Baltic, Nordic countries aligned for U.S. consumer-ready foods.

From: AgExporter | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: Tetro, Robert C. | Copyright information

Private sector entrepreneurs in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have moved aggressively to adjust from centrally planned to market-based economies. Reaching out to their neighbors in Sweden, Norway and Finland, they have bridged the Baltic Sea barrier, opening their ports for new trading opportunities.

This emerging partnership is reminiscent of the region's Hanseatic League, which dominated commercial trade activity in northern Europe in the Middle Ages. The new arrangements ...

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