The Transatlantic Trade and investment Partnership (TTIP): Challenges and Opportunities for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection in the Area of Motor Vehicles
The expected effects of TTIP on the European automotive industry will be significant, but depend strongly on the scope of trade liberalisation. In the field of motor vehicles TTIP should go far beyond the degree of trade liberalization reached in previous trade agreements between the EU and other countries. Tariffs should be eliminated and also non-tariff barriers (NTBs) reduced. Regulatory cooperation to reduce NTBs is promising particularly in the automotive industry. Beside harmonisation, international standards and cooperation on new technologies, another promising approach is mutually recognition of aspects of regulation based on sound evidence of the equivalence of outcomes. However, the challenge is twofold: identifying unnecessarily trade distorting NTBs while at the same time respecting EU regulatory sovereignty, democratic legitimacy, and the high level of EU standards in passenger and environmental safety.
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IW Köln
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Type de publication
Domaine politique
Mot-clé
- accord de libre-échange
- accès au marché
- Amérique
- Asie - Océanie
- Canada
- commerce international
- compétitivité
- construction européenne
- Corée du Sud
- droit de l'Union européenne
- entrave non tarifaire
- ENTREPRISE ET CONCURRENCE
- GÉOGRAPHIE
- géographie politique
- géographie économique
- INDUSTRIE
- industrie automobile
- industrie mécanique
- libération des échanges
- normalisation
- négociation d'accord (UE)
- organisation de l'entreprise
- politique commerciale
- politique commerciale commune
- politique tarifaire
- politique tarifaire
- principe de reconnaissance mutuelle
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGIE ET RECHERCHE
- propriété intellectuelle
- recherche et propriété intellectuelle
- technologie et réglementation technique
- UNION EUROPÉENNE
- ÉCHANGES ÉCONOMIQUES ET COMMERCIAUX
- États-Unis