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	CEFTA. Who is CEFTA? What is CEFTA? Where is CEFTA? Definition of CEFTA. Meaning of CEFTA.
		The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) is a trade agreement between Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, and Bulgaria.
		CEFTA was established by Poland, Hungary and former Czechoslovakia on 21 December, 1992 in Krakow, Poland.
		Through CEFTA, participating countries hoped to mobilize efforts to integrate Western European institutions and through this, to join European political, economic, security and legal systems, thereby consolidating democracy and free-market economics.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/CEFTA (189 words)

	Overall Trade and Farm Exports Grow as CEFTA Marks 10th Anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CEFTA, the Central European Free Trade Agreement, is important to Hungary, and the government is working to expand the liberalisation of trade among its present seven members.
		CEFTA was founded in 1992 by four nations, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.
		The prime ministers of the CEFTA countries plan to meet again in the autumn of 2003, when Slovenia is president, to discuss the future in detail.
	home.btconnect.com /hungarytrade/itd2/cefta2.htm (823 words)

	Slovenia News
		Although the CEFTA partnership encompasses countries that find themselves at different stages of development, their common goals include the formation of a functioning market economy, the assurance of continued development, the promotion of welfare, as well as the protection of human rights and democracy.
		CEFTA members also assisted each other in the process of acceding to the European Union, even though this is not specified in the partnership agreement.
		The basic element of CEFTA is encouraging co-operation among the involved countries and developing mutual relations, particularly in the economic field, thereby opening doors to new opportunities in economic development of the member states.
	slonews.sta.si /index.php?id=1464 (1319 words)

	Central European Free Trade Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) is a trade agreement between Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia.
		CEFTA was established by Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia on 21 December 1992 in Kraków, Poland.
		Slovenia joined CEFTA in 1996, Romania in 1997, Bulgaria in 1998 and Croatia in 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CEFTA (164 words)

	RFE Trade
		CEFTA originated from a meeting in Visegrad on February 15, 1991 among the heads of state and government of Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
		In past years CEFTA has been pushed out of the limelight by the urgent drive of nations in the region to join the European Union as soon as possible.
		The question of Romania's CEFTA membership is sure to figure in the agenda of talks in Prague next week between Romanian President Emil Constantinescu and Czech leaders.
	www.buzzgirl.com /RFE/rfetrade.htm (558 words)

	Slovenia Business Week
		At the end of next year, CEFTA is expected to lose some of its signatories - which currently include Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania - because all countries that are integrated in the EU have to give up all free trade agreements that do not involve the EU.
		It is thus essential for the future development of trade relations between CEFTA members that a limited use of protection measures is assured, along with a positive development in the field of agricultural market liberalisation and openness of the regional framework to new members.
		The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) signatories will continue to make efforts to diminish the hurdles to free trade among the members, while the organisation remains open for newcomers, was written in a joint declaration signed upon the conclusion of the CEFTA summit.
	www.gzs.si /SBW/head.asp?idc=11365 (785 words)

	98 Annual Economic Mirror - 11/98 SLOVENIA—CEFTA: EFFICIENCY OF FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT
		It may be concluded that the size of absolute changes in mutual trade does not correspond to the size of absolute changes in import duties, which is why an assessment of inter-relation between the two variables was made by means of their rank correlation.
		Prior to 1989, CEFTA countries were relatively closed and there were no incentives necessary to boost mutual trade due to the clearing nature of trading.
		The correlation between the increase in domestic consumption and the rise in imports from CEFTA countries disappeared, except in the case of Slovakia.
	www.sigov.si /zmar/arhiv/aletno98/iii/7_3aleo.html (727 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Five Years of Freer Trade
		Members of CEFTA, which was set up in Cracow on Dec. 21, 1992, want a free-trade zone to be created between them by Jan. 1, 2001 at the latest.
		CEFTA is perceived by all its members as a "testing ground" for integration, considering that each member country's strategic aim is to join the European Union.
		In imports from Hungary, apart from reductions in duties applying to all CEFTA countries, the charge on 500 goods from the textile and steel industries will be reduced to 45 percent.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/3229 (856 words)

