The Limits of Traditional Bargaining under Deep Integration
TTIP Stumbling over Technical Barriers to Trade
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6280693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Bürbaumer (0000-0002-7674-8109, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Villetaneuse, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1069-1085 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jcms.13165 |
| OpenAlex | W3116965733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 46 |
Removing so‐called technical barriers to trade is a critical aspect of contemporary deep integration trade agreements. Yet, these barriers – standards, regulations, conformity assessment procedures – form a set of institutional complementarities, named technical infrastructure, which performs a central role for the functioning of integrated markets. Drawing on evidence from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) the paper illustrates that this contradiction reduced the negotiators' bargaining leeway. Changing a technical infrastructure comes at the risk of undermining its effectiveness. Therefore, each party could only offer an unacceptable compromise: Transforming the other's technical infrastructure towards one's own technical infrastructure
Business · Compromise · Conformity · Conformity assessment · Contradiction · Deep integration · Economics · European union · General partnership · Industrial organization · International economics · International trade · Investment (military · Operations management · Political science · Technical barriers to trade · Technical standard · Trade barrier · Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership · Finance · Global trade and economics · International Arbitration and Investment Law · Law · World Trade Organization Law
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |