From Lomé to Cotonou: Business as Usual?

Babarinde, Olufemi

doi:10.54648/eerr2004002

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“…6 Even African LDCs may, in the end, feel obliged to participate in reciprocal trade schemes instead of their non-reciprocal treatment under EBA (cf. Babarinde and Faber, 2004). For example, Southern African LDCs such as Lesotho, Mozambique, Angola and Tanzania will probably form part of the EU-SADC EPA, and Eastern African LDCs such as Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe are negotiating reciprocity under the EU-ESA EPA.…”

Section: The European Union and The Commodity Debate: From Trade To A...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The European Union & the Commodity Debate: From Trade to Aid

Orbie¹

2007

Review of African Political Economy

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This article departs from the renewed interest in commodity market regulation and assesses the position of the European Union (EU) on supply-management in tropical commodities. After sketching the resurgence of the commodity debate on the international trade front, the second section recapitulates the thesis that Europe's trade relations shifted from innovative and interventionist arrangements in the 1970s, to a neo-liberal outlook by the end of the 1990s. Based on this historical account, we examine whether the EU's role has changed during the commodity debate since 2003-2004. The analysis makes clear that, although EU policy-makers and institutions have addressed the issue, supply-management schemes are not considered. Without challenging the mainstream approach to commodity trade, Europe's initiatives with regard to 1) export stabilisation, 2) commodity protocols and 3) market access rather show an evolution ‘from trade to aid’. The article concludes with a number of explanations for this recent shift.

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Section: The European Union and The Commodity Debate: From Trade To A...mentioning

confidence: 99%