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	Central European Free Trade Agreement - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Image:CEFTA-members.png The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) is a trade agreement between Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and the Republic of Macedonia.
		CEFTA was established by Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia on 21 December, 1992 in KrakГіw, Poland.
		CEFTA may be preserved (or replaced by similar pact) by extending it to cover the rest of the Balkans states, that already have completed a matrix of bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs).
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/CEFTA (384 words)

	Central European Free Trade Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) is a trade agreement between Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and the Republic of Macedonia.
		CEFTA was established by Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia on 21 December 1992 in Kraków, Poland.
		CEFTA may be preserved (or replaced by similar pact) by extending it to cover the rest of the Balkans states, that already have completed a matrix of bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_European_Free_Trade_Agreement (366 words)

	European Free Trade Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was established on May 3, 1960 as an alternative for European states that were not allowed or did not wish to join the European Community (now the European Union).
		The EFTA Surveillance Authority performs the European Commission's role as "guardian of the treaties" for the EFTA countries, while the EFTA Court performs the European Court of Justice's role for those countries.
		However, during the negotiations for the EEA agreement, the European Court of Justice informed the Council of the European Union by way of letter that they considered that giving the EU institutions powers with respect to non-EU member states would be a violation of the treaties, and therefore the current arrangement was developed instead.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association (818 words)

	MEETING OF THE PRIME MINISTERS OF THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT MEMBER COUNTRIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I believe that the arrangements reached on trade liberalization between the countries are a basis for the improvement of the terms for competition, rational distribution of resources, reconstruction and further development of the traditional commercial relations under the new economic situation.
		The further liberalization of the trade of the country, the maintenance of a predictable and transparent foreign trade regime, as well as the creation of all necessary prerequisites for Bulgaria’s fuller integration in the European structures and the multilateral trade system are a priority in the national commercial policy.
		In July this year, a free trade agreement between the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Turkey was signed, which is to become effective as of the beginning of 1999.
	www.cefta.org /meetings/summits/1998/kostovspeech.htm (1486 words)

	Embassy of the Slovak Republic Commercial Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AGREEMENT ON ACCESSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA TO THE CEFTA
		AGREEMENT ON ACCESSION OF ROMANIA TO THE CEFTA
		In accordance with the respective provisions of the CEFTA Agreement the decision on establishment of the Subcommittee on Agricultural Trade was approved by the CEFTA Joint Committee at its ordinary session on 18 June 1999.
	www.slovakembassy-cd-london.co.uk /index/podstranka.php?id=7&idm=0 (2405 words)

	free trade on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The basic argument for free trade is based on the economic theory of comparative advantage: each region should concentrate on what it can produce most cheaply and efficiently and should exchange its products for those it is less able to produce economically.
		The results were new organizations and agreements on international trade such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1948), the Benelux Economic Union (1948), the European Economic Community (Common Market, 1957), the European Free Trade Association (1959), Mercosur (1991), and the World Trade Organization (1995).
		Chinese attitudes to trade agreements in the context of the proposed Australia-China free trade agreement.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/freetrad_internationalfreetrade.asp (1536 words)

	Warsaw Voice - A 'Dress Rehearsal' Trade Pact
		Central Europe's aspiring free-trade area is at last implementing free trade, with an eye on joining the EU later on.
		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.
		The agriculture agreement is not yet a done deal; Byrt said CEFTA countries are already planning further liberalization, all of it modeled after the EU.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/2305 (950 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.
		Hungarian diplomacy was a very active contributor to an agreement among CEFTA members, adopted in the closing statement of their summit in Bratislava on September 14, calling on all members to seek ways of loosening regulations that were inhibiting mutual trade.
		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)

	Information on Eastern Europe: Reconstruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The CEFTA resulted from the efforts of its members to join the EU, as a large proportion of their foreign trade is with EU member countries.
		The Visegrad Four is an unofficial name given to the four Central European post communist countries the Czech Republic, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Poland and the Slovak Republic.
		The Central European Initiative (CEI) aims at European integration and supports its member countries which are not yet EU members, in their approach to the EU.
	www.sost.hhs.nl /HEBO/dossier/Oosteuro/Oosteu3.htm (946 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		the implementation of the agreement on accession of the Republic of Croatia to the Central European Free Trade Agreement on March 1st, 2003;
		the signature of the agreement amending the Central European Free Trade Agreement to enable a CEFTA Party to withdraw from the association on the date of its accession to the EU and to assign to the Republic of Bulgaria the obligations of the depositary of this agreement;
		The European Commission stated, in its autumn economic forecast for EU states and accession countries, that Slovenia is expected to record economic growth of 2.1% in 2003 and 3.1% in 2004.
	www.sloveniatimes.com /11/bus.htm (1057 words)

