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EU Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments: Revisiting the Consultation Process

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  • Bernard Hoekman
  • Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
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Trade sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) are the main tool used by the European Commission to assess the potential effects of trade policy initiatives and to engage with stakeholders. SIAs have two elements: a model-based quantitative analysis and a consultation process (CP). Both include a focus on a broad range of non-trade issues, many of which are included in sustainable development chapters of EU trade agreements. This paper argues for making CPs a more useful input into the design of trade cooperation. Scaled responses to a survey with closed end questions on a broad range of non-trade policy objectives combined with deliberative polling of a representative sample of survey respondents could help identify what stakeholders in the EU and partner countries perceive to be priority non-trade objectives, as well as issue-specific baselines, performance targets, and appropriate instruments to apply. Building bridges between a revamped ex ante CP and mechanisms that encompass public and private actors to support implementation, resolve problems, and assess progress over time could further help achieve trade and sustainable development goals.

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  • Bernard Hoekman & Hugo Rojas-Romagosa, 2022. "EU Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments: Revisiting the Consultation Process," Journal of International Economic Law, Oxford University Press, vol. 25(1), pages 45-60.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:jieclw:v:25:y:2022:i:1:p:45-60.
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    1. Francois, Joseph & Hoekman, Bernard & Manchin, Miriam, 2022. "Pursuing Environmental and Social Objectives through Trade Agreements," Papers 1377, World Trade Institute.
    2. Giovanni Esposito & Lorenzo Cicatiello & Vincent Mabillard & Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, 2024. "Evaluating transparency policy in Belgium: A citizen science assessment of FOI implementation at the municipal level," Working Papers CEB 24-011, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    3. Alexandra Molitorisová & Ciarán Burke, 2023. "Farm to fork strategy: Animal welfare, EU trade policy, and public participation," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 45(2), pages 881-910, June.

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    JEL classification:

    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • J88 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Public Policy
    • O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development

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