<scp>EU</scp>Unilateral Trade Policy‐Making: What Role for Import‐Dependent Firms?

Eckhardt, Jappe

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“…The second type is import-dependent manufacturers, which are goods-producing firms for which imports play a pivotal role in the production process. Such firms rely on imports because they have outsourced production or they use imported products as inputs in their production process (Eckhardt, 2013). The argument presented here focuses on the policy preferences, patterns of political mobilization and influence of this set of economic actors in the context of the EU’s PTA policy.…”

Section: Import-dependent Firms and The Eu’s Bilateral Trade Policymentioning

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“…3 This does not mean that these groups will always be capable of influencing trade policy or that they will make other constituencies irrelevant. On the one hand, whether they will be influential depends on their actual engagement in political action – which in turn crucially depends on the amount of benefits expected as well as on the degree of consolidation of the sector (Eckhardt, 2013). On the other hand, even if these groups do mobilize, they do not act in a political vacuum, but they interact with traditional constituencies involved in the trade policy-making process, i.e.…”

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“…Bernard et al, 2007; Maggi and Rodriguez-Clare, 2000). Yet, these analyses remain ambiguous as to the exact political role and extent of influence of importers and hardly any attention is paid to political systems other than that of the US (but see Eckhardt, 2013). Second, we shed light on the political economy of global value chains (GVCs).…”

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The politics of global value chains: import-dependent firms and EU–Asia trade agreements

Eckhardt¹,

Poletti²

2015

Journal of European Public Policy

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In 2006, the European Commission released its Global Europe Communication, in which it announced a shift from a multilateral to a bilateral trade strategy. One of the key pillars of this new strategy was to strengthen the bilateral trade relations with key Asian countries. In contrast to existing analyses that focus on European Union (EU) decision makers’ agency, we propose an explanation for this notable shift in the EU’s trade policy that stresses the political role of import-dependent firms. In light of the increasing integration of such firms into global value chains, the article argues that a plausible case can be made, both theoretically and empirically, that import-dependent firms had a clear stake in the signing of preferential trade agreements between the EU and Asian countries and that their lobbying efforts significantly affected the EU’s decision to start negotiations with South Korea, India and Vietnam.

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The politics of global value chains: import-dependent firms and EU–Asia trade agreements

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Poletti²

2015

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“…For a review of the political economy literature on this topic, please refer to De Bievre andEckhardt (2011) andEckhardt (2011Eckhardt ( , 2013.11 The EU AD regulations have undergone several reforms. For a comprehensive review of EU AD regulations, please refer to the Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the 8th June 2016 (L 176/21).12 On average we identify four cases per year, with a minimum of one case in 1999 and a maximum of nine cases in 2005.13 This dataset includes all intra-EU shipments greater than 100,000 euros and all shipments to countries outside the EU over 1,000 euros, covering more than 90% of French total manufactured goods imported(Ottaviano and Mayer, 2007).…”

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The good, the bad and the ugly: Chinese imports, European Union anti-dumping measures and firm performance

Jabbour

Tao

Vanino

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Journal of International Economics

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This paper analyses the eects of the European Union's anti-dumping taris against Chinese imports on all aected rms: "the good" European import-competing rms, "the bad" Chinese exporters and "the ugly" European importers of dumped products. The results show that temporary import taris are benecial to the least productive "good" EU producers, but harms the most productive "ugly" EU importers. Overall, the net eects of anti-dumping policy on European employment and exports are largely negative. Also taris enhance the productivity of surviving "bad" Chinese exporters and widens the productivity gap with European competitors.

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“…Opposing the import-competing fi rms are retailers and fi rms that have outsourced part of their production. They stand to benefi t from a reduction of domestic trade barriers (Eckhardt, 2013 ). Parallel to the myriad of economic interests that seek to weigh in on the trade negotiations, we have witnessed an increasing involvement of Exploring National Trade Administrations 88 J. ADRIAENSEN civil society organisations (Hocking, 2004 ;Young, 2007 ).…”

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National Administrations in EU Trade Policy

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2016

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The series maps the range of disciplines addressing the study of European public administration. In particular, contributions to the series will engage with the role and nature of the evolving bureaucratic processes of the European Union, including the study of the EU's civil service, of organization aspects of individual institutions such as the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, the External Action Service, the European Parliament, the European Court and the European Central Bank and of inter-institutional relations among these and other actors. The series also welcomes contributions on the growing role of EU agencies, networks of technical experts and national offi cials, and of the administrative dimension of multilevel governance including international organizations. Of particular interest in this respect will be the emergence of a European diplomatic service and the management of the EU's expanding commercial, foreign, development, security and defence policies, as well as the role of institutions in a range of other policy areas of the Union.Beyond this strong focus of EU administrative governance, the series will also include texts on the development and practice of administrative governance within European states. This may include contributions to the administrative history of Europe, which is not just about rules and regulations governing bureaucracies, or about formal criteria for measuring the growth of bureaucracies, but rather about the concrete workings of public administration, both in its executive functions as in its involvement in policy-making. Furthermore the series will include studies on the interaction between the national and European level, with particular attention for the impact of the EU on domestic administrative systems.More information about this series at

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EUUnilateral Trade Policy‐Making: What Role for Import‐Dependent Firms?

Cited by 23 publications

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The politics of global value chains: import-dependent firms and EU–Asia trade agreements

The politics of global value chains: import-dependent firms and EU–Asia trade agreements

The good, the bad and the ugly: Chinese imports, European Union anti-dumping measures and firm performance

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