Terminated in academic year 2010/2011

EU Trade Policy

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	120-0314/04
Abbreviation	SOPEU
Course title	EU Trade Policy
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of International Economic Relations
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Lenka Fojtíková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Outline of Course:
1. World trade development. Position of the EU in the world trade (extra + intra-EU trade).
2. Common Commercial Policy of the EU - a principle, objects and development. Institutional and legal frames of the Common Commercial Policy. Customs Policy.
3. EU Trade Strategy. Market Access Database.
4. Autonomous trade-policy instruments in the EU (tariffs and non-tariff measures). The TARIC system.
5. Conventional measures of the EU trade policy. Bialteral (regional) and multilateral trade agreements.
6. EU Trade Policy in the WTO. Multilateral trading system from the GATT to the WTO, objects and principles.
7. Preferential system of the EU - principle and forms of preferences. The autonomous preferences of the EU. Rules of origin.
8. Non-Preferential system.Trade relations of the EU with the main trading partners.
9. Trade defence instruments – antidumping, countervailing duties and safequards.Trade Barriers Regulation in the EU
10.Trade disputes of the EU with third countries. Dispute settlement in the WTO.
11. Czech external trade policy in transformation period (1990s). Impacts of the Czech entrance to the EU on external trade.
12. Czech trade strategy in the EU. Priorities of the Czech presidency in the EU in 2009 in the trade area.
13. Proexport policy of the Czech Republic - forms, instruments of export support. Export strategies.
14.Credit Hour

Literature

BENEDICTIS, Luca de a Luca SALVATICI. The Trade Impact of European Union Preferential Policies. London: Springer, 2011. 229 s. ISBN 978-3-642-16563-4.
FOJTÍKOVÁ, Lenka a kol. Postavení Evropské unie v podmínkách globalizované světové ekonomiky. Ostrava: VŠB-TU, 2014. 364 s. ISBN 978-80-248-3333-0.
FOJTÍKOVÁ, Lenka. Zahraničně obchodní politika ČR. Historie a současnost (1945-2008). Praha: C. H. Beck, 2009. 246 s. ISBN 978-80-7400-128-4.

Advised literature

CIHELKOVÁ, Eva et al. Vnější ekonomické vztahy EU. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2003. 709 s. ISBN 80-7179-804-5.
DVOŘÁK, Pavel. Základy mezinárodní obchodní politiky. Praha: VŠE, 2001. 221 s. ISBN 80-7079-658-8.
ELSIG, Manfred. The EU´s Common Commercial Policy. Hampshire Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002. 196 s.
ISBN 075463227X.
FOJTÍKOVÁ, Lenka a Marian LEBIEDZIK. Společné politiky EU. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2008. 179 s.
ISBN 978-80-7179-939-9.
KEER, W. A. a J. D. GAISFORD. Handbook on International Trade Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Lim., 2007. 543 s. ISBN 978-1-84376-939-2.
ŠTĚRBOVÁ, Ludmila. Impacts of the Lisbon Treaty on the EU Trade Policy. In: The Proceedings of E-Leader Budapest , 2010 [online]. Budapešť: CASA, 2010 [cit. 2012-11-02]. Dostupné z http://www.g-casa.com/conferences/budapest/papers/Sterbova.pdf

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