Social Standards In Eu And Us Trade Agreements

Author : Evgeny Postnikov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351627368

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Social Standards in EU and US Trade Agreements by Evgeny Postnikov Pdf

This book examines the causes and consequences of social standards in US and EU preferential trade agreements (PTAs). PTAs are the new reality of the global trading system. Pursued by both developed and developing countries, they increasingly incorporate labor and environmental issues to prevent a race to the bottom in social regulation and counter-protectionism. Using principal-agent theory to explore why US PTAs have stricter social standards than those signed by the EU, Postnikov argues that the level of institutional insulation of trade policy executives from interest groups and legislators determines the design of social standards. In the EU, where institutional insulation is high, social standards mirror the normative preferences of the European Commission leading to a softer approach. In the US, where such insulation is low, social standards are driven by interest groups and legislators they control, resulting in a stricter approach. This book shows that both approaches can be effective but work through different causal mechanisms. To test his argument, Postnikov draws on original data collected in Brussels, Washington, Santiago, Bogota, and Seoul. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students working in the fields of international political economy and EU and US trade policy.

Author : Johan Adriaensen,Evgeny Postnikov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030812812

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A Geo-Economic Turn in Trade Policy? by Johan Adriaensen,Evgeny Postnikov Pdf

Contemporary trade policy is increasingly framed in geo-strategic terms. But how much of that rhetoric is reflected in actual policy choices by the EU or its trading partners? This book provides a first systematic study of the broader international context in which EU trade agreements are conceived, negotiated, and designed. Building on a refined conceptualisation of geo-economics, the book develops a cogent framework that combines insights from scholarship on the design of free trade agreements with ideas from foreign policy analysis. Empirically, the analysis focuses on the relations between the EU and the Asia-Pacific. Following the United States’ pivot to Asia and the EU’s Global Europe strategy, China’s backyard has become the main arena in which global powers’ geo-economic strategies overlap. Building on a series of case-studies, combining the perspectives from the EU and its trading partners, the book shows that the rhetoric of geo-economic competition is yet to catch up with the actual negotiation and design of free trade agreements. This volume will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners who want to gain a holistic understanding of contemporary trade negotiations.

Author : Tobias Leeg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 3848747235

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When Do Paper Tigers Get Teeth? by Tobias Leeg Pdf

Both US and EU Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) nowadays consistently contain social standards to protect workers and the environment. But while the US pursues a sanction-based approach, the EU solely relies on dialogue and cooperation mechanisms. This book attempts to explain what has led the US and the EU to pursue such diverging approaches. In a structured comparison, this study analyses the US' and the EU's PTA negotiations with Central America, Peru and Colombia, and South Korea. Empirical findings suggest that the constellation of societal preferences was fairly similar in the US and Europe. However, the different institutional frameworks in the US and the EU translated these societal demands into different policy outcomes. In short, the features of the US' domes-tic political processes were much more favourable to the formation of sanction-based social standards than the consensus-oriented style of policymaking in the EU.

Author : Francesco Duina,Crina Viju-Miljusevic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197681893

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Standardizing the World by Francesco Duina,Crina Viju-Miljusevic Pdf

The EU has pursued many trade pacts across the world. This is part of its foreign policy: as the third largest economy in the world and lacking hard power, the EU relies on trade agreements to project its interests. These are often complex and far-reaching initiatives that have the potential to shape not only economic but also political and social life in the EU and its trading partners. In Standardizing the World, Francesco Duina and Crina Viju-Miljusevic have gathered a group of leading experts to present an unprecedented assessment of the EU's efforts to standardize a wide array of economic, political, and social aspects of life through its trade agreements across the globe. Drawing on economic sociology and constructivist strands in international political economy, the volume examines what is being standardized, the extent to which the EU has been able to project its worldviews, and what explains the observable patterns of standardization across policy areas and geographies. Ten leading scholars from across the world offer as many chapters on EU agreements with all major trading partners and cover efforts in social and labor rights, the environment, investments, rule of law and anti-corruption, agriculture and food quality, services, public procurement, sustainable development, and more. Their findings paint a picture of a dynamic EU capable of projecting its worldviews across the globe that is nonetheless not always consistent or successful. Standardizing the World provides a wide-ranging and rigorous understanding of standardization in trade agreement as well as the EU's abilities to project its power and worldviews across the globe.

Author : Robert G. Finbow
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780228012757

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CETA Implementation and Implications by Robert G. Finbow Pdf

The Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is hailed as the gold standard for trade agreements. It addresses tariffs on traded goods, favoured status for EU and Canadian exporters, trade in services, and technical barriers to trade, while also seeking coordination between government agencies to promote regulatory cooperation, harmonization, and mutual recognition of standards. As the world retreats towards populism and protectionism, CETA Implementation and Implications provides a vital examination of this contemporary economic collaboration between developed states, which serves as a model for other progressive regional trade agreements. This book offers the first in-depth, comprehensive assessment of CETA, covering many of its most important elements and exploring its obstacles, accomplishments, and early effects. Based on the European Commission-funded Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Project on CETA Implementation and Implications, which linked scholars and stakeholders across Europe and North America to analyze and evaluate the implementation and impacts of the agreement, this book covers regulation, procurement, the environment, the innovative investment disputes system, labour mobility and labour relations, bilateral governance instruments, and the implications for EU trade policy of CETA’s contested ratification. Uniquely interdisciplinary and featuring contributors from around the world, CETA Implementation and Implications provides a nuanced and balanced assessment of this landmark trade agreement and its effects on regional and global trade in turbulent times.

