Download or read book The CARIFORUM EU Economic Partnership Agreement written by Americo Beviglia Zampetti and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement is a sui generis North-South trade and development agreement. The C-EPA is a bi-regional agreement, signed in Bridgetown, Barbados in October 2008, with the specific aim of supporting the sustainable development of the Caribbean. As a paradigm changer in the ACP-EU trade relationship, the C-EPA has unsurprisingly attracted considerable attention. The long process of ratification by twenty-seven EU Member States and fifteen Caribbean countries has begun, and implementation is advancing after an initial delay. This book is the first detailed analysis of the Agreement's provisions, including its negotiating history and prognosis of its future potential. It is written by fifteen Caribbean and European practitioners, most of whom actively contributed to the crafting of the Agreement as CARIFORUM or EU negotiators. The contributions cover the following: ; charting a dual approach to CARIFORUM commitments at both regional and national levels; establishing an architecture of commitments that seeks to support CARIFORUM regional integration; safeguarding Caribbean preferential access to the EU market; broadening the ambit of the Caribbean-EU relationship, as reflected in the Cotonou Agreement, into new trade disciplines; highlighting key drivers in the negotiations; addressing the CARICOM-Dominican Republic economic relationship; examining the special treatment of Haiti; and reviewing the C-EPA's compatibility with WTO rules.
Download or read book European Union Economic Partnership Agreements Handbook Volume 1 CARIFORUM States Economic Partnership Agreement written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Globalization Trade and Economic Development written by Richard Bernal and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Special Issue the CARIFORUM EU Economic Partnership Agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement written by Ginelle Greene and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics analyses the experience and challenges of implementing the CARIFORUM-EU EPA, and draws broad policy lessons for other trade agreements.
Download or read book Globalization Trade and Economic Development written by R. Bernal and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only book-length study of the economic partnership agreement between the European Union and the CARIFORUM countries.
Download or read book Handbook for Civil Society written by Caribbean Community. Secretariat and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empirical Assessment of the Economic Partnership Agreement Between CARIFORUM and EU written by Jedrzej Chwiejczak and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Negotiating Regions written by Helmut Asche and published by Leipziger Universitätsverlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investment Provisions in the CARIFORUM EC Economic Partnership Agreement written by Alicia Nicholls and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among its many firsts, the CARIFORUM-EC EPA is the first international investment agreement between all CARIFORUM and all European Union countries. It aims to create a more favourable, transparent and predictable framework for investment flows between the Parties. However, do the provisions of the EPA create such a framework? What implications does the EPA have for CARIFORUM-EU investment relations? It is these questions which this paper examines. The paper argues that the enhanced market access concessions offered by CARIFORUM countries to EU investors are an important value-added in some cases, while the Agreement's development-friendly provisions attempt to rebalance host states' rights with the broad protections given to investors under the bilateral investment treaties currently existing between some CARIFORUM and EU countries. However, the EPA's lack of investment protection provisions, its co-existence with, and co-dependence on the existing BIT network between CARIFORUM and EU countries, and its notable contradictions in some cases with the provisions in these BITs cast doubt on the Agreement's ability to increase the attractiveness of CARIFORUM countries as investment destinations for EU investors or to enhance the transparency of the CARIFORUM-EU investment framework. The paper goes on to argue that the EU's new exclusive competence over FDI matters could potentially help to remedy this situation.
Download or read book Explaining the Outcomes of Negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements Between the European Union and the African Caribbean and Pacific Regional Economic Communities written by James Nyomakwa-Obimpeh and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes written by Clair Gammage and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical reflection of the North-South regional trade agreements (RTAs), known as the Economic Partnership Agreements, negotiated between the EU and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. Conceiving of regions as legal regimes, Clair Gammage highlights the challenges facing developing countries when negotiating RTAs with developed countries and interrogates the assumption that these agreements will and can promote sustainable development through trade.
