The paper evaluates the political and economic incentives to conclude the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It discusses EU and Mexican trade policy as well as the multilateral context for FTAs. In addition, using a disaggregated approach at the threedigit Standard International Trade...

Der Beitritt Russlands zur WTO war ein Höhepunkt der ansonsten eher tristen achten WTO-Ministerkonferenz im Dezember 2011. Wirtschaftspolitisch kann der WTO-Beitritt Russlands als 'Krönung' einer nationalen Strategie gesehen werden, die einem Entwicklungsmodell folgt, das für den...

Advances in information and communication technology and especially the Internet have increasingly facilitated the provision of services across national borders. To a growing extent, foreign trade in services is also indispensable to the proper functioning of international value-added chains in...