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The Rome Treaty at 50
In March, 2007, the Treaty of Rome celebrates its 50th anniversary. The chief lesson from this remarkable period of European cooperation is the...
Looking East: The European Union’s New Trade Negotiations in Asia
In late 2006, Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, announced a new EU policy on free trade agreements (FTAs). This is contained in the...
European Union Policy Towards Free Trade Agreements
The European Union has recently shifted to a trade policy that envisages a greater use of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). In particular the EU is...
Antidumping Policy in the EU
The European Union is currently reviewing its policy for trade defence instruments; instruments purported to defend European producers from unfair...
EU-Africa Trade Relations: The Political Economy of Economic Partnership Agreements
For the last five years the European Union has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific...
A Transatlantic Divide?
The TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) tends to be...
Trade Policy in Asia
Trade policy in Asia is dangerously unbalanced. It rests on a shaky leg of discriminatory bilateral and regional FTAs. Its other WTO leg has gone...
Assessing the EC Trade Policy in Goods
The recent shift in European trade policy to negotiate bilateral agreements with no less than 24 countries is taking Europe into dangerous waters....
FTAs and the Prospects for Regional Integration in Asia
Trade policy in Asia has switched from non-discriminatory unilateral liberalisation, reinforced by GATT/WTO commitments, to discriminatory FTAs....