EU Trade Policy

The course is focused on the EU trade relations with third countries. These relations are managed by the Common Commercial Policy of the EU. The students will take up with current development in the world trade and the position of the EU in the world exports and imports in the area of merchandise trade and commercial services. In the next part of the course, the students will be informed about the WTO and the EU position to the multilateral trade liberalisation. The course includes the autonomus and convensional measures of the EU trade policy and the trade disputes issues, their solving in the WTO as well as the using of trade defence instruments.In the end, the trade policy of the Czech Republic in 1990s is introduces and application of the EU trade policy after its entrance into the EU. The main aim ofcourse is to analyze the impact of trade measures on the trade relations of the EU with third countries.