	NATO Colloquium 1997: Polish Trade with CEFTA Countries: In Search of Promising Sectors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The CEFTA Agreement on the creation of a free trade zone in Central Europe was signed on 21 December 1992 in Cracow and went into force on 1 March 1993.
		CEFTA countries under specific conditions can be considered as good investment markets because their economies were in the past based upon self-sufficiency, just as the defence sector was until recently in the West.
		Foreign affiliates in CEFTA countries are beginning to play an active role in reducing the region's trade deficit, even though they often are accused of doing the exact opposite (initially importing heavily from their home market before sourcing components from host country suppliers).
	www.nato.int /docu/colloq/1997/97-2-1.htm (4910 words)

	Slovenia News
		CEFTA is not an international organisation; it is an agreement which established an area of free trade among its signatories.
		The agreement to change the Central Free European Trade Agreement was signed at a session of the CEFTA joint committee on July 4this year, which amended Article 41 of CEFTA on validity and cancellation of the agreement with a provision on ceased validity in case of EU membership.
		Because of the relatively long cancellation deadline and because EU membership is a goal of all CEFTA signatories, the agreement was amended with a special provision on cancellation of membership in case of EU entry without preliminary official notification.
	slonews.sta.si /index.php?id=1465 (1142 words)

	Trade scheme may aid Balkans stability
		Cefta members are reassessing the pact's role in the light of the fact that four members - the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia - are hoping to join the EU in 2004.
		No country is planning to leave Cefta on EU accession; instead, they want to serve as a trade and investment bridge between EU and non-EU states.
		Candidate states hope to join the union in 2004 but fear their bids might be delayed by arguments over financial issues, including agricultural subsidies, and doubts about enlargement in some EU countries.
	www.invest-in-serbia.com /archive/2002_09/2002_09_17_1.htm (359 words)

	CENTRAL EUROPEAN DILEMMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CEFTA was intended to build the free trade region, and thus remove mutual barriers among the member states to trade in line with the provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) concerning transition period.
		Perhaps the main reason why CEFTA's countries cannot decide whether their club is for expanding their regional trade or entry into the European Union is that the members trade far more with the EU than they do with each other.
		Also, owing to CEFTA trade developments there has been consequent increase in efficiency in the region, each country has been more successful than in early 1990s in trying to find its industry in which it has comparative advantage and specialize in it - a technique that was foreign to the countries during the communist era.
	www.fatemi.com /CONFERENCES/lechmanova.html (7882 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Slovenia’s exports to CEFTA countries in 2002 increased by 15 percent, which is much higher than the 6 percent increase in total exports.
		The Prime Ministers reaffirmed the significant contribution of CEFTA to the strengthening of economic and trade relations among the Parties during the ten years that the association has existed.
		Of course, outside of CEFTA, bilateral agreements are being made, within the framework of the Stability Pact, between the countries of Southeast Europe.
	www.sloveniatimes.com /11/bus.htm (1057 words)

	Permanent Mission of Hungary to the United Nations
		CEFTA had four members from 1993, when Slovakia gained its independence, and was joined by Slovenia in January 1996 and by Romania at the start of this April.
		CEFTA countries do not want to isolate themselves from the World Trade Organisation (WTO), quite the contrary, they are settling their relations with one another precisely in order to prepare and win membership in WTO.
		As for the acceptance of new members, talks began last autumn with Romania, which fulfilled CEFTA's conditions related to the EU and WTO, and the membership draft was prepared in Ljubljana.
	www.un.int /hungary/970424k2.htm (795 words)

