Development of trade relations between Serbia and Kosovo

Bachelor's thesis focuses on trade relations between Serbia and Kosovo, with emphasis on exports and imports of goods. Its goal is to assess the evolution of Serbia-Kosovo trade relations since 2008 and to map the trade crisis that lasted from the end of 2018 until the first half of 2020. The research question of the bachelor's thesis is how the tariffs imposed by the Kosovo authorities have affected the mutual trade of goods. The first chapter of the work characterizes and then compares the economies of Serbia and Kosovo using selected macroeconomic indicators. The second chapter provides a look at the context of relations between two entities, mutual barriers to trade or membership in multilateral agreements, and analyses the development of trade between 2008 and 2019. The work also includes a summary of events in the trade crisis which were triggered by the unilateral imposition of tariffs on goods originating in Serbia and a description of the effect of the imposed tariffs on the value and commodity structure of mutual trade.