Government Procurement in the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: A Global Beachhead for Market Access and Good Governance

The US and the EU are negotiating a comprehensive Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The main purposes of the agreement are to stimulate economic growth and employment, to facilitate trade and investment and raise competitiveness on both sides of the Atlantic. The US and EU are the biggest trade and investment partners for each other, as well as most important partners for a number of other countries. The Trans-Atlantic free trade agreement would not only facilitate bilateral cooperation, but has a potential to set up new, more advanced international trade and investment rules and practices. The agreement is aimed, among other point, at resolving some of the existing problems in bilateral relations, such as differences in regulatory practices, market access conditions, government procurement, intellectual property rights (IPR) and investor protection. However, some of these differences are deeply inherent in the regulatory systems and have become the reasons for numerous disputes. Despite the fact that the negotiations on TTIP are still in progress, it is already possible to identify and assess the underlying differences that would potentially hamper the creation of deep provisions in the future agreement. The paper aims at analyzing the most difficult areas of negotiations and giving predictions for the future provisions. Firstly, the paper gives an overview of the scope and structure of bilateral relations between the US and EU. Secondly, the authors give detailed analysis of the most important points of the negotiation’s agenda, making stress on the underlying differences in domestic regulation and assessing the depth of those differences. The conclusions are as follows. While some of the areas, such as tariffs, labor and environment, SMEs, state enterprises and others, are relatively easy to agree upon, as both economies are striving to achieve high standards, negotiations on other issues, such as government procurement, NTM regulation and IPR are less likely to achieve high standards.

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Market access for the government procurement of services: comparing recent PTAs with WTO achievements

Opening Markets for Trade in Services ◽

10.1017/cbo9780511812392.015 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 435-474

Author(s):

Robert D. Anderson ◽

Anna Caroline Müller

Keyword(s):

Market Access ◽

Government Procurement ◽

The Government ◽

The Government Procurement

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An Assessment of Barbados' Competitiveness within the EU Market 1992-2006

Global Economy Journal ◽

10.2202/1524-5861.1574 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 1850194 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Troy Lorde ◽

Antonio Alleyne ◽

Brian Francis

Keyword(s):

Value Chain ◽

Agricultural Policy ◽

Market Access ◽

Value Added ◽

Rules Of Origin ◽

History Of ◽

Economic Partnership ◽

Partnership Agreement ◽

The Uk ◽

The Eu

This paper assesses Barbados' competitiveness within the EU market in light of its recent signing of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the EU in 2008. Using SITC data from 1992-2006, indices of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) were calculated. We found that Barbados possesses comparative advantages in Live Animals; Raw Sugars, Beet and Cane; and Spirits. However, policies such as the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), stringent sanitary and phytosanitary requirements, onerous rules of origin and non-tariff barriers including technical barriers to trade, threaten to undermine these advantages. These developments strongly suggest that Barbados must move agriculture up the value chain and increase value-added, as well as integrate it more fully with other sectors of its economy. Greater attention must be focused on countries in the EU other than the UK, if full advantage is to be taken of the EPA, as the UK market is already mature. There is evidence that export opportunities to these countries exist in other commodity groups (Fuels, Lubricants, etc.; Animal, Vegetable Oils Fats, Wax; Chemicals, Related Products; Manufactured Goods). When these issues are placed within the context of Barbados' history of weak capacity to take advantage of the market access opportunities available from their trading arrangements, the overarching challenge for Barbados is one of effective market access. This will require, among other things, a capable export promotion agency. The export of non-traditional commodities should be promoted, and greater support, perhaps in the form of incentives, should be provided to large firms that are not yet exporters to encourage them to look beyond the domestic market.

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PENGARUH PENERAPAN GOOD GOVERNANCE DALAM E-PURCASHING TERHADAP PENCEGAHAN KORUPSI

Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan Widya Praja ◽

10.33701/jipwp.v45i1.241 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 47-62

Author(s):

