Market potentials:
Free Trade
Areas		 Serbia is part of a Free Trade Area on the Balkan with app. 50m inhabitants, whereof 15% are of Serbian origin. Serbia also shares Free Trade Agreements with Romania, Bulgaria and the USA (signed in July 2005 ).

Serbia is the only country in the Region which maintains a Free Trade Agreement with Russia. The Business Park’s Harbor at the Danube River creates the basis for perfect logistics to and from Russia on the Danube waterway via the Black Sea.
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Serbia
Macroeconomic
data		 Serbia is a growing market, with an expected growth rate of over 5% in 2006 and 2007. Growth rates in Serbia are higher than in Central Eastern European Countries and far higher than in the EU - Euro Zone.
  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

GDP growth (real,in %)

5,6 5,3 6,9 5,7 3,1 1,7 

GDP per capital in EUR(real,in %) 

 2,792 3,144 3,899 4,547 4,093 4,138

Exports (in EUR mn) 

3,608 5,102 6,432 7,429 5,961 
Import  (in EUR mn) 8,439 10,463 13,507 16,478 11,505

5,017

(jan-aug)

Source: Economist Intelligence Unit
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