3 minutes agoKurti established Reciprocity in 2020, Serbian goods increased in Kosovo: Here's what happened last year (Shifrat)
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Reciprocity was Prime Minister Albin Kurti's favourite word for Kosovo's economic reports with Serbia over the past two years. But this measure, which is the right of any sovereign state, has not yet been imposed by him, even though it has spent over 135 days in power. However, Kurt had put “Reciprocity” [...]
By 31 March 2020, Kosovo had the customs tariff regime known as “Taxa 100%” on goods imported from Serbia.
The move was put behind Kosovo's failure to be admitted to Isco at the end of 2018.
However, Kurti had vowed to impose an even tougher move on the Republic of Serbia: Reciprocity. He removed the tax on Serbian goods on April 1st 2020, during the time he was prime minister in office [removed just a week before that date] and imposed reciprocity.
Kurti would then leave the post, but Reciprocity worked for two months in Kosovo -- during April and during May 2020.
By April 2020, Serbia had exported goods to Kosovo, worth 15m and 173 thousand euros. That was a markedly higher figure compared to March 2020, at which time, the economy had been closed because of measures against the David-19 pandemic.
This amount of products imported from Serbia during the first month of Reciprocity had been 7.8 percent of total imports.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that Reciprocity had been in force, Serbia's exports to Kosovo had increased for more than 3 million. In May 2020, Kosovo would import goods from Serbia worth 18m and 341 thousand euros.
Again, Serbia's percentage of imports to Kosovo would remain 7.7 per cent.
As you can see on the billboards set up by AKS data, the percentage has decreased during the same months of 2021, even though there is no measure of reciprocity. /Periscope
