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Abstract
A national policy of the Republic of Serbia bases on a membership in the
European Union (EU) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). In accordance with
it, Serbia gives up a self-sufficiency strategy for any product, which implies market
liberalization and free trade with other countries. Regarding that Serbia is aiming to
become a member of the EU and the WTO, agriculture should prepare for
competition on developed market, free from trade barriers. Current bilateral
agreements in free trade with neighbouring countries, Serbia has replaced in 2006
with one within the CEFTA (Central European Free Trade Agreement) agreement, by
which has entered the market of around 27 million inhabitants and has accepted a
responsibility to realize it, aiming to promote trade in this region. The stabilization
and Association Agreement (SAA) provides, in quantity sense, a new level to
preferential relations between Serbian agriculture exchange and the EU agriculture,
while it provides an asymmetry in Serbia's favour, after which the European Union
determines and continuous its duty free import of agro-food products from Serbia,
and Serbia gradually decreases its customs duties and other taxes, during the fiveyear-
lasting transitional period, for the most of these products.