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The Brussels Effect, once emblematic of the EU's alleged influence in shaping global regulations, has now become a factor contributing to global regulatory fragmentation. The EU must recalibrate its trajectory towards a liberal and rules-based trading order, prioritizing widespread regulatory...
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Wirtschaftlicher Zwang ist ein Mittel der Außenpolitik, welches in einem internationalen Umfeld, das geprägt ist von geopolitischen Spannungen und der Instrumentalisierung des Handels als Waffe, immer mehr an Bedeutung gewinnt. Solche Maßnahmen stellen auch für die EU ein zunehmendes Problem...
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The concept of Farmers’ Rights recognized the role of farmers as custodians of biodiversity and helped to draw attention to the need to preserve practices that are essential for sustainable agriculture. This paper examines one particular aspect of such rights, perhaps the most controversial....
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products are couched in ever more "technical" and abstruse language that confuses even the World Health Organization (WHO …
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André Sapir produced this short paper at the request of Commissioner Mandelson for the Expert Seminar on Trade Defence Instruments at the European Commission.
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antidumping, the most frequently used instrument. Antidumping practice is not transparent and often rests on convoluted … scrutiny of applied practices. But the European Commission fails to give a convincing justification of antidumping. Its overall … defence of antidumping confuses the concepts of trade defence instruments and disregards basic economic analysis. …
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A new trade war is looming as the EU is now embarking on its first countervailing duty (CVD) against Chinese subsidies over coated fine paper. As the EU gives a significant amount of subsidies to local production, China is not short of sectors to retaliate against - especially as the evidence in...
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created distortions in economic competition which are increasingly affecting world markets. Unfortunately, the world's current … constructive attempts by the EU and the USA to reform the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have continued to meet with … world market and of exerting more pressure on China to agree to new trade rules on industrial subsidies. After all, if the …
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collectively account for 90% of world trade. Many GATT members were thus peripheral to the process. Among other consequences this …
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