Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policy in the 2000s

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Peterson Institute, 2001 - 408 lappuses

Trade protection costs the European Community between 6 and 7 percent of its gross domestic product, or the equivalent of the annual economic output of Spain. Continuing the Institute's series on trade protection in major countries (which already includes the United States, Japan, Korea, and China), this study by Patrick A. Messerlin is the first attempt to measure the impact of all types of protection in the European Union.

Messerlin uses partial equilibrium methods to assess the costs to consumers and to evaluate the political economy of European protection. He also examines in detail the intricate relations between the major EC domestic policies--from the Common Agricultural Policy to the Single Market in services--and EC commercial policy. He aims to assess their dynamic evolution for the decade to come, which will be marked by the first accessions of Central European countries to the EC and by the debate on the European political union. The study provides a valuable agenda for the upcoming round of WTO negotiations and underlines their role as a support for domestic reforms that the EC should undertake for its own benefit.

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Boxes
6
Tables
11
2 Making of the Common Commercial Policy
14
Measuring the Level and Costs of EC Protection during the 1990s
19
1 An overview of EC protection by industry 1990 1995
22
1 Measuring the level of protection and support
32
The Costs of Protection in the European Community
39
2 Estimated welfare effects of liberalizing the 22 protected
46
4 Annual average national and EC subsidies 199098
157
5 EC public procurement markets and operators
184
6 Liberalization in select public procurement markets
186
Toward a Slow Ebb?
197
1 A brief overview of the literature on preferential trade
199
1 The remnants of the EC pyramid of preferences
206
Part I
212
3 The EC enlargement to Central Europe April 2001
220

5 Trade and nontrade barriers for selected farm products
62
Constraints
71
1 The EC trade policy revealed at the 1999 Seattle
76
1 Trade policy topics in EC preparatory texts for 1999
77
2 Consumer and producer subsidy equivalents and total
83
3 The 1992 Common Agricultural Policy Reform
85
measures 198089
89
A blueprint for future
95
6 The Cassis de Dijon ruling and EC TR Policy
105
5 EC technical regulation directives and EC imports
109
7 Mad cow disease and the Common Agricultural Policy
115
6 The differentiated impact of EC trade policy on
123
Emerging EC Commercial Policy
133
1 The EC commercial policy revealed at the Seattle
137
Still to come
151
Part III
227
4 WTO dispute settlement cases January 1995May 2000
239
European Political Union and EC Commercial Policy
249
Appendix A Case Studies
263
Total subsidies to the steel sector approved
281
An overview of the EC agricultural sector
296
Producer and consumer subsidy equivalents
309
EC audiovisual markets Cinema theaters tele
325
Table A 12a Legal framework of EC liberalization in telecom
339
Antidumping
347
Shares in cases by trading
352
Models
365
References
371
Index
389
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Patrick Messerlin was a Visiting Fellow and a professor of economics at the the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and Director of the Groupe d'Economic Mondiale de Sciences Po.

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