120-0314/09 – EU Trade Policy (SOPEU)
| Gurantor department | Department of International Economic Relations | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Lenka Fojtíková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Lenka Fojtíková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2017/2018 | Year of cancellation | 2021/2022 |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
1. To explain differencies between intra and extra EU trade.
2. To formulate a principle of the concept "common policy" in the area of trade relations of the EU with third countries.
3. To categorise trade relations of the EU with third countries.
4. To arrange the preferential trade relations of the EU.
5. To assess the actual position of the EU in the world trade.
6. To assess a character of the EU trade policy and to compare it with the trade policy of the USA and other selected countries.
7. To conclude initiatives of the EU in the WTO frame.
8. To predict future direction of the EU trade policy.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Summary
The course is focused on the EU trade relations with third countries. These relations are managed by the Common Commercial Policy of the EU. The students will take up with current development in the world trade and the position of the EU in the world exports and imports in the area of merchandise trade and commercial services. In the next part of the course, the students will be informed about the WTO and the EU position to the multilateral trade liberalisation. The course includes the autonomus and convensional measures of the EU trade policy and the trade disputes issues, their solving in the WTO as well as the using of trade defence instruments.In the end, the trade policy of the Czech Republic in 1990s is introduces and application of the EU trade policy after its entrance into the EU. The main aim ofcourse is to analyze the impact of trade measures on the trade relations of the EU with third countries.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Seminars:
- seminar thesis, PowerPoint presentation,
- other activities.
E-learning
Other requirements
Participation on the lectures and seminars.
Discussion on selected topics.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Outline of Course:
1. Introduction to the course. World trade development.
2. Position of the EU in the world trade (extra + intra-EU trade).
3. Common Commercial Policy of the EU - a principle, objects and development. Institutional and legal frames of the Common Commercial Policy. Customs Policy.
4. EU Trade Strategy. Market Access Database.
5. EU Trade Policy in the WTO. Multilateral trading system from the GATT to the WTO, objects and principles.
6.Autonomous trade-policy instruments in the EU (tariffs and non-tariff measures). The TARIC system.
7.Conventional measures of the EU trade policy. Bialteral (regional) and multilateral trade agreements.
8. Preferential system of the EU - principle and forms of preferences. The autonomous preferences of the EU. Rules of origin.
9. Non-Preferential system.Trade relations of the EU with the main trading partners.
10. Trade defence instruments – antidumping, countervailing duties and safequards.Trade Barriers Regulation in the EU
11.Trade disputes of the EU with third countries. Dispute settlement in the WTO.
12. Czech external trade policy in transformation period (1990s). Impacts of the Czech entrance to the EU on external trade.
13. Czech trade strategy in the EU.
14. Proexport policy of the Czech Republic - forms, instruments of export support. Export strategies.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction