US and EU External Labor Governance

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The Intricacies of Firms’ Support for Labor Provisions in US Trade Agreements

“…And given the global trade and labor governance implications of labor provisions in PTAs (i.e. Carrere et al, 2017; Oehri, 2017), that is not a trivial task. However, the position of firms on trade–labor linkage is not straightforward and there are puzzles that need to be solved.…”

Preferential Trade Agreements and Civil Society Restrictions: Empirical Evidence from Gravity Model

“…One such example representing civil society in the trade policy process is Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (Velut, 2016). Trade agreements provide unique provisions that allow civil society to organize freely in member states and can present public complaints against the rights violations occurring in trade partners (Oehri, 2017). However, recently we have seen that the rise in the civil society in the state that economically opened to the world is in decline.…”