In March 2013, the EU and Japan launched negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA). The EU also …. Striking is, however, the outstanding pace of the new trade deals among traditional trading powers. Our paper addresses the … trade relations. It concludes that the recent push for FTAs by the big trading powers is a rapid means of mutual market …

protectionism as expected. Nevertheless, numerous countries have adjusted their trade policies during the financial crisis to … incidence of the newly introduced trade restrictive measures. Starting from a brief overview of the current situation in the … global economy, the paper highlights the main trends in the recent evolution of trade protectionism. It takes stock of the …

negative shock to the global economy that is comparable with the Great Depression of the 1930s. International trade suffered a … historical collapse in 2009, but trade flows quickly rebounded thereafter. And unlike the Great Depression of the 1930s, the … in many countries’ trade policies during the crisis and, hence, a quite notable increase in the incidence of …

latest and most relevant developments and highlight the prospects for global trade governance. The focus is on three major … regional trade agreements (RTAs) and their wider impact; and (3) the positive results of continued unilateral trade …, despite improved prospects for multilateral trade liberalization following the last WTO Ministerial Conference, the world …