@article{Cabuleva_Miteva Kacarski_Radosavljevik Bojceva_2020, title={WESTERN BALKANS TARIFF SYSTEMS ON NONAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS}, volume={5}, url={https://js.ugd.edu.mk/index.php/YFE/article/view/3812}, abstractNote={<p>The multilateral trade regime remains very attractive to existing and<br>prospective members. The WTO provides a set of rules, safeguards, and<br>various mechanisms for the conduct of international trade in goods and<br>services. It is even more useful for small countries, for which multilateral,<br>rule-bound negotiations would be much preferable to bilateral negotiations in<br>which bigger countries would have the upper hand.<br>One of the most important principles of the WTO is non-discrimination<br>principle, and those principles include: the principle of most-favored nation<br>(MFN principle) and principle of national treatment. These principles are also<br>the core principles of the multilateral system in all agreements within the WTO.<br>“MFN” treatment requires Members to accord the most favorable tariff<br>and regulatory treatment given to the product of any one Member at the time<br>of import or export of “like products” of all other Members, is one of the<br>bedrock principles of the WTO. Under the Most-Favored-Nation rule, should<br>WTO Member state A agree in negotiations with state B, which needs not be<br>a WTO Member, to reduce the tariff on the same product X to five percent,<br>this same “tariff rate” must also apply to all other WTO Members as well. In<br>other words, if a country gives favorable treatment to one country regarding a<br>particular issue, it must handle all Members equally regarding the same issue.<br>The main aim of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of the tariff<br>systems for nonagricultural goods in the countries of Western Balkan (with the<br>exception of Kosovo) and EU, which influence on trade.</p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={Yearbook - Faculty of Economics}, author={Cabuleva, Kostadinka and Miteva Kacarski, Emilija and Radosavljevik Bojceva, Marina}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={71-82} }