Since January 2014 China and the European Union (EU) have been negotiating a comprehensive bilateral investment … negotiations between China and the EU have received little public attention so far. Still, a successful conclusion of these … negotiations may be of great importance even beyond the EU-China investment relations. This holds in at least two respects. Firstly …

The US-China Economic and Trade Agreement (ETA) entered into force on 14th February 2020, marking a new phase in their … trade diversion effects and market share shifts for China's top trading partners. In manufacturing, Germany is likely to …) and industrial machinery (-0.72 bn USD). Moreover, developing countries will be hit if China re-directs its imports …

The authors analyze the economic consequences of the Economic and Trade Agreement (ETA) between China and the USA, also … referred to as the Phase-I Deal, which was signed on January 15, 2020. It is a highly asymmetric treaty which commits China to … baseline. The authors show that compared to a 2021 benchmark without a US-China trade war and without the ETA, the EU is likely …

growing dependence on Asian suppliers and the colliding political and ideological systems between China and the West …. Unilateral decoupling of the EU from China (a doubling of trade costs) would reduce real income in the EU on average by 0 ….8 percent. In terms of GDP in 2019, this equals a permanent loss in real income of 131.4 bn EUR. Should China retaliate, real …