Public procurement is a negotiating area gaining in importance at multilateral and bilateral level, as evidenced by a brief review of procurement provisions in existing trade agreements. The size of procurement spending stands in most developed economies at double-digit percentage points of GDP....

This paper draws the attention to the growing importance of services inputs in manufacturing sectors’ exports in the EU and beyond. The GATS existing four modes of supply do not adequately cover this type of indirect services value-added trade. Hence, theoretically, the case for a new indirect...

Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, den Transformationsprozess einiger mittel- und osteuropäischer Staaten unter Berücksichtigung ausgewählter realwirtschaftlicher und monetärer Aspekte zu analysieren, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf den Visegradländern sowie auf Bulgarien und Rumänien bzw. der...

Negotiations for the EU-Singapore FTA were concluded on December 6, 2012. Given that this is the EU’s first FTA with an ASEAN member country and the second one with a major Asian trading partner after the conclusion of the EU-Korea FTA, this agreement paves the way for future FTAs with...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the determinants of direct cross-border public procurement in the EU Member States. For this purpose, we use a unique dataset based on obligatory data published on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) which covers public procurement contract award notices for the...

According to recent analyses, processing trade represents around 50% of total Chinese exports. But processing trade is not just a feature of Chinese trade or other emerging economies. It is also one option that EU trade policy offers to interested companies, subject to a specific set of rules...

Given the complexity of the issues surrounding the concept of sustainable tourism, the current paper tries to provide a unified methodology to assess tourism sustainability, based on a number of quantitative indicators. The proposed methodological framework (Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool...

There is an ongoing debate about best ways to assess the compatibility of RTAs with WTO rules and the possible negative impact that the proliferation of RTA formation may have on individual members and on the stability of the multilateral trading system as a whole. Therefore, rules defining the...

Developing countries are arguably the most affected by the increasing regularity and costs of natural disasters. In addition to the often impressive casualty figures, there can be systemic trade and development implications as well. Results from a simple model suggest that exports of affected...

There is an ongoing debate about best ways to assess the compatibility of RTAs with WTO rules and the possible negative impact that the proliferation of RTA formation may have on individual members and on the stability of the multilateral trading system as a whole. Therefore, rules defining the...