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| Title: | EU (European Union) Trade Policy and the Future of Africa's Trade Relationship with the EU |
| Author: | Goodison, Paul |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 112 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 247-266 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Europe |
| Subjects: | trade negotiations trade policy European Union Economics and Trade international relations |
| External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240701449646 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4A2FBE8AEC631AAD2E2B |
| Abstract: | With the Cotonou agreement coming to an end at the beginning of 2008, Africa is faced with the idea of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), whose core is regional free-trade agreements encompassing policy commitments in a range of trade-related areas and services liberalization, and these will tie Africa into a dependent relationship with Europe. This paper examines EU trade policy and the future of Africa's trade relationship with the EU. Following an outline of the broad approach of the EU trade strategy, the paper discusses the main issues in the negotiations, namely policies towards trade in goods, trade in services and other trade-related areas. It shows how a 'development dimension' adds an element of window-dressing. The paper considers the development programmes that the EU is promising in order to address infrastructural constraints in the partner countries, and the costs of adjustment to free trade, in particular the loss of State revenues generated from tariffs. The paper concludes with an attempt to foresee the likely implications of the negotiations. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
