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Is there a reason why the EU doesn't pursue a FTA with each individual ASEAN country instead of a region-region agreement?
It's not an either-or. ASEAN doesn't prevent members from negotiating FTAs on their own. For example Vietnam is a member of ASEAN but they also have an FTA with the EU.
In fact the EU itself tells the ...
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What are some roadblocks preventing a free trade agreement between the EU and the US?
There were a lot of stumbling blocks and hurdles with TTIP, but here are two major ones:
In 2016, the United States elected a President who ran on a platform of Isolationism and Protectionism, and had ...
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What are some roadblocks preventing a free trade agreement between the EU and the US?
Part of the answer was public sentiment. A few currents of public opinion converged here:
The European political left is traditionally anti-American, and much of the moderate populace is America-...
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What are some roadblocks preventing a free trade agreement between the EU and the US?
First you can see the lengthly TTIP negotiations as proof that the US and the EU were definitely trying to get a free trade agreement. Here are a few points that made getting a free trade agreement ...
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