EU trade policy
- Should Africa be learning how to deal with the EPAs from the Caribbean?
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The Caribbean region is the only one in the ACP to have successfully completed an EPA with the EU. A chief Caribbean negotiator spoke about his experience and concludes that there are good and bad elements to the agreement but overall it is worth it. This blog reflects his talk, please read and comment.
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Placing South Africa's agricultural trade with China in perspective
- ( R. Sandrey;T. Fundira / Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa , 2008)
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A feature of world trade over the last ten years has been the dramatic growth of China's trade with the world. This paper examines the agricultural component of Chinese trade with South Afric...
- Analysis of the EPAs for Africa in 2008
- ( C. Stevens;M. Meyn;J. Kennon / European Centre for Development Policy Management , 2008)
- The start of 2008 marked the end of over 30 years of Lomé/Cotonou preferences, and yet most ACP countries did not lose their privileged access to European markets. This report, prepared by the ...
- Nigeria would benefit more from a FTA with the EU than from any likely Doha outcome
- ( R. Sandrey;H.G. Jensen;O. Oyewumi / Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa , 2007)
- Nigeria exports mainly fuels and mining products to the US and the EU. Nigerian exports have effectively duty-free access into both of these destinations while Nigerian tariffs are high by internation...
- Asia should consider European ways of integration
- ( R.J. Langhammer / Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft , 2007)
- The widening of East Asian regional integration has been driven by external aspects. Lessons Asia could learn from the European experience are however limited in their reach because:...
- ACP countries should refuse to be rushed into EPAs
- ( C. Delpeuch;G. Harp / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2007)
- The preferences granted by the European Union (EU) to the ACP countries in Cotonou are neither reciprocal nor extended to all developing countries and therefore not compliant with WTO legislation. As ...
- Central America's welfare gains depend on European openness to bananas and sugar
- ( H. Rojas-Romagosa;L. Rivera / Institute for International and Development Economics , 2007)
- While many agricultural products from Central America already enter duty-free into the European Union (EU) thanks to the GSP plus initiative, there remain two notable exceptions: bananas, a major Cent...
- ACP countries should limit preferential liberalisation towards the EU by opening up to other WTO members
- ( P.A. Messerlin;C. Delpeuch / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2007)
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The authors criticise the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently proposed by the EU to the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACPs). They point out that those EPAs will prove extre...
How to increase EU policy coherence across sectors
- ( E. Boonstra;R. Castermans;M. Elbers / EU Policy Coherence , 2007)
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European Union development cooperation is not enough to meet the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). Policies in other areas such as trade, agriculture and energy also have a profound impact on the...
- EU must reform trade arrangements to promote development in African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries
- ( C. Delpeuch / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2007)
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The European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries are entering the final negotiations over Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) that would liberalise bilateral trade ...
- The EU's Asian trade strategy needs revision away from all-encompassing FTAs
- ( R. Sally / European centre for international political economy , 2007)
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Due to the stalling of the WTO’s Doha round, the European Union pursues a new policy on free trade agreements (FTAs) centred on negotiations with three Asian partners. The author believes tha...
