Abstract
In this chapter, we focus on the EAEU’s foreign economic relations. We start with the EAEU’s emerging network of free trade and economic agreements, most of them still in the making (Vietnam, Singapore, Israel, Iran, etc.). The current state of cooperation with both the European Union and China follows. For China, after reviewing the state of trade and investment relations, we look at both the perspectives of the Belt and Road Initiative and at the EAEU-China draft agreement on economic cooperation. We also address the perspectives of new states joining the EAEU and EAEU member states’ ability to withdraw from the Union.
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Vinokurov, E. (2018). Eurasian Economic Union: Foreign Economic Relations. In: Introduction to the Eurasian Economic Union. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92825-8_5
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