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The EU's trade policy does not exist in a vacuum. On the one hand, it is affected by international standard and rule-setting. On the other hand, the EU is itself an influential actor shaping the international trade agenda by participating in the work of international organisations and fora. This short note focuses on the European Investment Bank (EIB).

Las diez rondas de negociaciones sobre la Asociación Transatlántica de Comercio e Inversión UE-EE.UU. (ATCI) celebradas en los dos últimos años han dado pocos resultados. Desde que se iniciaron las conversaciones —que generaron muchas expectativas— en junio de 2013, los negociadores han evitado abordar contenidos reales o tratar cuestiones difíciles. Los objetivos políticos del mandato de la UE y los expresados por el Parlamento Europeo en su reciente Resolución sobre la ATCI, así como los objetivos ...

The position and concerns of developing countries have only belatedly entered the discussion over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). While poor countries may gain much from the positive effects of the TTIP, their precarious positions means that they may be less able to react and adapt to negative consequences. The EU is required to assess the development effects of its policies, including trade policies, by the Lisbon Treaty. Although the shape and scope of the final TTIP ...

The European Commission has forwarded draft regulation to the European Parliament to limit the import of ’conflict minerals’. Including tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold, conflict minerals originate in countries and regions marked by armed conflict or the risk of conflict; the exports of these ‘conflict minerals’ are suspected of illicitly financing the army or other military groups. The initiative attempts to set-up a voluntary Union system for supply chain due diligence self-certification of responsible ...

The Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada, on which negotiations were concluded at the EU-Canada Summit in Ottawa on 26 September 2014, will be a 'first' in many areas. The agreement will be the EU's first with another highly industrialised country to facilitate market access for goods, services and investment by abolishing almost all tariffs and reducing a wide array of non-tariff barriers. CETA is also the first agreement to have been negotiated with a sound chapter ...

Various EU initiatives to supporting the internationalisation of European SMEs fall short of the European Parliament's expectations. Although independent evaluations of the European Business Centres in India, China and Thailand suggested that bold decisions were necessary, the European Commission has only adopted some changes to the measures. Using budget appropriations from the previous budget framework, the Commission plans to support the current structures until the end of their contracts – which ...

The US Congress is mandated by the US Constitution to exercise a regulatory and oversight role in international trade. It also has a role to play in negotiating external trade agreements, exercising its oversight, legislative and advisory functions. To date, the Congress has played an active role in the negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), overseeing the negotiations, gathering the views of key stakeholders during hearings and events it has organised, and flagging ...

The negotiations on a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) started in June 2013, with enormous political support on both sides of the Atlantic. One year on, after six rounds of negotiations, initial enthusiasm in view of an agreement which would create a transatlantic market free of tariffs and other non-tariff barriers with the aim of boosting growth and creating additional jobs, both in the EU and the US, has given way to defence of own markets. Be it increased ...

The EU’s relationship with India and the floundering bilateral trade negotiations may be reinvigorated by the results of the country’s elections for India’s lower house of parliament – the Lok Sabha – held between 7 April and 12 May 2014. The landslide victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leader, Narendra Modi, came at the expense of the Congress party; after being in power for all but 18 years since the country's independence in 1947, Congress obtained only 44 seats – less than 8 ...

The decision of EU and US policy makers, announced in early February 2013, to launch negotiations on a 'comprehensive, ambitious trade and investment agreement' has been widely welcomed. The EU and the US are major economic partners, together generating about half of the world's gross domestic product and almost one third of global trade. By eliminating customs duties and reducing non-tariff barriers, liberalising bilateral commercial relations further is expected to lead to sustainable economic ...