investigate if EU fish standards are protectionist following reoccurring rejection of African fish products at the EU border … variables. In addition, we find EU standards are indeed non-protectionist in spite of the high level of African fish exports … rejected since 2008 at the EU border. Thus, a deeper trade agreement between these trading partners involving a significant …

to the European Union (EU). As a novelty to the literature, we analyse the impacts of EU pesticide standards on African … protect EU growers of certain fruits and vegetables against international competition. We represent these trade costs in the … Africa’s exports of tomatoes to the EU from 2008 to 2013, using the gravity model of trade. Our results show that at both the …

This paper estimates the effects of the EU enlargements in the 2000s for trade in parts and components and trade in … EU and OECD countries. The estimation approach accounts for firm heterogeneity and selection bias in a panel …-data framework. We find a positive and significant effect of the EU-accession on CEECs trade in intermediate and final goods. The …

In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements … the EU, the paper shows that the Eastern Partnership countries, including Ukraine, by far the largest in the group, gain … significantly from free trade agreements with the EU, but gain little if anything from free trade agreements with Russia …

Eastern Partnership attempted to further political stability and economic development by liberalizing trade between the EU and … establishing political democracy and human rights in key countries. In response, the EU increased the emphasis in the ENP on … among the countries of the region as well as between each such country and the EU. Using a panel gravity model of trade …