The EU Response to US Trade Tariffs

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

On the Incidence of US Tariffs

MUCH attention has been devoted to the study of the structure of tariffs in industrial nations and its impacts on the level and composition of their imports from developing countries. Studies have identified two sources of bias against imports from developing countries inherent in tariff structures of industrial nations. First, tariffs used by industrial nations have been found to bear more hea...

Analyzing China Harmonization of Technical Barriers to Trade in the EU and US Markets

As the course of economy globalization and trade liberalization have been speeding up, the protective in the international trade have changed greatly. Especially in the recent years, it is widely recognized that technical barriers to trade create numerous obstacles to the international exchange of primary and processed products in The EU and US markets. This article proposes the definition and ...

EU External Trade Policy

The external trade policy of the EU impinges on nearly one fifth of world trade. Hence, an understanding of the principles and practice of the Union's trade policy, the Common Commercial Policy (CCP), is of vital importance to any student of the global trade environment. Ongoing research on the CCP has addressed both broad themes and detailed aspects of the Union's trade policy provides insight...

Including non-trade concerns: the environment in EU and US agricultural policy

The challenge for any trade agreement is to be adaptable enough to enable countries to address legitimate non-trade concerns (NTC) while being restrictive enough to limit harm to other countries and to assist the creation of free international markets. In this paper, we focus on how environmental NTC have been addressed in agricultural policy in the USA and the European Union (EU) and the resul...