Albanian trade policy and the process of alignment with EU Common Commercial Policy

• Authors: Pranvera Kastrati , Esmeralda Shehaj

Abstracts

EN

Albania is a member of WTO from September 2000 and is currently in a deep and substantial transformation of the trade policy. Albanian trade regime is very liberal, open and transparent fully compliant with WTO law. Accession to EU is the strategic goal of all Governments after ’90s and alignment with EU acquis is at the core of any process. EU integration is an engine for the development in all candidate or potential candidate countries. This process requires the alignment of national policies and harmonization of the legislation. Trade policy is among the most developed policies in European Union and Albania. This is mainly due to the membership in World Trade Organization (WTO) and Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with the most important trading partners. The accession of Albania to EU will significantly affect the Albanian trade policy. This paper analyses the state of play of Albanian trade policy and presents the main developments in the EU Common Commercial Policy after the Lisbon Treaty (2009). Based on this analysis the paper highlights the implications for Albanian trade policy.

Keywords

EN

trade policy; alignment; commitments; accession obligations

• Publisher: Academicus. International Scientific Journal publishing house
• Journal: Academicus. International Scientific Journal
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 226-243

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Pranvera Kastrati

author

Esmeralda Shehaj

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

1036537