  Lutz Hoffmann

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