EU FTA EU (Korea's Trade Policy and Strategy Toward the EU after Korea-EU FTA)

An increasingly important aspect of EU trade policy since the lifting of its self-imposed moratorium on preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has been the inclusion of WTO+ provisions on subsidies in bilateral agreements negotiated with a number of third countries. This article covers the main bilateral PTAs negotiated after the publication of the Commission’s Communication on ‘Global Europe’ in order to explore the implications of the different subsidy disciplines they set out. It also discusses the questions that arise when examining the legal discipline of public aid provided by such agreements, regarding not only the substantive appropriateness of standards and rules on compatibility, but also the procedural mechanisms designed to guarantee the implementation and the enforcement of such rules. It concludes that the most advanced among the EU PTAs are shaped as competition regulation and go beyond a mere negative function, ensuring that subsidies can contribute to fundamental public goals.

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European Union’s International Trade Policy And Strategy

10.15405/epsbs.2019.01.02.47 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Janis Priede

Keyword(s):

International Trade ◽

Trade Policy ◽

International Trade Policy ◽

Policy And Strategy

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A Promoter of Values or a Shopkeepers’ Empire? Economy and Society in the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Trade Policy of the EU

Policy Design in the European Union ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-64849-1_4 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 67-86

Author(s):

Jari Aro ◽

Risto Heiskala

Keyword(s):

Trade Policy ◽

Europe 2020 ◽

Europe 2020 Strategy ◽

The Eu

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16. Trade Policy

Policy-Making in the European Union ◽

10.1093/hepl/9780198807605.003.0016 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 363-387

Author(s):

Alasdair R. Young

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Trade Policy ◽

European Integration ◽

The United States ◽

Bilateral Agreements ◽

Multilateral Negotiations ◽

The World ◽

Integration Project ◽

The Eu

This chapter introduces the importance of EU trade policy both to the European integration project and to the EU’s role in the world. It explains how different aspects of trade policy are made. The chapter also charts how the emphasis of EU trade policy has shifted from prioritizing multilateral negotiations to pursuing bilateral agreements. It considers how the EU has responded to the apparent politicization of trade policy within Europe and to the United States’ more protectionist and unilateral trade policy. It also considers Brexit EU trade policy and how trade policy complicated Brexit. It argues that there has been considerable continuity in EU trade policy despite these challenges.

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