Russia Moving Away from WTO Principles

December 22, 2015

Reaping the benefits of Russia’s World Trade Organization membership is becoming increasingly difficult as Russia continues to move away from the core WTO tenets of trade liberalization, transparency and rule of law in favor of inward-looking, import substitution economic policies. So says the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in its annual assessment of Russia’s compliance with its WTO commitments...

This has been excerpted from the 23 December 2015 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report.


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World Economy & Politics
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