The study (hereafter referred to as study 1) is organised in two parts. The first part of study 1 will consider the pattern of trade and investment between the EU, EFTA/CH, the USA, Japan and Singapore, henceforth the core entities, on the one hand and their existing and envisaged FTA partners in Asia, North Africa, the Gulf states and Latin America on the other.
The second part of study 1 will consider the general question of whether there is a general over arching strategy in the use of FTAs and the more specific concrete question of how the parties concerned use FTAs in any given policy area (i.e. reduction of tariffs on goods (agriculture and industry), foreign direct investment, market access for cross border provision of services, intellectual property rights and the movement of natural persons).
