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The International Services Agreement (ISA) – From the European Vantage Point
Services liberalisation has perhaps suffered from the deadlock of the WTO more than any other area of trade. As the discussions of a potential...
FTAs and the Crisis in the European Car Industry
The crisis-struck EU finds it increasingly difficult to engage in trade negotiations with large-sized economies that would have a meaningful impact...
Industrial Policy in Europe Since the Second World War: What Has Been Learnt?
Prompted by the revival of interest in industrial policy in several European countries, this paper considers what lessons can be learned from earlier...
FUTURE-PROOFING WORLD TRADE IN TECHNOLOGY: Turning the WTO IT Agreement (ITA) into the International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA)
Despite being an agreement designed for the fastest developing sectors, the signatories of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in the World...
Digital Authoritarianism: Human Rights, Geopolitics and Commerce
Online censorship is about to take centre stage in the campaign to improve conditions for human rights, cyber security and commercial freedom of...
Beyond Geopolitics – The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan
This paper discusses the economics and geopolitics of EU Taiwan commercial relations and weighs the case for a free trade agreement (FTA) between...
Protectionism Online: Internet Censorship and International Trade Law
Internet is a global market place. The rapid development of the Internet, and especially of Internet-based com- merce, has largely taken place...
Ten Years of Anti-dumping in the EU: Economic and Political Targeting
The use of anti-dumping in the EU is justified on the grounds of eliminating injurious dumping by foreign firms and establishing conditions of...
Trade in Information Technology Goods: Adapting the ITA to 21st Century Technological Change
In this new ECIPE Working Paper, Iana Dreyer and Brian Hindley analyse the ITA’s structure and development. The ITA has been a great success, but...
Le soutien à la production cinématographique française : à qui profite l’exception culturelle?
French cinema benefits from a massive public support: the aids verge on 38% of the unassisted value of the cinematographic production, and the...