Reference:
Dobrynin, N.M., Mitin, A.N..
Cui prodest: Russia in the WTO.
// Law and Politics. – 2012. – № 9.
– P. 1532-1540.
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Abstract: The President of Russia V.V. Putin signed the Federal Law on ratifi cation of the Protocol, by which Russia joins the Marrakesh
Agreement on the formation of the WTO of April 15, 1994. This protocol establishes the membership of the Russian Federation
in the WTO. Several days earlier the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation examined the constitutionality of this
protocol, as it was demanded by the opposition, which did not know what the Government agrees to during the lengthy
negotiations. The World Trade Organization (WTO) facilitates the ideas of liberalization of international trade, which in
the opinion of many foreign and Russian scientists, are much mifologized. Therefore, there is need for the state protectionism,
or so say the critics of the global free trade. For many developing states, which joined the WTO, it brought growth of
unemployment, the national companies were pressed by the transnational companies. The law of the WTO have priority
over the national legislation, and they provide for a specifi c way of development of the state economics, where the interests
of international capital are of greater value, than the interests of the people of the WTO member states. The WTO member
states understand that the requirements of the WTO coincide with the requirements for the credits of the WTB and IMF,
which closely cooperate with the WTO. Liberalization of international trade directly infl uences the agriculture, which is
export-oriented in the developed states. It, in turn, leads to the local markets being overfi lled with the subsidized products.
In order to provide for the competitiveness of the Russian goods the adaptation period of 2 to 7 years is provided, and the
support to the agriculture shall be up to 9 billion US dollars. How shall Russia manage to use it effi ciently? There are no
guarantees that the requirements of the WTO shall be fulfi lled by all of the participants of the agricultural production, and
many segments of agriculture shall simply vanish. The opponents of the WTO in Russia consider that the foreigners shall
have about 15% of the domestic market in addition to the 15%, which they have already. The supporters of the WTO also
have their own arguments. However the real balance of losses and gains, which Russia shall have after it enters the zone
of free trade shall depend solely on the professionalism of economical policy of the Russian government.
Keywords: jurisprudence, opponents, supporters, law of WTO, liberalization of international trade, state protectionism, WTO (World Trade Organization), WTO Member States, international law, investment, global infl uence of the WTO.
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