Potential Benefits of an Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement

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Key Issues and Options

edited by Jane Drake-Brockman and Patrick Messerlin

FREE | 2018 | Ebook (PDF) |听978-1-925261-60-8 | 350 pp

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    Preface
    Jane Drake-Brockman and Patrick Messerlin
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    Part 1: Australia, Europe, Asia: Evolving Commercial Diplomacy

    1. Australia and the European Union: A Brief Commercial History
    Gonzalo Villalta Puig
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    2. An Australian Perspective on the Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement
    Jane Drake-Brockman
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    3. A European Perspective on the Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement
    Patrick Messerlin and Jimmyn Parc
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    4. What Difference does Brexit Make?
    L. Alan Winters
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    5. How might the Trans-Pacific Partnership Affect the Game?
    Yose Rizal Damuri
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    6. Limits to European Union Negotiating Competence
    Pascal Kerneis
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    Part 2: 21st Century Bilateral Negotiating Challenges

    7. Global Value Chains
    Richard Pomfret and Patricia Sourdin
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    8. Government Procurement
    Bernard Hoekman
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    9. Regulatory Cooperation
    Peter Mumford
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    10. Agriculture and Food Trade Policy
    Kym Anderson, AC
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    11. Foreign Investment and Innovation
    Shandre Thangavelu and Christopher Findlay
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    Part 3: Services in the Digital Age

    12. E-Commerce and Digital Trade
    Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
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    13. Audio-visual Services
    Jimmyn Parc and Patrick Messerlin
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    14. Professional Services
    Pascal Kerneis
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    15. Financial Services
    John Cooke
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    Part 4: Where to on Investor-State Dispute Settlement?

    16. Investor-State Dispute Settlement
    Julien Chaisse and Yves Renouf
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Since听June 2018听Australia and the European Union have been negotiating a听Free Trade Agreement. This book offers insights from recognised experts in the field, from Australia, Europe and Asia, on the potential economic benefits to be reaped from greater economic openness. It addresses issues of direct relevance to both negotiating teams as well as policy makers, academics, and business leaders across Australia and the European Union.听

The book covers 21st century topics such as regulatory cooperation, global value chain connectivity and digital trade. Professional services, audiovisual services, financial services, investment, investor-state dispute settlement and government procurement are explored in depth; as is agriculture and food.