Nowadays, trade negotiations afford both liberalism- and protectionism-oriented policies. Indeed, in recent decades, the developed countries have been actively engaged in negotiating many preferential agreements to integrate developing countries (DCs) into world trade and encourage their...

Since the post war period, the EU Common Commercial Policy (CCP) has moved in two directions mainly through Preferential Trade agreement (PTAs): a deeper (internal) trade integration process intended to reinforce trade relations among European countries (i.e. Custom Union, Single Market,...

Since the post war period, the EU Common Commercial Policy (CCP) has moved in twodirections mainly through Preferential Trade agreements (PTAs): a deeper (internal) trade integrationprocess intended to reinforce trade relations among European countries (i.e. CustomUnion, Single Market, European...

This paper deals with the EU's trade policy with two objectives: on the one hand, we study the performance of EU's preferential agreements in granting their partners improved market access; on the other hand, we assess the extent to which domestic sectors are effectively protected. As far as the...