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Tomorrow's silk road : assessing an EU-China free trade agreement /

The first comprehensive and in-depth economic and regulatory analysis of a possible Free Trade Area (FTA) between China and the EU.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pelkmans, Jacques (Autor)
Otros Autores: Francois, Joseph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brussels : London : CEPS ; Rowman and Littlefield International, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tomorrow's Silk Road; TABLE OF CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Executive Summary; Introduction; Part I. The Global and Bilateral Context; 1. Why an EU-China free trade area?; 1.1 The context for a free trade area study; 1.2 Is there a case for an EU-China FTA?; 2. China and the EU in a rapidly changing world economy; 2.1 Chinese weight as an EU trade partner: Anticipate 2030; 2.2 Competitiveness and reforms in the EU and China; 2.3 Comparing China and the EU's trade strategies: Multilateral, plurilateral and bilateral.
  • 3. Bilateral economic relations: Trade and investments4. Global value chains: Significance for the EU and China; Part II. Design and Substance of an EU-China FTA; 5. What would an EU-China FTA look like?; 6. Market access in industrial goods: An analysis of tariffs; 6.1 Analysing bilateral trade and its sectoral composition; 6.2 Industrial tariff profiles of the EU and China; 6.3 Where China and the EU differ: Tariff peaks; 7. Market access in goods: Trade defence remedies; 7.1 Relevance of trade defence for an FTA; 7.2 Recent bilateral application of trade defence.
  • 7.3 The 2017 revision of EU trade defence measures and the status of China8. Market access in agriculture: Tariffs and tariff-rate quotas; 8.1 Bilateral agro-food trade and its composition; 8.2 Tariff and TRQ barriers in bilateral agro-food trade; 8.3 Tariffs peaks in agro-food; 8.4 Tough barriers: Tariff rate quotas; 9. Technical barriers to trade; 9.1 Mapping bilateral TBTs and their scope; 9.2 TBTs between China and the EU: Empirical evidence at sector and product levels; 9.3 Transforming China's technical regulation, standards and conformity assessment.
  • 9.4 Some inferences about lowering TBTs in an EU-China FTA10. Reducing SPS barriers in an EU-China FTA; 10.1 Market access barriers of the Chinese SPS regime; 10.2 Concerns from China and WTO partners about EU SPS barriers; 10.3 Lowering SPS barriers in an EU-China FTA; 11. Market access in services: China and the EU; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Measuring the extent of market access in services: China and the EU; 11.3 Sectoral services market access: China and the EU; 11.4 Potential value added of an EU-China FTA, based on prior experiences; 12. Public procurement.
  • 12.1 China's offers to accede to the WTO GPA12.2 Barriers to EU public procurement as seen by Chinese investors in Europe; 12.3 Possible directions for EU-China negotiations on public procurement; 13. Intellectual property rights and geographical indications; 13.1 Introduction; 13.2 EU-China IP Dialogue; 13.3 China's IPR legislation and enforcement; 13.4 IPR protection and enforcement measures in China's FTAs; 13.5 IPR protection and enforcement measures in EU FTAs; 13.6 Geographical Indications; 14. State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and competition policy.