The implementation of the European Union’s (EU) Green Deal to reduce emissions by 2030 and to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 will have an impact on the EU’s trade policy and on its trade relations with its non-EU partners. With the ongoing decarbonisation process of European economic...

This working paper reviews the findings of the most prominent studies on the economic impact of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), focussing on those commissioned by the European Commission and by the German government. It casts doubt on the methods used and concludes...

On July 8, 2013, the United States and the European Union launched talks for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a proposed international investment agreement. This agreement would create the world's largest free trade area and cover almost half of the entire global economic...

Purpose: The purpose of this work is to confront the social expectations of the TTIP, and how it effects the so-called “expert knowledge”. Defining a mismatch between the social expectations and expert knowledge may contribute to better understanding of the controversies related to the TTIP....

Das Transatlantische Handels- und Investitionsabkommen zwischen der Europäischen Union und den USA könnte die größte Freihandelszone der Welt schaffen und ein für Deutschland und alle Länder der Weltwirtschaft wichtiger Expansion- und Innovationsimpuls we

The paper provides an overview of the potential social, economic and environmental impacts of an EU-Libya FTA as gauged by the EU-Libya Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA). The main potential benefits to both the EU and Libya from the proposed trade agreement come from closer...

On 1 July 2012 it was one year since the Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of Korea and the European Union took effect. The trade pact dedicates Chapter 11 to competition in a broad sense and disallows and sanctions certain practices and transactions involving goods or services which...

At a moment when a global effort to pursue a development-oriented trade round seems to have stalled, some of the largest economies in international trade have turned their attentions to regional accords. The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership cover...

Regulatory cooperation to eliminate non-tariff barriers to trade (NTBs) resulting from differences in product standards and technical regulations has become a prominent issue in Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) negotiations. This paper looks at the most important challenges and opportunities...