Author : Thomas Greven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Employee rights
ISBN : 3898923495

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Social Standards in Bilateral and Regional Trade and Investment Agreements by Thomas Greven Pdf

Author : Pascal Fontaine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9279715623

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Europe in 12 Lessons by Pascal Fontaine Pdf

What purpose does the EU serve? Why and how was it set up? How does it work? What has it already achieved for its citizens, and what new challenges does it face today? In a globalised world, can the EU compete successfully with other major economies while maintaining its social standards? How can immigration be managed? What will Europe’s role be on the world stage in the years ahead? Where will the EU’s boundaries be drawn? And what future is there for the euro? These are just some of the questions explored by EU expert Pascal Fontaine in this 2017 edition of his popular booklet Europe in 12 lessons. Pascal Fontaine is a former assistant to Jean Monnet and former professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris.

Author : Wolfgang Weiß,Cornelia Furculita
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030345884

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Global Politics and EU Trade Policy by Wolfgang Weiß,Cornelia Furculita Pdf

This book explores how the European Union designs its trade policy to face the most recent challenges and to influence global policy issues. It provides with an interdisciplinary perspective, by combining legal, political, and economic approaches. It studies a broad set of trade instruments that are used by the EU in its trade policy, such as: trade agreements, multilateral initiatives, unilateral trade policies, as well as, internal market tools. Therefore, the contributions to this volume present the EU’s Trade Policy through different lenses providing a complex view of it.

Author : Maryna Rabinovych
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000374797

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EU Regional Trade Agreements by Maryna Rabinovych Pdf

This book unveils the potential of utilizing EU Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) as an instrument of promoting the rule of law to third states. In doing so, the book combines development economics, foreign policy and legal perspectives at three levels of analysis of four sectors to introduce the concept of "EU value-promoting RTAs". The book demonstrates that the EU RTAs bear considerable potential to be strategized as instruments of promoting the rule of law in third states, requiring, however, overcoming strict divides between EU political and economic cooperation, and values and acquis conditionality in its relations with third countries. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Studies, European Union Law, EU external action/foreign policy, EU trade agreements and Development Studies, as well as to NGOs and think tanks that work on European affairs.

Author : Elliott, Kimberly A.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788977371

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Handbook on Globalisation and Labour Standards by Elliott, Kimberly A. Pdf

This comprehensive Handbook explores the complex and volatile debate over globalisation and labour standards. It offers key insights into the impact of globalisation on workers, the obligations of corporations and international legal bodies in protecting workers’ rights and maximising the opportunities offered by international trade and investment.

Author : Josef Drexl,Henning Grosse Ruse - Khan,Souheir Nadde-Phlix
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642390975

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EU Bilateral Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property: For Better or Worse? by Josef Drexl,Henning Grosse Ruse - Khan,Souheir Nadde-Phlix Pdf

​​​​ ​This book focuses on a new generation of bilateral and regional agreements negotiated by the EU with developing countries and which include intellectual property (IP) provisions setting standards exceeding those of the TRIPS Agreement. The contributions critically analyse the IP standards found in these agreements; their potential for reforming the international IP system; the implications for the multilateral IP system and other areas of international law such as human rights; and the often neglected topic of implementing the IP obligations in these agreements.​

Author : International Standards, Conformity Assessment, and U.S. Trade Policy Project Committee,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780309587884

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Standards, Conformity Assessment, and Trade by International Standards, Conformity Assessment, and U.S. Trade Policy Project Committee,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy,National Research Council Pdf

Mandated standards used for vehicle airbags, International Organization for Standards (ISO) standards adopted for photographic film, de facto standards for computer software--however they arise, standards play a fundamental role in the global marketplace. Standards, Conformity Assessment, and Trade provides a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the link between standards, product testing and certification, and U.S. economic performance. The book includes recommendations for streamlining standards development, increasing the efficiency of product testing and certification, and promoting the success of U.S. exports in world markets. The volume offers a critical examination of organizations involved in standards and identifies the urgent improvements needed in the U.S. system for conformity assessment, in which adherence to standards is assessed and certified. Among other key issues, the book explores the role of government regulation, laboratory accreditation, and the overlapping of multiple quality standards in product development and manufacturing. In one of the first treatments of this subject, Standards, Conformity Assessment, and Trade offers a unique and highly valuable analysis of the impact of standards and conformity assessment on global trade.

Author : Myriam Oehri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319493015

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US and EU External Labor Governance by Myriam Oehri Pdf

This book provides a timely and in-depth analysis of how two major trade powers, the United States of America (US) and the European Union (EU), contribute to a socio-political dimension of globalization. Myriam Oehri documents US and EU labor standards promotion in Mexico, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic, drawing on an analysis of bilateral and regional trade agreements (NAALC, US-Morocco FTA, CAFTA-DR, EU-Mexico GA, EU-Morocco AA, and EU-CARIFORUM EPA) as well as extensive field research. The case studies reveal that for the advancement of labor norms, both punitive enforcement and cooperative engagement mechanisms are established in relevant agreements. In practice, the latter are more comprehensively used than the former, irrespective of diverse power relations between the US and the EU on the one hand and the three partner states on the other. The book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in the fields of EU and US studies, foreign, trade, and social policy, regional integration, and international labor studies. It will also be of relevance to practitioners active in the international promotion of labor standards.

Author : Michael G. Plummer,David Cheong,Shintaro Hamanaka
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290921974

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Methodology for Impact Assessment of Free Trade Agreements by Michael G. Plummer,David Cheong,Shintaro Hamanaka Pdf

This publication displays the menu for choice of available methods to evaluate the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It caters mainly to policy makers from developing countries and aims to equip them with some economic knowledge and techniques that will enable them to conduct their own economic evaluation studies on existing or future FTAs, or to critically re-examine the results of impact assessment studies conducted by others, at the very least.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign trade regulation
ISBN : PURD:32754068488281

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Marking of Country of Origin on U.S. Imports by Anonim Pdf