Publications from 2016 and older

Here you will find publications from August 2016 and older. The publications are sorted by subject. If you are interested in a publication that is not linked here, you are welcome to request it from our registry clerk.

EU free trade agreements and other trade agreements

• The EU’s and the US’s Preferential Arrangements – a Comparison (2012)

Brexit and the EU-UK trade agreement

• The UK policy paper on the future relationship with the EU: An analysis of the proposals (2018)
• Brexit and financial services: Summary (2018)
• Brexit - options for a future regulatory frameworkfor trade in services and customs and trade procedures between the EU and the UK (2017)

CETA – the EU free trade agreement with Canada

• “The Right to Regulate” in the Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada – and its implications for the Agreement with the USA (2015) 

TTIP – negotiations EU–USA about a free trade agreement

• How TTIP can Address Technical Barriers to Trade – an Introduction (2015)
• Regulatory Co-operation and Technical Barriers to Trade within Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (2015)
• From Competition to Convergence – TTIP and the Evolution of Global Standards (2015)
• Potential Effects from an EU–US Free Trade Agreement – Sweden in Focus (2012)

Sustainability goals

• Possible tools for strengthened implementation of sustainable development provisions in FTA´s (2017)
• Implementation and enforcement of sustainable development provisions in free trade agreements – options for improvement (2016)

Environment and climate goals

• Making Green Trade Happen – Environmental Goods and Indispensable Services (2014)
• Targeting the Environment – exploring a New Trend in the EU’s Trade Defence Investigations (2013)
• Practical Aspects of Border Carbon Adjustment Measures – Using a Trade Facilitation Perspective to Assess Trade Costs (2010)
• Climate Measures and Trade - Legal and Economic Aspects of Border Carbon Adjustment (2009)

Social goals

• Gender impacts of international trade and trade policy – a case study of the FTA between Korea and the EU (2011)

Sweden´s foreign trade

• The relationship between international trade and foreign direct investments for Swedish multinational enterprises (2008)
• What are the Barriers to Sweden's Foreign Trade? An Analysis of an Interview Survey of Swedish Companies (2011)

Protectionism

• Europe Fettered: The impact of crisis-era trade distortions on exports from the European Union(2017)
• Open Trade or Protectionism? Developments in trade policy since 1995 (2009)

Regulation 

• Trade Regulation in a 3D Printed World – a Primer (2016)

Global value chains

• Trade is Essential for Jobs - a Value Chain Perspective for Sweden (2015)
• Global Value Chains and Trade Negotiations (2015)
• Global Value Chains and Developing Countries - An Introduction (2013)
• Minecraft Brick by Brick – a Case Study of a Global Services Value Chain (2013)
• Global Value Chains and Services – an Introduction (2013)

Trade Defence Instruments

• Preventing Global Value Chains in Renewable Energy – The Use of Non-Preferential Rules of Origin as an Indirect Trade Policy Instrument in the EU (2015)
• Eliminating Anti-Dumping Measures in Regional Trade Agreements – the European Union Example (2013)
• Effects on Trade and Competition of Abolishing Anti-Dumping Measures - The European Union Experience (2013)
• Do EU Producers and the EU Economy Really Benefit from Anti-Dumping Policy? (2012)
• Global Value Chains in EU Anti-Dumping Practice – the Economic Impact of Anti-Dumping Duties on Intermediate Goods and the “Union Interest Test” (2012)
• Anti-Dumping or Unjustified Protection? – the EU Anti-Dumping Duties on Ceramic Tiles (2012)
• Dumping or Competition? – the EU Anti-Dumping Duties on Ceramic Tiles (2012)
• Paving the Way for Unfair Competition – the Imposition of EU Anti-Dumping Duties on Ceramic Tiles from China (2012)
• Adding Value to the European Economy – How Anti-Dumping can Damage the Supply Chains of Globalised European Companies. Five Case Studies from the Shoe Industry (2012)

EU internal market – free movement

• Economic Effects of the European Single Market - Review of the Empirical Literature (2015)
• Single Market, Four Freedoms, Sixteen Facts – Economic Effects in the EU (2015)
• Easier to sell products with the EU's contact points (2013)
• Provide services with EU’s points of single contact (2013)
• The Internal Market in a Global Context (2012)
• Measures For a Better Functioning Internal Market (2012)

E-commerce

• Online Trade, Offline Rules - A Review of Barriers to e-commerce in the EU (2015)
• E-commerce – New Opportunities, New Barriers – a survey of e-commerce barriers in countries outside the EU (2012)

Free movement of persons

• Trade Costs of Visas and Work Permits – a Trade Facilitation Perspective on Movement of Persons (2015)
• How Cross-Border Movement of Persons Facilitates Trade (2015)
• Making Trade Happen – Business Perspectives on Cross-Border movement of persons (2013)

Data

• No Transfer, No Trade: The Importance of Cross-Border Data Transfers for Companies Based in Sweden (2014)
• No Transfer, No Production – a Report on Cross-border Data (2015)

Services

• Everybody is in Services – The Impact of Servicification in Manufacturing on Trade and Trade Policy (2012)
• At your service – The Importance of Services for Manufacturing Companies and Possible Trade Policy Implications (2010)
• Servicification of Swedish Manufacturing (2010)
• Just Add Services – a case study on servicification and the agri-food sector (2013)
• Handling Services Trade Policy – the Swedish Experience (2012)

WTO

• Economic Implications of the Doha Round (2006)
• How Can the Doha Negotiations Promote Development? (2005)
• Consequences of the WTO Agreements for Developing Countries (2004)

Bilateral Investment

• Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) – how they work (2013)

Animal and plant health measures (SPS)

• New Trade Facilitation obligations in the SPS area (2017)
• Case story: Direct imports of Ethiopian roses to Sweden (2017)
• Sweden’s Work with SPS-related Export Barriers – A guide for Swedish Embassies on exports of processed food and agricultural products (2012)

Rules of origin

• The Impact of Rules of Origin on Trade – a Comparison of the EU’s and the US’s Rules for the Textile and Clothing Sector (2012)

Intellectual Property Rights

• The WTO decision on compulsory licensing (2008)

Trade facilitation

• Mutual Recognition of AEO Programmes. Supply Chain Security and Trade Facilitation – Progress Report Fall 2010
• Trade Facilitation – a Developing Country Issue (2003)
• Trade Facilitation - Impact and Potential Gains (2002)

The Cloud

• How Borderless is the Cloud? An introduction to cloud computing (2012)