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EU TRADE AGREEMENTS
PETROVÁ, Michaela
The diploma thesis deals with trade agreements that the EU concludes with third countries in order to remove tariff and non-tariff barriers to foreign trade. The theoretical part deals with the description of legislative documents that regulate the conclusion process of these agreements, where the EU member states are represented by the EU and act externally as a whole. The practical part dealt with the economic impacts of trade agreements with selected countries on the EU in comparison with its member state the Czech Republic. The impacts were assessed according to selected indicators, which focused mainly on the trade balance and employment. According to the studied literature, agreements have a higher impact on small economies and companies, as tariff and non-tariff measures are more difficult for them to overcome than for large corporations. The EU promotes global economic openness and seeks liberalization of the world market, but in recent years there have been increasing views on maintaining barriers, as some studies could jeopardize the competitiveness of the European market in certain commodities.
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Globalization and Small Countries - Unique Challenges, Universal Solutions
Petkovska, Katerina ; Cahlík, Tomáš (advisor) ; Benáček, Vladimír (referee)
This work focuses on globalization, more closely on the economic aspects of this process. Small countries, especially developing ones are in the spotlight, as they face unique challenges that have been addressed by the international community for decades at least. The success rate of the intervention is very questionable and leaves room for improvement, which may be a platform to elevate millions out of poverty, solve crippling problems, provide access to technology and improve the global economic system. The uniting hypothesis is that that small developing nations are functioning in a hostile environment when it comes to trade, intellectual property protection and debt, which makes it extremely difficult for them to globalize competitively. Economic history, trade and technology are the main filters of this research. Conventional economic theory like market fundamentalism, and international trade theories will be discussed. A holistic literature review, will try to depict the many sides of the argument. The data used will be from the World Competitiveness Report, World Bank's World Development Indicators, other World Bank data, apropriatiate statistical offices. A case study is implemented to conclude the thesis and in this case to evaluate the hypothesis as only partly true, since small...
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State export promotion in the USA
Christov, Tomáš ; Černá, Iveta (advisor) ; Bolotov, Ilya (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the export promotion instruments applied by the U.S. federal government, their impacts on the U.S. economy and the evolution of U.S. foreign trade in recent years. The thesis systematically describes the export promotion instruments and rules that have to be obeyed when it comes to their application in practice. The OECD Consensus represents a complex system of rules which regulate the application of officially supported export credits and export credit insurance. The thesis thereinafter analyses the impacts of National export initiative adopted by Obama administration and the impacts of programs of federal export agencies on the evolution of the U.S. economy. It also deals with the analysis of individual trade agreements which the USA signed with other states in order to enhance the U.S. companies' access to new markets as well as with the evolution of the U.S. foreign trade in recent years. The thesis also includes subjective opinions on the activities of the U.S. federal government regarding the export promotion but it does not intend to influence the reader who has to make his own opinion on this topic.
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Contractual basis of container shipping
Štěpánek, Martin ; Sato, Alexej (advisor) ; Ekl, Jan (referee)
The thesis deals with the benefits and opportunities of container shipping and focuses on its contractual basis and documentation. The work should clarify under what conditions it is possible to carry out international carriage of goods, and how it is regulated. It defines different types of contracts, through which the shipment is assured and it mentions and describes the documents, which are frequently used in international transportation.
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New regionalism in external Canadian relatioships
Mokošová, Šárka ; Hnát, Pavel (advisor) ; Krč, Jakub (referee)
The aim of my thesis is to analyze development as well as current level of Canadian foreign trade in goods and to compare this level with the number of trade agreements concluded between Canada and other countries. The second issue I considered in my thesis is whether Canada decreases its dependancy on the USA and if so, what are the countries Canada tends to trade with.
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