The Trade Tool Box

What it does:

This Trade Tool Box provides a snap-shot of the available tools for addressing economic relations.

How it works:

Each row addresses specific issues such as market access, intellectual property, subsidies, transparency and each column has a corresponding tool that can be used to address that issue. Each cell has examples for each tool and corresponding links.

Tools

Issues

Multilateral

Direct Negotiations

 National Unilateral mechanisms

Dialogues/

Meetings

Information Sharing

Impact via International ‘public

Global Norm Setting

EU

Market Access

Yes

BITs

FTA

Tariffs

Postponing new legislation

EU-US-Japan

No

Yes

Yes

IPR

Litigation

DSM

BITs

Patent

Working Group on IPR

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Subsidies

WTO reform DSM

Agriculture

SOEs

Antidumping

WTO reform

Yes

Yes

SOE subsidies

Yes

Transparency

WTO reforms

BIT

FTA

BIT

No

Yes

Yes

FTA

Yes

Competition Policy

WTO

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Domestic Policy changes

FTA  

DG Competition

National Security

WTO NC exemption clauses

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Investment Screening