An essential reader and reference tool for trade experts and interested parties, bringing together key analysis on all aspects of trade negotiations between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states and the European Union. This publication is comprised of two volumes.

VOLUME 1 Foreword Lingston Cumberbatch, Chairman, European Centre for Development Policy Management List of Acronyms About the Contributors I Introduction 1 EPAs Make Sense Only if they Foster Development: A Broad Overview Sanoussi Bilal and Roman Grynberg II Background 2 From Lome to Cotonou: Business as Usual? Olufemi Babarinde and Gerrit Faber 3 Towards Greater Flexibility in Article XXIV of GATT 1994 in the Context of Reciprocal Trade Agreements between ACP States and the EU Bonpas Onguglo 4 Preparing for EPAs: Creating ACP Offensive and Defensive Agendas Christopher Stevens and Jane Kennan III The Development Dimension and Preferences in ACP-EU Relations 5 The EPAs and Sustainable Development: Benchmarks for Pro-Development Monitoring of the Negotiations ICTSD and APRODEV 6 Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and SSA: Risks, Rewards and Alternatives Lawrence E. Hinkle and Richard S. Newfarmer 7 For Richer or Poorer: Transforming Economic Partnership Agreements between Europe and Africa Christian Aid 8 Preference-dependent Economies in the Doha Round: Impacts and Options Roman Grynberg and Sacha Silva 9 CSP Reform: A Longer Term Strategy (with Special Reference to the ACP) Christopher Stevens and Jane Kennan 10 EU Assistance to ACP Countries Since 1975 Paul Goodison 11 An Analysis of EU-ACP Aid Flows Through the EDF from Lome I to the Cotonou Agreement and Proposals for the 10th and 11th EDFs Alice Clarke 12 An Assessment of the Overall Implementation and Adjustment Costs for the ACP Countries of Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU Chris Milner 13 A Strong Cocktail or a Weak Punch? A Case Study of EDF Assistance to the ACP Private Sector Adam Dunlop 14 In Defence of the ACP Submission on Special and Differential Treatment in GATT Article XXIV Bonapas Onguglo and Taisuke Ito IV Market Access 15 Rules of Origin under EPAs: Key Issues and New Directions Eckart Naumann 16 WTO/EPA Negotiations: For a Better Coordination of ACP Positions on Agriculture Arlene Alpha, Benoit Faucheux, Benedicte Hermelin and Vincent Fautrel 17 ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Martin Doherty 18 Overview of the EU Policies on Key ACP Commodities CTA 19 Reform of EU Export Subsidies on Sugar: The Legal and Economic Implications for the ACP Countries Roman Grynberg, Chris Milner, Wyn Morgan and Evious Zgovu 20 EBA-equivalence for non-LDC Sugar Exporters? Chris Milner 21 Financing Diversification in ACP Sugar-Exporting Countries Edwin Laurent 22 Small States in the Banana Dispute and the Lessons to be Learnt from their Experience Edwin Laurent VOLUME 2 V Fisheries Partnerships 23 ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements: Fisheries CFFA - Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements 24 EU Rule of Origin for ACP Tuna Products Lindsey Block and Ronan Grynberg VI Services 25 The Development Dimension of Services Negotiations in the Cotonou Partnership Agreement Dirk Willem te Velde 26 Tourism Services Negotiations Issues: Implications for Cariforum Countries Adam Dunlop VII Investment 27 A Southern Agenda on Investment? Promoting Development with Balanced Rights and Obligations for Investors, Host States and Home States Howard Mann and Konrad von Moltke 28 The European Investment Bank and the ACP Countries: An Effective Partnership? Sacha Silva VIII Regional Perspectives 29 Negotiating an Economic Partnership Agreement for Eastern and Southern Africa Mark Pearson 30 The Impact of Economic Partnership Agreement Negotiations on Southern Africa Talitha Bertelsmann-Scott 31 The Impact of ACP-EU EPAs on ECOWAS Countries: An Empirical Analysis of the Trade and Budget Effects Mathias Bussee, Axel Borrmann and Harold Grossman 32 Negotiating an EU-Central Africa EPA: A Brief Overview Nicolas Gerard and Francesco Rampa 33 The Negotiations of an ECOWAS-EU EPA: Key Features Nicolas Gerard and Sanoussi Bilal 34 A Caribbean-EU EPA: Towards an Enhanced Partnership? Junior Lodge and Sanoussi Bilal 35 A Development Agenda for the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the Pacific ACP (PACP): A Concept Paper Roman Grynberg and Bonapas Onguglo 36 The Private Sector's Perspective, Priorities and Role in Regional Integration and Implications for Regional Trade Arrangements Nick Charalambides IX ACP Capacity Development and EPAs 37 Coercion or Engagement? Economics and Institutions in ACP-EU Trade Negotiations Stefan Szepesi 38 Talking Trade: Practical Insights on the Capacity to Conduct Trade Negotiations Sanoussi Bilal, Geert Laporte and Stefan Szepesi