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EU Unilateral Trade Policy‐Making: What Role for Import‐Dependent Firms?
Author(s) -
Eckhardt Jappe
Publication year - 2013
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/jcms.12059
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , context (archaeology) , international trade , international economics , politics , economics , commercial policy , political science , law , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , biology
This article looks at political mobilization and the influence of import‐dependent firms in the context of the E uropean U nion's ( EU ) trade defence instrument ( TDI ) policy. By looking at this increasingly relevant set of economic actors during (unilateral) TDI decision‐making, the article provides a much needed complement to the existing EU trade policy literature, which is dominated by analyses of the trade policy preferences and involvement of import‐competing and export‐dependent firms during multilateral and bilateral trade co‐operation. The article defines import‐dependent firms and theorizes the circumstances under which they are capable of lobbying and of wielding influence in EU TDI cases. The argument is discussed with case study evidence drawn from a series of recent EU TDI episodes.