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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

EU Trade Policy

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 120-0514/01
Abbreviation EU TP
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.Introduction to the course. World trade development.
2.The position of the EU in the world trade (extra + intra-EU trade).
3.The extra-EU trade and the implementation of the Common Commercial Policy of the EU.
4.The EU trade strategy.
5.Multilateral trading system and the World Trade Organization. The position of the EU in the WTO.
6.The autonomous trade-policy instruments of the EU (tariffs and non-tariff measures).
7.The conventional measures of the EU trade policy. Regional trade agreements.
8.Preferential system. The application of the autonomous preferences in the EU.
9.Non-preferential system. The trade relations of the EU with the main trading partners on the basis of the most-favoured nation.
10.Trade defence instruments – antidumping, countervailing duties and safequards.
11.Trade Barriers Regulation in the EU and trade disputes settlement in the WTO.
12.The history of the Czech trade policy before its entrance into the EU. The apllication of the EU trade policy in the Czech Republic.
13.The external trade support in the EU and the Czech Republic. The Czech export strategy.
14.Conclusion, discussion to the trade topic.

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.
DABROWSKI, Marek a Maryla MALISZEWSKA. EU Eastern Neighborhood. New York: Springer, 2011. 200 s. ISBN 978-3-642-21092-1.
FOJTÍKOVÁ, Lenka. EU Trade Policy. Studijní opora financována z prostředků MŠMT. 2013.
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

Advised literature

BROWN, Sherrod. Myths of Free Trade. New York: The New Press, 2006. 245 s. ISBN 13: 978-1-59558-124-2.
ELSIG, Manfred. The EU´s Common Commercial Policy. Hampshire Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002. 196 s.
ISBN 075463227X.
VOLKER, Edmont L. M. Barriers to External and Internal Community Trade. Deventer: Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, 1993. 230 s. ISBN 90 6544 704 0.
Web-sites:
EC. DG Trade [online]. See http://ec.europa.eu/trade/index_en.htm
MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE. The Czech Republic [online]. See http://www.mpo.cz/default_en.html
WTO [online]. See www.wto.org