Lati Praja Delmana

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Good Governance ◽

Government Procurement ◽

Strategic Objectives ◽

Goods And Services ◽

Electronic Procurement ◽

Controlling Variables ◽

The Government ◽

Internal Supervision

Cases of corruption in Indonesia, especially in the sector of government procurement of goods and services, continue to increase every year. The government has reduce the rate of corruption in the procurement through electronic procurement. But the reality of corruption is still increasing. The authors are interested in building a conceptual framework for good governance and incorporating elements of local culture in electronic procurement to reduce corruption. The principle of good governance in electronic procurement can prevent corruption by applying the principles of participation, transparency, responsiveness, effectiveness, efficiency, equity, strategic objectives, accountability and local cultural values. The purpose of this research is to get a clear and measurable conceptual framework in reducing corruption in government procurement of goods and services. This research method is to use literature review with content analysis. The results of this study are that corruption can be reduced by using electronic procurement if it uses the principles of good governance and there are controlling variables, namely internal supervision, law enforcement and improvement of facilities, infrastructure, leadership commitment and improvement of human resources to carry out electronic procurement according to the rules.

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The Government Procurement Chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: An Assessment of its Potential Impact

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review ◽

10.21552/epppl/2016/4/6 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 270-291

Author(s):

R.D. Anderson ◽

P. Pelletier

Keyword(s):

Government Procurement ◽

Potential Impact ◽

The Government ◽

Partnership Agreement ◽

The Government Procurement

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Scambi commerciali agricoli e accordi di partenariato tra Unione Europea e Africa

ECONOMIA AGRO-ALIMENTARE ◽

10.3280/ecag2009-002005 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 85-103

Author(s):

Carri Carlo Bernini ◽

Maria Sassi

Keyword(s):

International Trade ◽

Market Access ◽

Primary Source ◽

Agricultural Trade ◽

Agricultural Products ◽

Agricultural Product ◽

African Countries ◽

Agricultural Export ◽

Partnership Agreement ◽

The Eu

- The Cotonou Partnership Agreement, signed on 2000, marks the beginning of a new cooperation phase between acp countries and the eu. The iv pillar of the Agreement, aimed at the creation of a free trade area, concerns the economic and trade cooperation and is targeted to make trade in line with the wto rules and to allow the acp countries a full participation to international trade understood as strategic condition for supporting growth and development. In this context, the trade relationships between the eu and Africa are of specific importance when referred to agricultural products. The liberalization process might have a significant impact for the eu as leading world exporter and importer of agricultural goods and the wider destination and origin market of the African food and agricultural products. On the African side, agricultural export are often the primary source of foreign exchange for food imports required for domestic food security. Furthermore, the new Partnership Agreement creates an additional market access only for the agricultural products that, however, might results strongly constrained by the limited supply potential and high eu sps standards. Thus, the analysis of the costs and benefits connected to the liberalization process in both the eu and Africa is relevant for a better understanding of the forthcoming competitive scenario for the agricultural products. This is the topic of the paper that, with reference to the time period from 1995- 2006, provides a preliminary analysis of the main features of the agricultural trade flows between the eu-25 and Africa; the competitive potential of the sector; the explanatory variables of the African export flows trends to the eu-25. Despite the eu is negotiating an Agreement with the African countries as a whole, the analysis also distinguishes among geographic areas in order to estimate the likely different impact of agricultural trade liberalization. To the same aim food and agricultural product are considered separately.JEL Codes: Q17 - Agriculture in International TradeKey words: agricultural trade, trade and development, agricultural competitiveness

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The role of e-purchasing in government procurement fraud reduction through expanding market access

International Journal of Data and Network Science ◽

10.5267/j.ijdns.2021.9.010 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 179-184 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Femilia Zahra ◽

Muhammad Ikbal Abdullah ◽

Muhammad Din ◽

Harifuddin Thahir ◽

Harun Harun ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation Modelling ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Market Access ◽

Government Procurement ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Equation Modelling ◽

The Relationship ◽

Procurement Fraud

This study aims to analyze the effect of e-purchasing implementation on the reduction of fraud in government procurements in Indonesia. This study also analyzes the role of market access in mediating the effect of e-purchasing implementation on government procurement fraud. The study was conducted in all Procurement Service Units (ULP) of cities and districts in Indonesia. The questionnaires were sent electronically to 520 ULPs, but only 120 respondents could be used in this study. In analyzing data, the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used with the support of the program Partial Least Square (WarpPLS 7.0) to examine the relationship between variables studied. The results show that the implementation of e-purchasing directly reduces the level of fraud in government procurements in Indonesia. Other findings of the study also indicate that the implementation of e-purchasing expands market access. The rise of market access in implementing e-purchasing will affect the level of frauds relating to procurement practices in the Indonesian government.

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