Abstract
This chapter surveys the current state of European Union (EU) international trade policy and asks where it is going. Embedded in the latter is also a view about where it should go. By the standards of most countries, EU trade policy is pretty open, but it is not as open as is frequently thought. Moreover, EU institutions for making trade policy and the use of trade policy for tasks other than simply fostering economic welfare raise a doubt about whether, despite its liberal rhetoric, the EU will actually be able fundamentally to open trade.
I am grateful to Béatrice Harrison and Shoshana Ormonde for logistical assistance, and to Carl Hamilton, Christopher Stevens and Helen Wallace for excellent comments on an earlier draft. None of them should be held responsible for the chapter’s remaining short-comings.
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Winters, L.A. (2001). European Union Trade Policy: Actually or Just Nominally Liberal?. In: Wallace, H. (eds) Interlocking Dimensions of European Integration. One Europe or Several?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230514430_2
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