European Union -Developments in EU Trade Policy
Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 25 November 2008.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
FOREWORD—What this report is about
Chapter 1: Setting the Scene
EU Trade Policy formulation
Our inquiry
Chapter 2: The Need for Trade
Box 1: Regional groupings
Links between trade and economic growth
Figure 1: Formal and informal country
groupings at the World Trade Organisation
The effects of commodity price volatility
on attitudes towards liberalisation
Chapter 3: The Doha Round
Box 2: The origins of the Doha Development
Round
The Doha Round and services
The July 2008 Geneva Ministerial
A lack of drivers for a deal?
Business community pressure
Binding existing tariffs
Box 3: Bound and applied tariffs explained
The EU's position and role
Chapter 4: Trade Disputes
Dispute Settlement
Box 5: The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism
Chapter 5: Trade and Development
Economic Partnership Agreements
Box 7: The history of Economic Partnership
Agreements
The regional approach
The Commission and Government's views
Rules of Origin
The EU and development
Chapter 6: Unilateral, Bilateral & Regional
Liberalisation
Unilateral liberalisation
Bilateral trade agreements
The EU's approach
Blending bilateral and multilateral agreements
Chapter 7: The Role of the WTO
The single undertaking
Other roles for the WTO
Chapter 8: Summary of Conclusions
The Doha Round
Trade disputes
Trade and development
Unilateral, bilateral & regional liberalisation
The role of the WTO
Appendix 1: Sub-Committee A (Economic and
Financial Affairs, and International Trade)
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for Evidence
Appendix 4: Glossary
Appendix 5: Reports
Oral Evidence
Oral evidence, 6 May 2008
Oral evidence, 13 May 2008
Oral evidence, 3 June 2008
Oral evidence, 17 June 2008
Oral evidence, 23 June 2008
Oral evidence, 24 June 2008
Oral evidence, 1 July 2008
Oral evidence, 10 July 2008
Oral evidence, 11 July 2008
Oral evidence, 15 July 2008
Oral evidence, 6 November 2008
Written Evidence
NOTE: References in the text of the report are as
follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence
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