Report

Trade and Welfare Effects of New Trade Policy Instruments

Yvonne Wolfmayr, Elisabeth Christen, Hendrik Mahlkow, Birgit Meyer, Michael Pfaffermayr
2024
#EU / Western Europe
#Social and working conditions
#Sustainability standards
#Corporate responsibility and lead firms

Geoeconomic concepts are gaining importance in EU trade policy. In this context new trade policy instruments are designed to protect the internal market against unfair trade practices, coercive actions as well as to ensure sustainable supply chains and the protection of human rights. The study extensively overviews seven policy instruments: Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI), Enforcement Regulation (ER), International Procurement Instrument (IPI), Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD), Level Playing Field Provisions in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (LPF), and EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR). Using gravity models and a quantitative general equilibrium trade model, the impact of the selected trade policy instruments on trade and welfare of the EU as well as Austria is estimated based on different scenarios.

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Birgit Meyer

WIFO

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