Four years after the launch of Global Europe - the European Union's trade strategy from 2006 - policymakers are now … confronted with the first negotiated agreement with one of the rising economic powers in the Far East. The EU-Korea Free Trade … Agreement (hereafter EUKOR) is the first of Europe's "new" Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Traditionally a sceptic of bilateral …

In this paper, I estimate the aggregated ex-post effect of Switzerland's free trade agreements on the prospects for … import data, I find no effects on the quality and variety dimensions but a significant reduction of 8.41% in quality …

context of preferential trade agreements for South African imports of frozen bone-in chicken. We focus first on the firm …-level impact of tariffs on import prices. Findings suggest no pass-through effect from changes in tariffs but our quantity analysis … extensive margin with the inclusion of zero trade values and find that firms are less likely to trade with higher-tariff origins …

Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while …