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Every year before the New Year Kyiv is entering WTO – which is an Internet joke. This Tuesday, for example, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine have made 6 stepe towards the World Trade Organization . In the meantime while the parliament is feverishly adopting laws, business is stockstill pending, and experts are “putting fear in hearts”: they promise crisis in economy, enumerate branches which won’t be able to survive, forecast the level of unemployment.
Economist Leonid Rubanenko – is totally against entering WTO. He says, it is a natural selection and it is useless to protect unviable business . Rubanenko includes agriculture, machine building, production of alcohol, beer and medicine into the group of risk in Kharkiv production sector. He also said the only one to take the advantage is the consumer who will only win from the competition.
Leonid Rubanenko, honoured economist of Ukraine, “What should we be afraid of – that an well managing owner is coming to our fields? Today this owner is penetrating here through giving us tractors and processing equipment… So, why, do we have not to let this advanced equipment to our fields, and not to create new work places?”
Dmytro Svyatash, people’s deputy of Ukraine, “The advantage of entering WTO is the entrance in the scope of the procedures provided by WTO of Ukrainian manufacturers to financial markets. The disadvantage is creation of a market for the rest of the world which gives the opportunity of attracting goods competitive to Ukrainians”.
Hungarian economist Tamash Berki consider that Ukraine is too pessimistic-minded towards WTO. In Hungary, for instance, they didn’t work out without loss, but on the whole the experience is quite positive.
Industrialist Anatoliy Hirshfeld, president of UPEC (Industrial Energy Company of Ukraine) considers, that it is late to discuss whether it is good or bad to enter WTO. This is the fact and that is why business has to do its’ best to be prepared to severe competition. Hirshfeld not that is completely calm for his company but is sure that UPEC has done its best.
Ex-governor of Kharkiv region Yevheniy Kushnaryev also paints entering WTO with quite dull colours. Only he is comparing Ukraine to a boxer-newcomer to champion Klychko.
Ukraine is preparing to fierce and, perhaps, one-sided fight, but it is not going “to give up without fighting”.
// 17.11.2006 11:32
News URL: http://news.mediaport.info/eng/economics/2006/2728.shtml
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