Research Catalog

Title

Navigating new waters : a reader on ACP-EU trade relations / edited by Sanoussi Bilal, Roman Grynberg.

Publication

London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Bilal, Sanoussi.
• Grynberg, Roman.
• Commonwealth Secretariat

Description

2 v. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

An essential reader and reference tool for trade experts and interested parties, bringing together key analysis on all aspects of trade negotiations between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states and the European Union. The editors, both highly experienced in trade negotiations, have selected the most useful articles on all key aspects of trade negotiations, including market access, services, fisheries, regional integration, compatibility with the multilateral framework, the development dimension and capacity building in trade negotiations. The introduction highlights the major concerns of the book, focusing on ensuring that the priorities of developing countries are addressed. This publication is comprised of two volumes.

Alternative Title

Reader on ACP-EU trade relations

Subject

• Free trade > Developing countries
• International trade
• European Union countries > Foreign economic relations > Developing countries
• Developing countries > Foreign economic relations > European Union countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword -- EPAs make sense only if they foster development : a broad overview -- From Lomé to Cotonou : business as usual? -- Towards greater flexibility in Article XXIV of GATT 1994 in the context of reciprocal trade agreements beween ACP states and the EU -- Preparing for EPAs : creating ACP offensive and defensive agendas -- The EPAs and sustainable development : benchmarks for pro-development monitoring of the negotiations -- Economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between the EU and SSA : risks, rewards, and alternatives -- For richer or poorer : transforming economic partnership agreements between Europe and Africa -- Preference-dependent economies in the Doha Round : impacts and options -- GSP reform : a longer term strategy (with special reference to the ACP) -- EU assistance to ACP countries since 1975 -- An analysis of EU-ACP aid flows through the EDF from Lomé I to the Cotonou agreement and proposals for the 10th and 11th EDFs --^
• An assessment of the overall implementation and adjustment costs for the ACP countries of economic partnership agreements with the EU -- A strong cocktail or a weak punch? A case study of EDF assistance to the ACP private sector -- In defence of the ACP submission on special and differential treatment in GATT Article XXIV -- Rules of origin under EPAs : key issues and new directions -- WTO/EPA negotiations : for a better co-ordination of ACP positions on agriculture -- ACP-EU economic partnership agreements : sanitary and phytosanitary measures -- Overview of the EU policies on key ACP commodities -- Reform of EU export subsidies on sugar : the legal and economic implications for the ACP countries -- EBA-equivalence for non-LDC sugar exporters? -- Financing diversification in ACP sugar-exporting countries -- Small states in the banana dispute and the lessons to be learnt from their experience -- ACP-EU economic partnership agreements : fisheries --^
• EU rule of origin for ACP tuna products (HS Chapter 16.04) -- The development dimension of services negotiations in the Cotonou partnership agreement -- Tourism services negotiation issues : implications for Cariforum countries -- A southern agenda on investment? Promoting development with balanced rights and obligations for investors, host states and home states -- The European Investment Bank and the ACP countries : an effective partnership? -- Negotiating an economic partnership agreement for Eastern and Southern Africa -- The impact of economic partnership agreement negotiation on Southern Africa -- The impact of ACP-EU EPAs on ECOWAS countries : an empirical analysis of the trade and budget effects -- Negotiating an EU-Central Africa EPA : a brief overview -- The negotiations of an ECOWAS-EU EPA : key features -- A Caribbean-EU EPA : towards an enhanced partnership? --^
• A development agenda for the economic partnership agreement between the EU and the Pacific ACP (PACP) : a concept paper -- The private sector's perspective, priorities and role in regional integration and implications for regional trade arrangements -- Coercion or engagement? Economics and institutions in ACP-EU trade negotiations -- Talking trade : practical insights on the capacity to conduct trade negotiations.

ISBN

0850928419

OCLC

133145452

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library