Scientific Journal SPATIAL ECONOMICS - Transport Complex of the Region under Russias Accession to the WTO: the Russian Far East

In the section	Surveys
Title of the article	Transport Complex of the Region under Russias Accession to the WTO: the Russian Far East
Pages	153-175
Author 1	Anna Borisovna Bardal Candidate Economics, Associate Professor, Section Head Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153 Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract	The author considers main obligations in the field of transport which were adopted by the WTO members. At that the researcher puts emphasis on the obligations of Russia. The study provides different indicators of the key types of transport under WTO rules at the national (Russia) and regional (Far East Federal District) levels. The author analyzes the following matters: 1) directions and volumes of flows of railway, sea and motor transport; 2) the unification process of railway freight rates and its impact on the functioning of transport complex; 3) the cargo structure; and 4) conditions of international motor transportation. The article shows that the state of the regional transport complex in 2013 corresponds to the prevailing trends and there is no basis for their changes. The author suggests that potential positive effects in the transport complex can be realized А.Б. Бардаль ПЭ № 1 2014 by transfer of the WTO legal mechanisms (de jure) into practice (de facto). This, in turn, implies that Russia has a clear development strategy of the transport complex and understands its positions in the international transportation system.
Code	338.47
DOI	10.14530/se.2014.1.153-175
Keywords	♦ transport complex ♦ infrastructure ♦ tariffs ♦ Russian Far East ♦ WTO
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For citation	Bardal A.B. Transport Complex of the Region under Russias Accession to the WTO: the Russian Far East. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2014, no. 1, pp. 153-175. DOI: 10.14530/se.2014.1.153-175. (In Russian).
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