MIHAIL KOGĂLNICEANU’S CRITICISM OF THE CUSTOMS CONVENTION CONCLUDED WITH THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE
MIHAIL KOGĂLNICEANU’S CRITICISM OF THE CUSTOMS CONVENTION CONCLUDED WITH THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE

Summary/Abstract: The controversy regarding the Romanian foreign trade policy took place for a half century, from 1859 to 1814, between the supporters of free trade and those of economic protectionism. The customs convention concluded with the Austro-Hungary in 1875 was the expression of first ones doctrine and it marked Romanian commercial relations for more than twenty years. Contemporaneous with this act and also directly involved in preparation of Romanian foreign policy, Mihail Kogălniceanu countered the convention from his position of Minister, Member of Parliament and industrialist. Theoretical arguments and useful examples he proposed placed him between the maintainers of the real Romanian modernization

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