	Trade scheme may aid Balkans stability
		SALZBURG, Austria, Sept. 16, 2002 - The seven countries of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (Cefta), the main vehicle for economic co-operation in central and eastern Europe, are considering expanding their activities in a way that could help build economic stability in the Balkans.
		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.
	www.invest-in-serbia.com /archive/2002_09/2002_09_17_1.htm (359 words)

	Czech Republic: TRADE REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS
		Standards The Czech Republic has begun accession negotiations with the European Union and as such is in the process of harmonizing its standards based on European and international norms.
		Free Trade Zones/Warehouses There are 11 free trade zones established in several cities throughout the Czech Republic.
		Membership in Free Trade Arrangements The Czech Republic is an associate member of the European Union and has recently begun accession negotiations for full membership, which is not expected before 2003.
	www.factbook.net /countryreports/cz/Cz_TradeRegs.htm (1190 words)

	main_rsi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CEFTA, a grouping that emerged in December 1992, brings together the EU accession candidates Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania… The Bratislava meeting discussed modifications to CEFTA's character subsequent to CEFTA members joining the European Union.
		The price of land in central and east Europe is much lower than in the EU, the cost of fuel and rent and payments in general are lower than in EU countries.
		At the CEFTA ministerial meeting in Bratislava in September 2002, officials of participating countries adopted a resolution in which they expressed their disagreement with the proposed volume of direct payments to farmers in new member countries.
	www.slovakradio.sk /rsi/ang/business/txt/2910_cefta.html (844 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Five Years of Freer Trade
		The two-day meeting of ministers from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania was connected with the fifth anniversary of the signing of the CEFTA agreement.
		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.
		The trade of agricultural products will have similar concessions in force in 1998 as in 1997, although preferential quotas for some agricultural goods will be fixed.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/3229 (856 words)

	Declaration of Prime Ministers of the CEFTA Countries
		The Prime Ministers reaffirmed the significant contribution of CEFTA to the strengthening of economic and trade relations among the Parties within the whole period of ten years of its implementation.
		the signature of the Agreement Amending the Central European Free Trade Agreement to enable a CEFTA Party to withdraw therefrom on the date of its accession to the EU and to assign to the Republic of Bulgaria the obligations of the Depositary of this Agreement;
		The Prime Ministers reconfirmed that CEFTA remains open for any country that is ready to meet the mutually accepted criteria, in particular the membership in the WTO and conclusion of the relevant Association Agreement with the EU.
	www.uvi.si /cefta2003/eng/summit/declaration (659 words)

	Slovenia Business Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Slovenia is currently presiding over the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food hosted a meeting of agriculture ministers from CEFTA members on Friday, 26 September.
		"CEFTA will go on after 2004 as well, regardless of the fact that the CEFTA area will be smaller," said Minister But, adding that the trade between the eight CEFTA members is going well, although there is plenty of potential left.
		Slovenia joined CEFTA on 1 January 1996 and is presiding over the organisation for the second time in 2003.
	www.gzs.si /ENG/news/sbw/head.asp?idc=14114 (237 words)

	Central European Free Trade Agreement - TheBestLinks.com - CEFTA, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, ...
		CEFTA, Central European Free Trade Agreement, Bulgaria, Czech Republic...
		CEFTA was established by Poland, Hungary and former Czechoslovakia on 21 December, 1992 in Krakow, Poland.
		All the participating countries had previously signed association agreements with the EU, so in fact CEFTA serves as a preparation for full European Union membership, and all CEFTA countries have applied to join the EU (Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia will join the EU in April, 2004).
	www.thebestlinks.com /CEFTA.html (229 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.
		It was again established that liberalisation in trade with CEFTA countries had no influence on the imports of those products from these countries which are preferred by the Slovene economy or consumers.
		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)

