What beyond oil and gas ? Russian trade specialisation in manufactures

Olga Garanina ()
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Olga Garanina: LEPII - Laboratoire d'Economie de la Production et de l'Intégration Internationale - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The objective of the paper is to study Russia's pattern of specialisation in the manufactures trade since 1998. Russia's global trade balance for manufactures is rapidly deteriorating. However, the trade pattern in manufactures should be differentiated according to Russia's main trading partners: the European Union (EU), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and China. On the basis of trade indicator analysis (revealed comparative advantages and Grubel-Lloyd index of intra-industry trade), we show that Russia is globally disadvantaged in the manufactures trade vis-à-vis the EU and China, and advantaged in the trade with the within the CIS. Russia is managing to expand its manufactured exports to other CIS countries. However, it is gradually losing its role of main supplier of capital goods in the post-Soviet space.

Keywords: international trade; trade specialisation; intra-industry trade; revealed comparative advantage; Russia; European Union; China; Commonwealth of Independant States; commerce international; produit manufacturé; commerce extérieur; échange commercial; exportation; Russie; Union Européenne; Chine; Communauté des Etats Indépendants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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Published in Post-Communist Economies, 2009, 21 (1), pp.1-29

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