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UE już od lat odchodzi od wytwarzania pracochłonnych produktów o niskiej wartości, aby wyspecjalizować się w produkcji towarów markowych o wyższej wartości. Przy jej otwartej gospodarce handel ma dla UE kluczowe znaczenie. W celu pokonania barier w handlu oraz wyrównania szans dla przedsiębiorstw działających na jej rynku Unia negocjuje obecnie szereg umów o wolnym handlu. UE jest także jednym z założycieli Światowej Organizacji Handlu (WTO), w której odgrywa zasadniczą rolę.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), signed in February 2016 by the representatives of its 12 member countries, is a comprehensive regional agreement dealing with a wide range of trade and trade-related issues. In January 2017, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the TPP, making it impossible for the agreement, as it is currently drafted, to take effect. Despite the US withdrawal, the remaining TPP participating countries are determined to salvage the benefits of the agreement, ...

Stosowana od 2011 r. umowa o wolnym handlu między UE a Koreą Południową weszła w życie w grudniu 2015 r. Umowa zdecydowanie ożywiła wymianę handlową między UE a Koreą Południową. W maju 2017 r. Parlament Europejski ma przyjąć sprawozdanie w sprawie pięciu lat stosowania umowy o wolnym handlu.

Critics of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran have warned that Iran would use any financial benefits to further strengthen its influence in the region, by supporting its allies, which include important Shia militias in Iraq. While the nuclear deal has yet to translate into major economic and financial benefits for Iran, any requests for extra resources to support foreign allies will also have to compete with the Iranian government's many other – domestic – priorities. Moreover, the potential long-term ...

The EU's trade and economic relations with China, the global leader in trade, are generally good, and the number of disputes reasonable. Yet the EU is dissatisfied with China's reluctance to fully implement its commitments to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and, more generally, with its protectionist measures, which often hurt EU interests. For its part, Beijing is still dissatisfied with the EU's refusal to grant the country 'market economy' status and with other measures it believes limit China's ...

Trade between the EU and Russia has decreased due to the difficult context (tensions over Ukraine, long-standing trade barriers, sanctions and counter-sanctions, recession in Russia), but remains substantial.

Negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the EU and India – two of the world’s four largest economies, with more than 1.7 billion people altogether – were launched in June 2007 and continue today. This paper aims to show levels of trade between the two. It looks at the trade in goods from both Indian and EU points of view, to measure the importance of EU trade for India and vice versa. It also looks at trade in services and foreign direct investment (FDI) in both directions. Indicators ...