	Warsaw Voice - A 'Dress Rehearsal' Trade Pact
		The decisions from the Warsaw meeting concerning agriculture should be approved at the CEFTA summit Sept. 10-11 in Brno, the Czech Republic.
		Buchacz said that to join CEFTA a country has to have a regulated commercial relationship with the EU (either a commercial agreement or an association agreement) and be a member of the World Trade Organization.
		Polish politicians agree that CEFTA was not introduced to replace the defunct Comecon but to square trade accounts between Central European countries.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/2305 (950 words)

	Cefta - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Role and Impact of Monetary Policy in CEFTA Countries.
		The role of CEFTA in the process of EU enlargement: Papers presented at the international conference, Prague May 28-29, 1999
		Umowy o wolnym handlu ze Wspólnotami Europejskimi oraz z krajami EFTA [European Free Trade Association] i CEFTA [Central European Free Trade Association]...
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /cefta.htm (132 words)

	ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Hungary: Issues and Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CEFTA does not eliminate the use of export subsidies in intra-CEFTA trade, and Poland accused Hungary of subsidizing pork and poultry exports.
		Poland, invoking the so-called safeguard clause of the agreement, abolished most preferences granted to CEFTA countries, such that duties on pork were raised from 25 percent to 83.3 percent; duties on dairy products from 9 percent to 35 percent, and duties on poultry from 28 percent to 60 percent.
		Pressures on CEFTA continue, principally because overall policies are not harmonized and CEFTA members are at different stages of the reform process.
	www.ers.usda.gov /Briefing/hungary/issues_CEFTA.htm (284 words)

	Druckansicht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the year 2000 the CEFTA (5) countries can be expected to have to contribute ECU 6.5 billion; by the year 2010 the level of contributions will have increased to ECU 9.3 billion.
		Agricultural policy reform on these lines means that the fiscal costs of accession by the associated countries are substantially lower than in the status quo scenario, and, indeed, that in scenario C a reduction in the EU (15) agricultural policy budget is to be expected.
		For the CEFTA (5), accession costs of just over ECU 1 billion would be expected in the year 2005 or 2010 as a result of the agricultural policy reform (cf.
	www.diw.de /JSP-Tools/Druckansicht.jsp?poid=3062&navoid=3062&printContentUrl= (4962 words)

	[No title]
		Insert Table 1 The exceptional dynamics of growth of bilateral trade with CEFTA countries is also reflected in the calculated average annual growth rates during this period, which by far exceed average growth rates of total Slovenian trade and trade with the EU.
		Average growth rate of exports to all CEFTA countries is twice the growth rate of exports to the EU and triple the growth rate of total exports.
		Insert Table 2 As a result of rapidly increasing bilateral trade, CEFTA countries’ share in total Slovenian exports in the period 1992-1999 increased from 3.6% to 6.7%, and their share in total imports increased from 5% to 7.7%.
	www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be /licos/DP/DP2002/DP117Damijan.doc (7619 words)

	Hungary Advocates Further Development of CEFTA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1994 Hungarian food exports to the CEFTA markets came close to EUR 300m, and accounted for 28pc of total sales to that region.
		The Hungarian government realised that there would be no hope for multinational CEFTA agreements on duty concessions in the near future, therefore, it gave priority to bilateral talks.
		This is why Hungary insists on further development of CEFTA.
	home.btconnect.com /hungarytrade/itd2/cefta.htm (691 words)

	Global Beat: Look East, Face West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the CEFTA meeting, Hungary also made it clear that it would strongly oppose Slovakia's proposal to establish CEFTA's regional coordination office in the Slovak capital of Bratislava.
		Admission of former Soviet republics into CEFTA would also give Moscow a grip on the organization, placing CEFTA members as a bloc in the middle of an East-West political and economic tug of war.
		The rift among CEFTA member countries is deepening, driven by the differing political and economic orientations of these post-communist countries.
	www.nyu.edu /globalbeat/emu/GIU091598.html (878 words)

