DIVERSIFICATION OF EXPORT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND FOODSTUFFS: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES
Abstract
Penetration to foreign markets of any level of development involves overcoming of existing foreign trade barriers created primarily to protect the domestic market from unfair competition from exporters or to limit excessive import. Therefore, one of the most significant external factors having effect on the ability to achieve export potential is conditions for access to the importing countries’ markets. Within the study carried out, we systematized the conditions determining access to importing countries’ markets of Belarusian agricultural products and foodstuffs in two groups (tariff and non-tariff), identifying the main barriers: customs tariffs; rules of customs clearance; administrative formalities; quantitative import restrictions; barriers having effect on the price of imported goods; technical regulation measures; standardization and certification of products; financial nature measures. Based on the features revealed of imported products regulation peculiarities in foreign countries, as well as analysis of economic conditions for access of Belarusian agricultural products and foodstuffs to foreign markets, proposals have been made for diversification of export of agricultural products and foodstuffs of Belarus.
About the Authors
M. S. Bajgot
Eurasian economic commission
Belarus
Ph.D. (Economic), Assistant Professor. Eurasian economic commission
Belarus
Ph.D. (Economic), Assistant Professor. Eurasian economic commission
V. S. Akhramovich
The Institute of System Researches in Agro-Industrial Complex of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Belarus
Ph.D. (Economic)
Belarus
Ph.D. (Economic)
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