European Union Trade Policy and Non-Trade Issues What Do We Know and Where Do We Go from Here?
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2023Type
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This chapter reviews the existing data and literature on the European Union’s use of trade policies to pursue non-trade policy objectives (NTPOs), such as labor rights and environmental commitments, and proposes avenues for future research. It starts by reviewing the state of the art on the institutional design of NTPOs in EU trade agreements and gives an account of EU commitments to NTPOs vis-à-vis its trade partners over time. It then examines the political economy of the EU’s pursuit of objectives beyond trade and reviews novel data on EU stakeholder preferences over NTPOs. It subsequently argues that additional research is needed to focus on the implementation of measures that involve NTPOs. Researchers would benefit from exploring how (and to what extent) stakeholders effect the pathways that link implementation of non-trade policies to trade policies and the extent to which compliance with NTPOs in the past influences stakeholders’ political mobilization in future trade agreements and policies. Show more
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Coherence of the European Union Trade Policy with Its Non-Trade ObjectivesPages / Article No.
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Cambridge University PressSubject
preferential trade agreement; European Union; non-trade policy objective; implementation; political economyOrganisational unit
03714 - Schimmelfennig, Frank / Schimmelfennig, Frank
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