Moldova’s Trade Policy: Strategy, DCFTA and Customs Union

Moldova has two strategic trade offers and has to decide which offer to take. On the one hand there the offer to join the Customs Union between Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, and on the other the offer to enter into a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the European Union. While a number of good quantitative assessments of the economic consequences of both offers exist, there is little understanding on how they would affect Moldova’s economic policy goals. The objective of this report is to assess how these offers would help Moldova to achieve its strategic trade policy goals and its main economic policy goals.