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EPAs: Thinking outside the European box
Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, 2007The 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.DocumentThe Asian way of regional integration: are there lessons from Europe?
Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2007The 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:DocumentEconomic implications of an association agreement between the European Union and Central America
Institute for International and Development Economics, 2007While 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 Central American export, and sugar which is hardly exported to the EU due to subsidy and tariff restrictions.DocumentEPAs: a plan ‘A+’
Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, 2007The 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 extremely costly to the ACP economies. If EU products entered the ACP markets duty-free, they could be priced above world market prices. This would cause losses to ACP consumers and governments.DocumentDemystifying trade in services: a strategic guide for ACP EPA negotiators
South Centre, 2007African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are in the midst of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) negotiations with the European Union (EU). Trade in services is renowned as one of the most complicated areas of these negotiations. This fact sheet simplifies the legal principles and rules, as well as concepts that govern international and regional trade in services.DocumentSigning away the future: How trade and investment agreements between rich and poor countries undermine development
Oxfam, 2007This briefing paper argues that trade and investment are essential for development, and the imbalances that characterise and distort global trade and investment rules must be addressed as a matter of urgency.DocumentAssessing regional trade agreements with developing countries: shallow and deep integration, trade, productivity and economic performance
Eldis Document Store, 2006The central purpose of this project was to produce a framework or handbook for officials and their advisers in order to be able to assess the economic implications and desirability of specific regional trade agreements (RTAs).DocumentUnequal partners : How EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) could harm the development prospects of many of the world’s poorest countries
Oxfam, 2006This briefing paper focuses on the EU's efforts to forge Economic Trade Agreements with 75 of its former colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACP).DocumentThe TDCA, EPAs and Southern African regionalism
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004This paper looks at the potential problem that EPAs (Economic Partnership Agreements) may create a division in the Southern African region.DocumentSADC-EU Trade Relations in a Post Lomé World
Overseas Development Institute, 1999Guidelines prepared for the SADC Secretariat on options, opportunities and methods for negotiation of future trade agreements between the European Union and SADC.Summary (25 pages) available onlinePages