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Russias economy

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Russia Post Letter Volume 2, Issue 4 Jan 2014
Russias trading bloc involvement

The European Union is a complete economic intragration. In the EU, there is only one currency which is the Euro. The Euro is a strong currency, the countries all have trading agreement to be in the EU. Russia is relatively new to the EU, they have adjusted, and all the EU countries have the same EU passport so there is no visa needed when traveling to other countries. Unlike other countries, Russia is only in one trading bloc organization which is the European Union.
WTO you may think that Russia rules according to the WTO, but Russia is dumping steel which goes against the rules of the WTO. Russia is dumping steel, the overall outcome is that china and the WTO are anti dumping russia!s steel. China has imposed ".#$ of anti dumping duties on the steel. China was able to make more profit as well as Russia. %lso, Russia's policy of economic restructuring is protectionism. Russia will ban on imports of live animals from the EU and a recycling fee on imported vehicles. Their trade rules are outside of the WTO trade rules. Russia has many benefits from being in the &uropean 'nion. In Russia there is a growing middle class and an -k increase in car ownership and low fuel prices and Russia!s is developing in its e"onomy which are all leading measurements that will lead Russia to the car mar#et according to $oston %onsulting &roup. They predict that in '()* Russia will be the leading car producers they will raise the prices of the cars in order to ma"imi+e profit. The trading bloc is for investment. ,s Russia lowers their tariffs of energy they hope that the other countries will purchase more of their -.ords/ that Russia produces. The advantage of Russia being in the EU is that the other countries that are also in the trading bloc lead to an increase in demand as more countries 0oin The EU. The trading blocs population increase leads to organi+ations that invest .ord 1Russia car production2 Therefore Russia gains more costumers without traspasing the WTO rules. Russia!s measures are lowering the energy tariffs to the EU members. ,ccording to the 3ergey &la+yev said U#raine will save 4U35 billion 145.5 billion2 yearly on energy.

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