	Bulgaria - Trade Regulations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In March 1993, Bulgaria signed an Association Agreement with the European Union under which the EU and Bulgaria will eliminate tariffs asymmetrically over a 10-year period with the EU reducing tariffs at an accelerated rate.
		A free trade agreement between Bulgaria and Israel is expected to go into effect by the end of 2000.
		There are at present six operational "free zones" in Bulgaria: Ruse and Vidin ports on the Danube, Plovdiv, Svilengrad (near the Turkish border), Dragoman (near the Yugoslav border), and Burgas port on the Black Sea.
	www.factbook.ro /countryreports/bu/Bu_Traderegs.htm (3137 words)

	CERGE-EI: Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies
		The CEFTA agreement was signed in December 1992 by the governments of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
		Throughout Central and Eastern European cutting edge filmmaking emerged in the late 1950s as part of a larger political and cultural de-Stalinization process and in response to earlier modes of Communist film culture.
		Since 1989 the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been forced to devise an entirely new set of policies to deal with public and private sector workforce demand and social policies (e.g.
	www.cerge-ei.cz /abroad/courses/optional?print=yes (549 words)

	The Albert Sloman Library: Law directory - international trade law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		EFTA: European Free Trade Association is an international organisation comprising four states: The Republic of Iceland, The Principality of Liechtenstein, The Kingdom of Norway and the Swiss Confederation.
		NAFTA Secretariat - Responsible for the administration of the dispute settlement provisions of the Agreement.
		WTO: World Trade Organisation - provides news, documents such as legal texts of the WTO agreements; official documents from 1995 onwards; and selected documents for the period 1986-1994 (principally Uruguay Round documents and a small number of GATT documents); plus panel and appellate body dispute settlement reports.
	libwww.essex.ac.uk /LAW/trade.htm (753 words)

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		The signature of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) in December 1992 and "pushing" Brussels for laying down a concrete schedule of conditions to be met by the associated countries to join the European Union can be thought of as the hitherto crest of its activities, which suffered a strong four-year stagnation.
		Had the European Council not divided the associated countries into two or three moot groups, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland would not have been united even today by anybody on the standpoint that it is necessary to proceed together rather than in a single-handed manner.
		On the contrary, especially Poland, Czechia and Hungary had long not supported Slovakia's idea of enlarging the CEFTA to include other Central European states (the only exception was agreement in the event of Slovenia) or rapidly lifting direct tariff barriers to mutual trade.
	www.internet.sk /mediakurier/v4/e04.htm (1253 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)

	International Market Research - Czech Rep Country Commercial Guide FY 2003: Trade Regs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		European companies have sought on occasion to use the Czech Republic’s interest in EU membership to gain advantage in commercial competition.
		In addition, the Czech Republic has an association agreement with the European Union as part of its EU accession process, and has eliminated tariffs on nearly all industrial products under the agreement.
		There are 10 free trade zones established in several cities throughout the Czech Republic.
	strategis.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/en/gr109005e.html (1644 words)

	Ministry of Economy and Energy of the Republic of Bulgaria
		Agreement on Accession of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Central European Free Trade Agreement
		The Republic of Bulgaria shall accede to the Central European Free Trade Agreement.
		References to government procurement in Article 24 of the Central European Free Trade Agreement shall be understood, in relations between the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Bulgaria, as for public procurement and the period mentioned in paragraph 2 of Article 24 shall end by the end of 1999 at the latest.
	www.mi.government.bg /eng/trade/regional/docs.html?id=8282 (1009 words)

	The U.S. Should Support Free Trade with Central America and the Dominican Republic
		Free trade negotiations with five Central American countries were concluded on March 15, and the agreement was signed in May 2004.
		In return, the Dominican Republic and the Central American countries would gain permanent tariff-free access to the $10.9 trillion U.S. economy, which is more than 145 times the size of their combined economies.
		By liberalizing rules and regulations constraining trade and investment, free trade sets these countries on a course toward greater prosperity that supports the democratic and free market evolution that has taken place in Central America over the last 20 years.
	www.heritage.org /Research/LatinAmerica/em941.cfm (989 words)

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