Trade comparative analysis: Republic of Moldova and other relevant countries

The paper plans to analyze the evolution and structure of trade of the Republic of Moldova between 2005 and 2015, its weight correlated with that of other important trade partners and its potential for development. In the first part we will make a comparative analysis between the overall exports and imports of Moldova towards the EU and CIS, also from a perspective of evolution and structure. We want to see the main categories of products that are exported from Moldova and also the main products that are imported and how this trade changed according to the legislation. We shall also develop an index of dependency of Moldova towards these economic zones and its evolution. In the second part we shall focus on the structure and evolution of trade of Moldova with The Russian Federation and Ukraine in order to analyze their weight but also the degree of economic cooperation between the countries. We are also interested to see which are the most important categories of products, that are traded between these countries and how were they affected by the relation of Moldova with the EU. In the third part we will analyze the overall trade of Moldova with Romania, measuring the evolution of the weight of Romanian exports and imports from and towards Moldova and the changes in their structure. An objective will be to set a theoretical optimum level of development in order to set a level of trade which could support a strong and sustainable economic development between the two countries.