The Unabated Proliferation of Preferential Trade Agreements. The Case of EU and Japan

Agnes Ghibutiu () and Iulia Oehler-Şincai

Knowledge Horizons - Economics, 2013, vol. 5, issue 3, 27-31

Abstract: The steady spread of preferential trade agreements is not a new phenomenon in the multilateral trading system. Striking is, however, the outstanding dynamics of the new bilateral and regional initiatives among the traditional trading powers - the EU, U.S. and Japan - in the most recent period. Our paper aims to address these new deals, as illustrated by the current negotiations for a deep and comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the EU and Japan launched in March 2013. It sheds light on the main factors behind the unabated march towards FTAs and reveals some of its effects on both bilateral trade relations and the multilateral trading system. It argues that the fast move towards FTAs should be seen as a means of rapid market opening within the broader context of reforming the very fundamentals of the major trading powers’ economic and trade policies in response to the consequences of the financial crisis.

Keywords: Trade policy; trade negotiations; FTA; EU; Japan; multilateral trading system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F13 F14 O52 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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