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7 - EU Trade Agreements and Non-Trade Policy Objectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

By
Alessandro Ferrari ,
Matteo Fiorini ,
Joseph Francois ,
Bernard Hoekman ,
Lisa Lechner ,
Miriam Manchin  and
Filippo Santi
Edited by
Miriam Manchin ,
Laura Puccio  and
Aydin B. Yildirim
Miriam Manchin
Affiliation:
Politecnico di Milano
Laura Puccio
Affiliation:
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Aydin B. Yildirim
Affiliation:
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
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Summary

The EU’s common commercial policy is used as an instrument to realize its values in EU trading partners, reflected in the inclusion of sustainable trade and development chapters in EU preferential trade agreements (PTAs). This chapter asks if including non-trade provisions (NTPs) in EU PTAs has a systematic positive effect on non-trade outcomes in partner countries. It analyzes the relationship between bilateral trade flows, the coverage of NTPs in EU PTAs and the performance of EU partner countries on several non-trade outcome variables using synthetic control methods. It finds no robust evidence of a causal effect of including NTPs in EU PTAs on indicators of non-trade outcomes.

Keywords

non-trade policy objectivesEU trade agreementstrade policynon-trade provisions
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Coherence of the European Union Trade Policy with Its Non-Trade Objectives
World Trade Forum
 , pp. 180 - 207
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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