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The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Union as an actor in international trade
The Treaty of Lisbon will introduce a number of changes to European Union (EU) external trade policy decision making. These involve the scope of...
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Anti-dumping Investigation in the EU: How does it Work?
Anti-dumping rules are flexible and open to political bias. In the past ten years, EU investigating institutions have been biased towards the...
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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...
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The EC-Cariform Economic Partnership Agreement: Assessing the Outcome on Services and Investment
By Pierre Sauvé and Natasha Ward. Following the expiration in 2007 of a WTO waiver, the EC-CARIFORM Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) drew a...
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The Baltic Tiger – The Political Economy of Estonia’s Transition from Plan to Market
Few countries have reformed their economies as swiftly and decisively as Estonia in 1992-94. The economic reform program started during the...
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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...
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Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Health Check, Budget Review, Doha Round
This Policy Brief provides recommendations for agricultural policy reform in the EU. It argues, first, that all measures that distort market...
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Russian Commercial Policies and the European Union – Can Russia be Anchored in a Legal International Economic Order?
Can Russia be brought to abide by international commercial rules? In ECIPE’s new Working Paper, Iana Dreyer and Brian Hindley discuss the isolation...
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Redesigning the European Union’s Trade Policy Strategy Towards China
The European Union’s recent trade-policy strategy towards China is ineffective and shortsighted. It focuses on bilateral market access and...