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Andreosso-O'Callaghan, B,Christiansen, T,Kirchner, E,Murray, PB
2013
January
Palgrave Handbook Of Eu-Asia Relations
Market Access and Trade Facilitation
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This chapter discusses the evolving trade policy of the EU with Asia from its origin, by placing a dual emphasis on its developments since the implementation of the 2006 Global Europe Strategy, and on the way this strategy may have been affected by the current economic crisis. The issues of market access, giving rise to static bilateral trade benefits, and trade facilitation will be analysed, particularly in the case of the newly signed EU-Korea free trade area (FTA) agreement and of the other planned FTAs (such as the EU-ASEAN and EU-India FTAs). Trade facilitation and market access are indeed at the core of these agreements. The sensitive issue of market access in the case of the China-EU bilateral trade relationship will also be scrutinised, since China's entry into the WTO and against the background of mounting tensions created by the current economic crisis.
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