Download or read book Trade and investment agreements for sustainable development written by Evita Schmieg and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement signed in 2007 succeeded non-reciprocal trade preferences that had become incompatible with world trade law. As well as liberalising trade, the agreement pursues broader political goals: economic growth, poverty-reduction, closer regional integration in the Caribbean, and environmental concerns. Implementation is to be closely supported through aid for trade. The parties hope that this innovative approach will not only open up trade opportunities and contribute to sustainable development, but also ensure that adequate instruments, in the form of flexibilities and monitoring mechanisms, are provided to minimise risks. Critics fear that partial market opening by partner countries will cause dislocation of their local production. Now, after a number of years of experience with implementation, it is possible to review whether the agreement has succeeded in achieving its ambitious objectives, and whether it could serve as a model for further agreements between unequal trading partners. (SWP Research Paper)
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Download or read book Monitoring the Implementation and Results of the Cariforum EU EPA Annex B written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ex post Evaluation of the EPA Between the EU and Its Member States and the CARIFORUM Member States written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the final report of the study "Ex-post evaluation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and CARIFORUM." The evaluation covers the 10-year period since the EPA has been provisionally applied, namely 2008-2018. With the creation of the Caribbean Community in 1973 the countries of the Caribbean embarked on a process of regional integration. Regional integration, cooperation and engagement were and are the best response to the host of challenges faced by all Caribbean countries. Today these challenges range from the impact of COVID-19 on tourism industries, over regional fragmentation and import dependence, to climate change threatening marine eco-systems or increasing the intensity of hurricanes. The countries do not face these challenges alone, but together with their key partners, the European Union and the US, but also new and emerging partners such as an increasingly active China. Tied together by more than 500 years of shared but also difficult history, as of 2008 the partnership between the Caribbean and Europe is also highlighted by the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and CARIFORUM. It is a first of its kind agreement, comprehensively covering a wide range of areas beyond the traditional purview of trade agreements. The EPA came out of the realization that traditional trade liberalization alone will not yield strong development impacts, and that a more comprehensive scope and depth is needed. Before the EPA was concluded, CARIFORUM countries received non-reciprocal market access to the EU under the EU-ACP agreements. This market access to the EU was on more favourable terms than for other developing countries, which is not in line with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and this situation could therefore not be sustained. Without a new trade agreement in place, the Caribbean countries would have traded with the EU under the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) regime or Most Favoured Nation (MFN) regime, which would subject the region's most important exports (notably sugar, bananas and rum) to high EU duties. Therefore, the EU and CARIFORUM started the negotiations for a new reciprocal trade agreement in April 2004. In December 2007 the negotiations for the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) were concluded and the agreement provisionally entered into force on 29 December 2008. As the first comprehensive EPA at the time, it not only covers reciprocal liberalisation of trade in goods, but also trade in services, investment as well as many other aspects (e.g. customs, e-commerce, competition, sustainable development). The comprehensiveness was also based on the insight that many of the traditional as well as emerging industries of the Caribbean - tourism, services, creative industries, among others - do need tailored disciplines. In addition, development co-operation is an integral part of the agreement, seeing that with their often small size Caribbean countries need technical assistance to fully realize their export potential to the EU. The objective of the evaluation is to determine the extent to which the CARIFORUM-EU EPA has been implemented, where the bottlenecks lie and the extent to which the EPA has contributed effectively and efficiently to reach the objectives it set out. In addition, the evaluation examines the relevance of the EPA in relation to current trade and development issues, as well as its coherence with other EU policy instruments affecting the Caribbean. Based on this analysis, the evaluation aimed to capture important lessons learnt and offer recommendations to address some of the challenges and barriers. In terms of geographical scope, the evaluation covers the EPA both from the perspective of the EU and CARIFORUM with regard to its implementation, functioning and use, as well as the overall knowledge and awareness of it. The evaluation of economic, social and environmental impacts, along with the evaluation of development cooperation efforts, focusses on the CARIFORUM countries.
Download or read book Ex post Evaluation of the EPA Between the EU and Its Member States and the CARIFORUM Member States written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the final report of the study "Ex-post evaluation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and CARIFORUM." The evaluation covers the 10-year period since the EPA has been provisionally applied, namely 2008-2018. With the creation of the Caribbean Community in 1973 the countries of the Caribbean embarked on a process of regional integration. Regional integration, cooperation and engagement were and are the best response to the host of challenges faced by all Caribbean countries. Today these challenges range from the impact of COVID-19 on tourism industries, over regional fragmentation and import dependence, to climate change threatening marine eco-systems or increasing the intensity of hurricanes. The countries do not face these challenges alone, but together with their key partners, the European Union and the US, but also new and emerging partners such as an increasingly active China. Tied together by more than 500 years of shared but also difficult history, as of 2008 the partnership between the Caribbean and Europe is also highlighted by the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and CARIFORUM. It is a first of its kind agreement, comprehensively covering a wide range of areas beyond the traditional purview of trade agreements. The EPA came out of the realization that traditional trade liberalization alone will not yield strong development impacts, and that a more comprehensive scope and depth is needed. Before the EPA was concluded, CARIFORUM countries received non-reciprocal market access to the EU under the EU-ACP agreements. This market access to the EU was on more favourable terms than for other developing countries, which is not in line with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and this situation could therefore not be sustained. Without a new trade agreement in place, the Caribbean countries would have traded with the EU under the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) regime or Most Favoured Nation (MFN) regime, which would subject the region's most important exports (notably sugar, bananas and rum) to high EU duties. Therefore, the EU and CARIFORUM started the negotiations for a new reciprocal trade agreement in April 2004. In December 2007 the negotiations for the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) were concluded and the agreement provisionally entered into force on 29 December 2008. As the first comprehensive EPA at the time, it not only covers reciprocal liberalisation of trade in goods, but also trade in services, investment as well as many other aspects (e.g. customs, e-commerce, competition, sustainable development). The comprehensiveness was also based on the insight that many of the traditional as well as emerging industries of the Caribbean - tourism, services, creative industries, among others - do need tailored disciplines. In addition, development co-operation is an integral part of the agreement, seeing that with their often small size Caribbean countries need technical assistance to fully realize their export potential to the EU. The objective of the evaluation is to determine the extent to which the CARIFORUM-EU EPA has been implemented, where the bottlenecks lie and the extent to which the EPA has contributed effectively and efficiently to reach the objectives it set out. In addition, the evaluation examines the relevance of the EPA in relation to current trade and development issues, as well as its coherence with other EU policy instruments affecting the Caribbean. Based on this analysis, the evaluation aimed to capture important lessons learnt and offer recommendations to address some of the challenges and barriers. In terms of geographical scope, the evaluation covers the EPA both from the perspective of the EU and CARIFORUM with regard to its implementation, functioning and use, as well as the overall knowledge and awareness of it. The evaluation of economic, social and environmental impacts, along with the evaluation of development cooperation efforts, focusses on the CARIFORUM countries.
