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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...
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...
A Transatlantic Divide?
The TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) tends to be...
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...
Germany and the G-8 Presidency
Germany’s G-8 Presidency occurs in a formative period for German foreign economic policy. It is about to step out of the post-Cold War order, but...
How Much Further Can the WTO Go? Developed Countries Issues
A lack of political leadership is often perceived as the main source of the repeated difficulties of the WTO. The paper argues that such a lack of...
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....
Are Developing Countries Deterred from Using the WTO Dispute Settlement System?
The data issued by the WTO Secretariat on disputes shows that ‘developing countries’ have participated in one-third of the cases 1995-2005. The...