economy. It involves liberalization and facilitation of trade in goods, services, and investment, as well as protection and … promotion of investment; narrowing the development gap; and free flow of skilled labor and freer flow of capital. The AEC … removal of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and services and investment liberalization. In summary, the AEC has come a long way, but …

Using a newly assembled, consistent and disaggregated dataset (12 goods and 7 services) on internal and bilateral trade … for 25 European countries, we analyse the difference between trade in goods and services. The measurement of both trade in … goods and trade in services is improved over earlier research, allowing us to compare trade in goods and services in a …