Economic Incentives for Indirect TTIP Spillovers. CEPS Special Report No. 94/October 2014 [TTIP Series No. 2]

A deep, comprehensive and ambitious TTIP should not undermine or otherwise negatively affect the WTO and its signatories. Among other things, this means that trade diversion ought to be minimised and positive spillovers stimulated. The present CEPS Special Report provides some elementary quantification, which helps to understand the economic incentives for third countries to seek regulatory alignment with TTIP results, where relevant, and for which TTIP should be ‘open’. It focuses on ‘indirect’ spillovers and employs a rather aggregate economic approach. We find that, of three groups of countries that are important for trade with the EU and the US, the ‘closest’ neighbours (NAFTA, EEA, Switzerland and Turkey) exhibit powerful incentives to align so as to benefit from positive spillovers. This is less clear for two other groups. Of the (seven) ‘biggest traders’ (in manufactured goods, for which spillovers matter most), China turns out to have the greatest interest in alignment in selected sectors, followed by Israel, Japan and South Korea. Whereas the latter three either have or are negotiating FTAs with the US and the EU, precisely China has none and remains outside TPP as well. In terms of sectors, the chemical sector followed by electronic equipment are by far the most important, with agro-products and fish as a good third (SPS issues). However, in chemicals and electrical equipment, the TTIP negotiations so far, and recent US/EU regulatory cooperation, do not indicate an ambitious approach, which could reduce regulatory barriers to market access drastically.

Indirect fall-out from the June 2010 events in Kyrgyzstan: the case of Kara-Suu. EUCAM Commentary No. 14, June 2011

The Kyrgyz town of Kara-Suu lies on the border with Uzbekistan, some 25 kilometres from Osh, the city most affected by the conflict between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks on 10-17 June 2010. With a population of around 21,000, of which 67% are ethnic Uzbek, Kara-Suu also serves as the administrative centre of the Kara-Suu district, which includes the village of Nariman, with a predominantly Uzbek population and notorious as the scene of several high-profile and brutal murders, as well as suburbs of Osh.

Contaminants associated with direct and indirect reuse of municipal wastewater /

Contract 68-02-2257.

Methodology for assessing health risks associated with indirect exposure to combustor emissions : interim final.

Mode of access: Internet.

University research: effect of indirect cost revisions and options for future changes.

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Driver exposure - indirect approach for obtaining relative measures.

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Federal research: advanced technology program's indirect cost rates and program evaluation status.

Mode of access: Internet.

Fundamentals of diffusional bonding...

"Contract AT(30-1) 2102."

Solid state bonding of aluminum and nickel /

"Contract AT-30-1-GEN-366."

Process development for making SM-1 instrumented fuel plates by gas-pressure bonding /

"Contract No. W-7405-eng-92."