Tomorrow's silk road : assessing an EU-China free trade agreement / / Jacques Pelkmans , and Joseph Francois

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910796865903321
• Autore: Pelkmans Jacques
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 1-78660-788-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Disciplina: 382.730724
• Soggetti: Free trade - Mathematical models; Reciprocity (Commerce); China Foreign economic relations European Union countries; European Union countries Foreign economic relations China; European Union countries Commerce China; China Commerce European Union countries; European Union countries Economic policy; China Economic policy; Pays de l'Union européenne Relations économiques extérieures Chine; Pays de l'Union européenne Commerce Chine; Pays de l'Union européenne Politique économique; Chine Politique économique; China; European Union countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The first comprehensive and in-depth economic and regulatory analysis of a possible Free Trade Area (FTA) between China and the EU.