EU Trade Agreements and Non-Trade Policy Objectives

Alessandro Ferrari, Matteo Fiorini and Joseph Francois, Bernard Hoekman, Lisa Maria Lechner, Miriam Manchin, Filippo Santi
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Bernard Hoekman, Joseph Francois and Miriam Manchin

No 2021/48, RSCAS Working Papers from European University Institute

Abstract: The EU’s common commercial policy is used as an instrument to realize its values in EU trading partners, reflected in the inclusion of sustainable trade and development chapters in EU preferential trade agreements (PTAs). In this paper we ask if including non-trade provisions (NTPs) in EU PTAs has a systematic positive effect on non-trade outcomes in partner countries. We analyze the relationship between bilateral trade flows, the coverage of NTPs in EU PTAs and the performance of EU partner countries on several non-trade outcome variables using synthetic control methods. We find no robust evidence of a causal effect of including NTPs in EU PTAs on indicators of non-trade outcomes.

Keywords: Non-trade policy objectives; EU trade agreements; trade policy; non-trade provisions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-04
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