1. External Trade CEJA Conference zoltan.somogyi@ec.europa.eu DG TRADE “Future CAP in a global context”

2. External Trade Summary 1.The global context 2.DDA – what will it bring and when 3.Free Trade Agreements 4.Levelling the playing field 5.GIs

3. External Trade A major Trading Power (2008 & 2009) … Source: Eurostat (Comext, Statistical regime 4), IMF, WTO, UNCTAD

4. External Trade 1. Agricultural trade and sensitivity of the sector World agricultural trade only about 5% of total trade in goods; Similar figures for the EU but sensitive sector for the EU in both multilateral and bilateral negotiations

5. External Trade World market share of top exporters and top importers

6. External Trade WTO-DDA Why slow progress?

7. External Trade DDA-Agriculture Break-down in July-Dec 2008 3 chapter -Domestic support, -Market access, -Export competition

8. External Trade Bilateral and regional trade negotiations Concluded: Central America, Andean, Korea (!) Ongoing: India, Ukraine, Asean (separately), Mercosur (!) Others: EPAs, Euromed, Russia’s WTO accession, etc.

9. External Trade Levelling the playing field? Product standards ≠ Production standards Production standards, challenging!! Where to address it (two-way street) -Multilateral -Bilateral

10. External Trade Geographical Indications (PDOs, PGIs) GI is an Intellectual Property right (WTO TRIPS) DDA –extension - register Bilateral negotiations (Korea, Mercosur, India, etc…+ wine specifics (AUS, USA, CAN) ACTA