RESPECT e-books

Promoting ‘Green’ and ‘Social’ Values with China: Assessing EU Trade-related Cooperation on Sustainable Development

Promoting ‘Green’ and ‘Social’ Values with China: Assessing EU Trade-related Cooperation on Sustainable Development | Edited by Weinian Hu and Jacques Pelkmans | CEPS | May 2022

For the present e-book, the authors are indebted to many colleagues from universities in Europe, China and the US, for insightful discussion and valuable suggestions. In particular, we wish to thank Bernard Hoekman for encouragement, suggestions and his insistence to bring out this eBook. The theme and its in-depth treatment is neither a run-of-the-mill analysis of EU Trade Policy, nor of EU-China cooperative relations. Trade policy specialists do not deal with bilateral cooperation, with some occasional sectoral exceptions. The debates in the EU circuits are almost entirely focused on trade negotiations and mutually agreed ‘hard’ obligations. We show that there is more and that, in the case of EU-China, it matters for sustainable development whilst supporting an important plank of EU trade policy.

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Rebooting Multilateral Trade Cooperation: Perspectives from China and Europe

Rebooting Multilateral Trade Cooperation: Perspectives from China and Europe | Edited by B. Hoekman, X. Tu and D. Wang | voxEU.org | July 2021

Joint leadership by China and the EU to establish a balanced work programme spanning old and new issues of interest to all WTO members is necessary to safeguard the rules-based trade order. This book, a product of a Horizon 2020 research project (RESPECT), brings together essays written by teams of European and Chinese trade policy experts, who explore possible paths to revitalise the WTO.

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E-Book launch, Friends of Multilateralism Group, July 2021

Chapters

Introduction
B. Hoekman, X. Tu, and D. Wang
Chapter: 1 Reviving the negotiation function of the WTO: Why the onus falls on the three major powers
X. Tu and R. Wolfe
Chapter 2: Transparency and Local Subsidies in China and the United States
S. J. Evenett and Q. Kong
Chapter 3: China, the European Union, and the WTO Dispute Settlement Crisis
S. Liao and P. C. Mavroidis
Chapter 4: Special and differential treatment and developing country status: Can the two be separated?
P. Low
Chapter 5: National security and other non-trade objectives under WTO law
F. Cui, C. Hoeffler, and S. C. Hofmann
Chapter 6: Is it Possible to Promote an Agricultural Agenda in the WTO?
X. Lu and A. Matthews
Chapter 7: About Knowledge and Rulemaking: Reforming WTO Rules on Subsidies
S. Li and L. Rubini
Chapter 8: A Core Proposal for Reforming the WTO’s Subsidy Rules
J. Liu
Chapter 9: What kinds of rules are needed to support digital trade?
M. F. Ferracane and M. Li
Chapter 10: Updating the General Agreement on Trade in Services
B. Hoekman and J. Shi
Chapter 11: The EU–China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: A Model for Investment Coverage in the World Trade Organization?
J. Kurtz and B. Gong
Chapter 12: State-Owned Enterprises and International Competition: Towards Plurilateral Agreement
B. Hoekman and A. Sapir
Chapter 13: Climate Change, Trade Policy, and the WTO
J. Zhang and Z. Xie

Europe’s Trade Strategy for the Age of Geoeconomic Globalisation

A new eBook by Christian Bluth, ‘Europe’s Trade Strategy for the Age of Geoeconomic Globalisation’, forecasts the political and non-political megatrends that will shape the world for the next two decades and maps out a comprehensive strategy for EU trade policymaking to address and manage these shifting challenges of the future.

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