Publications (Filter: trade agreements)
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Time is Money: The Cost of Delaying the Ratification of the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement
Between 2021 and 2025, the EU sacrificed €183bn in exports and €291bn in gross domestic product due to its failure to ratify the EU-Mercosur...
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The Swiss Cheese of Trade Policy: The Case Against Product Exclusions in Trade Agreements
By: Fredrik ErixonThere have been calls to exclude certain products from trade agreements because they cause damages to public health or the environment. Lately,...
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Deepening NAFTA and Signing New Trade Agreements: A US Trade Strategy to Boost the Economy and Reduce the Trade Deficit
Tags: Canada Donald Trump economic growth economy Mexico NAFTA trade trade agreements trade policy USPresident Trump assumed office with one of the more purposeful trade agendas in modern history: he pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific...
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Manufacturing Discontent: The Rise to Power of Anti-TTIP Groups
By: Matthias BauerOld beliefs, new symbols, new faces. In 2013, a small group of German green and left- wing activists, professional campaign NGOs and...
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Mega-regional Trade Agreements: Implications for the African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries
By: Peter DraperIn the wake of the ninth WTO ministerial conference in Bali, in December 2013, there is renewed optimism that the WTO can deliver something. The time...
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A Trans-Pacific Partnership Worth its Weight in Gold – But What is Taking so Long?
A gold standard – nothing less. The expectations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership are high. TPP is central to the United States’ foreign policy...
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Can Europe Overcome its Conservatism? – Future of Europe from a Japanese Perspective
The agenda of the recent European Summit shows that the discussion is no longer dedicated entirely to the Euro crisis, and the efforts to stabilise...
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Openness in Public Procurement Markets: Time for a Reality Check
The European Parliament hearings on the Commission’s proposal for a “Regulation establishing rules on the access of third countries’ goods and...
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A EU-Taiwan Trade Accord from EU Member States Perspective: Rebalancing regional trade
Following an FTA with Korea, the EU now takes up the ambitious task of negotiating an FTA with Japan. Inarguably, ‘big’ FTAs are the way forward...
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Upholding Europe’s Mandate on Trade: The EU-Japan FTA
This paper concerns Europe’s ability to continue its trade strategy into large scale FTAs that are necessary to sustain EU industrial capacities....
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The Economics and Political Economy of Going beyond the GATS
This paper addresses the economic and political economy factors explaining why countries agree upon services commitments in regional trade agreements...
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ACTA – The Ethical Analysis of a Failure, and its Lessons
ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was originally meant to enforce and harmonise IPR provisions in existing trade agreements within a...