Английская Википедия:Free trade agreements of the European Union
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The European Union has concluded free trade agreements (FTAs)[1] and other agreements with a trade component with many countries worldwide and is negotiating with many others.[2] The European Union negotiates free trade deals on behalf of all of its member states, as the member states have granted the EU has an "exclusive competence" to conclude trade agreements. Even so, member states' governments control every step of the process (via the Council of the European Union, whose members are national ministers from each national government):
- Before negotiations start, member states' governments (via the Council of Ministers) approve the negotiating mandate;
- During negotiations, member states' governments are regularly briefed on the progress of negotiations and can update the negotiations mandate or suspend negotiations;
- Upon conclusion of negotiations, member states' governments decide whether the agreement should be signed;
- After approval from the European Parliament and (in case the agreement covers areas other than trade such as investment protection) upon ratification in each member state parliament, member states' governments decide whether the agreement should be concluded and enter into effect.
Trade agreements in force - fully ratified
Trade agreements in force - provisionally applied
Agreements finalised (negotiations concluded, but not signed)
Negotiating new agreements
State | New agreement being negotiated | Status |
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Шаблон:Flagu | Australia Agreement | Negotiations launched in 2018[79] |
Шаблон:Flagu | European Union Association Agreement | Negotiations launched in 2015[80] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Free Trade Agreement | Negotiations launched in 2016[79] |
Шаблон:Flagu | European Union Association Agreement | Negotiations launched in 2015[80] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Free Trade Agreement | Negotiations launched in 2015[79] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Economic Partnership Agreements as part of the Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement | Informed the EU of its intention to accede to the EPA.[81] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Economic Partnership Agreements as part of the Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement | Informed the EU of its intention to accede to the EPA.[82] |
Шаблон:Flagu | European Union Association Agreement | Negotiations launched in 2015[80] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Free Trade Agreement | Negotiations from 2007 to 2013;[83] restarted in 2022[84][85] |
Negotiations on hold
Country or bloc | Agreement being negotiated | Status |
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Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf States Шаблон:Flagu Шаблон:Flagu Шаблон:Flagu Шаблон:Flagu Шаблон:Flagu Шаблон:Flagu |
Free Trade Agreement | Negotiations started in 1990, suspended since 2008[83] |
Central Africa Шаблон:Flagu Шаблон:Flagu Шаблон:Flagu Шаблон:Flagu Шаблон:Flagu Шаблон:Flagu Шаблон:Flagu |
Economic Partnership Agreement | Negotiations started in 2003, paused until further notice in 2011[83] |
Eastern and Southern Africa States Шаблон:Flagu |
Economic Partnership Agreement | Negotiations started in 2004, paused until further notice in 2011[83] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Free Trade Agreement | Negotiations started in 2010, paused since 2012[83] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area | Negotiations started in 2013, on hold since 2014 at Morocco’s request[86] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Investment protection agreement | Negotiations launched in 2015[83] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Free Trade Agreement | Negotiations started in 2013, no negotiations scheduled since 2014 [83] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area | Negotiations launched in 2015, on hold since 2019[87] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership | Negotiations started in 2013, suspended since 2019[83] |
Obsolete agreements
Country or bloc | Agreement | Signed | Active | Obsolete |
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Шаблон:Flagu | SAA | 29 October 2001 | 1 March 2001 | 1 July 2013[88] |
Competence
The European Court of Justice has held that investor-state arbitration provisions (including a dedicated tribunal planned by some free trade agreements) falls under competency shared between European Union and its member states and that for this reason, the ratification of such mixed agreements[89] should be approved by the EU as well as by each of the union's member states.[90] This court decision has resulted in a new architecture of external trade negotiations which will have two components:[91]
- a free trade agreement - related exclusively to trade matters - which can be adopted at the EU level;
- an investment agreement - containing investment, arbitration and other non-trade provisions - which needs to be ratified by the member states as well.
Impact to consumers
One study found that the trade agreements that the EU implemented over the period 1993-2013 have, on average, increased the quality of imported goods by 7% and therefore "lowered quality-adjusted prices by close to 7%," without having much of an impact on the non-adjusted price.[92]
See also
- Economic Partnership Agreements
- EU-ACP
- EUR.1 movement certificate
- Euro-Mediterranean free trade area
- European Union Association Agreement
- Everything but Arms
- Free trade agreements of the United Kingdom
- Free trade area
- Free trade areas in Europe
- List of bilateral free trade agreements
- List of free trade agreements
- List of the largest trading partners of the European Union
- Trade deal negotiation between the UK and EU (2020)
- Trade defence instrument
- United States free trade agreements
Notes
References
External links
- Negotiations and agreements, EU trade relationships by country/region, European Commission
- Trade Flows, Animated infographics, European Parliamentary Research Service
- Articles on EU FTAs, at Agritrade
- The Transatlantic Colossus: Global Contributions to Broaden the Debate on the EU-US Free Trade Agreement A collaborative publication with over 20 articles on the global implications of the TAFTA | TTIP
- Koeth, Wolfgang (8 December 2014) "The Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements: an Appropriate Response by the EU to the Challenges in its Neighbourhood"?
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