This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the textile and clothing (T&C) industries command sizeable shares...

Protektionismus, also die wirtschaftliche Abschottung gegenüber ausländischer Konkurrenz, verschärfte die große Weltwirtschaftskrise in den 1930er-Jahren maßgeblich. Auch zu Beginn der globalen Finanzkrise 2008 befürchteten viele Experten, die betroffenen Länder könnten sich abschotten...

On 9 december 2016, the upper house of Japan's parliament approved the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pushed for the TPP's ratification despite US President Trump's decision to pull out the deal, insisting it would send a signal about Japan's continuing support to...