	NEWSBRIEFS (09/21/97)
		Ukraine's membership in the Central European Free Trade Association (CEFTA) was discussed at the annual meeting of leaders of CEFTA member-states in Postorozh, Slovenia, at which Mr.
		CEFTA's founders are Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Slovakia.
		Pustovoitenko and CEFTA leaders, it was announced that Hungary and Ukraine would sign an agreement on trade liberalization in November.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1997/389707.shtml (1082 words)

	Slovenia Business Week
		Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia were the founding members of the agreement on 1 March 1993, the aim of which was to boost trade between the signatory countries and create a free trade area by 2001 and prepare the signatories for EU accession.
		Slovenia applied for CEFTA membership after meeting all the formal criteria, such as membership in the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as well as signing bilateral agreements will the four original CEFTA signatory countries.
		The main issues, resulting from imbalance on the CEFTA market or the problematic balance of payments, which CEFTA has to deal with are related to trading of agricultural and food products and the introduction of safety measures.
	www.gzs.si /SBW/head.asp?idc=6324 (359 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The treaty only has to be ratified by the CEFTA member countries and Croatia, which will take some months, so that Croatia can be a CEFTA member in the first quarter of 2003.
		At the end of 1992, the CEFTA was founded by Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
		In September the CEFTA countries decided to intensify their economic cooperation and agreed on a long-term elimination of mutual trade barriers.
	www.weisslogistics.com /news_496.htm (296 words)

	News in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aside bilateral talks about free trade with all CEFTA members (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania), Croatia should also have an agreement on associate membership in the EU and be a member of the World Trade Organisation in order to become full member of CEFTA.
		The prime ministers of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) countries at a summit in Bratislava on Saturday expressed the wish that Croatia be admitted to this organisation by the end of the year.
		The prime ministers welcome the fact that negotiations on Croatia's admission to the CEFTA are almost over, and urge all participants to accelerate the preparation of all documents and invest every effort so that the agreement on Croatia's membership may be signed by year's end, read the summit's final declaration.
	www.hrt.hr /vijesti/arhiv/2002/09/15/ENG.html (867 words)

	abs237 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although in some important respects the CEFTA Document follows the structure of the Europe Agreements, all in all it is much less ambitious than those concerning the targets and means of cooperation with the European Union.
		With CEFTA in force and the beginning recovery from the transitional recession, intra-CEFTA trade was expanding quickly and by 1995/96 its share in total trade of the members approached or surpassed the immediate pre-transition level.
		Before the transition, under the protective umbrella of the CMEA, machinery and transport equipment was the most important commodity group in mutual trade of the later CEFTA members with a share of over 50%; its share in exports to the EU amounted to a mere 14%.
	www.wiiw.ac.at /abs237.html (340 words)

	SD: Institutions : Land markets and land prices in the Central European Free Trade Agreement countries
		Before the CEFTA countries initiated the transition to market oriented economies, most of the land was used by large collective units which had the right to use the land but were not necessarily the landowners (except for the cases of Poland and Slovenia).
		The general perception about land prices in all CEFTA countries is that they are low, as a result of the general economic transition process, the restructuration of the collective production units, and the government regulations in the land market.
		Slovenia is a special case among the CEFTA countries, it is a relatively small country with high levels of income.
	www.fao.org /waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/LTdirect/LTan0017.htm (3627 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The CEFTA agreement and its functionality can be considered as solid field training both for Romania and for other member states, to test their ability to evolve in a free trade framework; moreover, with sensitive products such as agrofood products.
		Keywords: competitiveness, CEFTA, competitive advantage Introduction CEFTA (Central European Free Trade Agreement) was established at the end of 1992 and came into operation in July 1994.
		CEFTA was considered from its very beginning as a temporary regional arrangement or “the major training field for CEEC-s”, on the way to full EU accession, but the main impediments to this idea were: very uneven development level among member countries and lack of policy harmonization (Table 1).
	www.abdn.ac.uk /arkleton/conf2000/papers/giurca1.doc (2314 words)

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