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EU Trade Policy as Protection for Exporters: The Agreements with Mexico and Chile *
Author(s) -
DÜR ANDREAS
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00750.x
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , international trade , international economics , market access , commercial policy , business , rules of origin , economics , geography , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , agriculture
Recently, the EU concluded trade agreements with emerging markets in different regions of the world. What explains the EU's pursuit of these agreements? I present an argument that suggests that exporters in the EU mobilize in response to discrimination abroad and push the EU to conclude trade agreements to protect their foreign market access. In two case studies, I show that this protection‐for‐exporters argument offers a plausible account for the EU's agreements with Mexico and Chile.