Cross-Cutting Effects of the EU´s Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) on Developing Economies
The world has seen rapid growth of preferential trade and investment agreements (PTAs) that, by definition, aim to go beyond the existing WTO obligations of the parties. With this growth comes the danger of incompatible obligations as these PTAs overlap within a country. This study examines the sources of overlap in various PTAs and the compliance costs that PTAs may create for a developing country, with a special focus on the agricultural realm. Examining the reality of divergent SPS standards, we conclude that better-targeted “Aid for Trade” and regulatory streamlining within the EU can help to mitigate compliance costs in developing countries. Additionally, involvement of the private sector at an earlier stage in PTA negotiations may also help to clarify compliance costs and build their mitigation into the agreements.
Študija
Zunanji avtor
Christopher HARTWELL (CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research, Poland)
O dokumentu
Vrsta publikacije
Politično področje
Ključna beseda
- Afrika
- Amerika
- analiza stroškov in koristi
- Azija in Oceanija
- Bocvana
- carinska politika
- carinsko usklajevanje
- DRUŽBENA IN SOCIALNA VPRAŠANJA
- države v razvoju
- ekonomska geografija
- EVROPSKA UNIJA
- FINANCE
- financiranje in naložbe
- GEOGRAFIJA
- gospodarske razmere
- GOSPODARSTVO
- graditev Evrope
- intelektualna lastnina
- izdelek s poreklom
- kmetijska politika
- KMETIJSTVO, GOZDARSTVO IN RIBIŠTVO
- Maroko
- mednarodna trgovina
- MEDNARODNE ORGANIZACIJE
- MEDNARODNI ODNOSI
- Nepal
- politika sodelovanja
- politična geografija
- POSLOVANJE IN KONKURENCA
- preferencialni sporazum
- PROIZVODNJA, TEHNOLOGIJA IN RAZISKOVANJE
- raziskave in intelektualna lastnina
- računovodstvo
- sporazum (EU)
- Svetovna trgovinska organizacija
- svetovne organizacije
- tehnična ovira
- tehnično sodelovanje
- tehnologija in tehnični predpisi
- TRGOVINA
- trgovinska politika
- usklajevanje standardov
- varstvo naložb
- zakonodaja o zdravstvenem varstvu rastlin
- zdravstvena zakonodaja
- zdravstvo
- Združene države