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Who says the EU can't negotiate free trade agreements (1)?
How about some facts? This claim needed exploring. So I did some exploring
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How about some facts? This claim needed exploring. So I did some exploring
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Who says the EU can't negotiate free trade agreements (2)?
Now, I didn't check every single WTO member. And because of the database constraint I only checked for agreements on goods. But then all but one agreement in the database is either goods alone (not one of these)
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Now, I didn't check every single WTO member. And because of the database constraint I only checked for agreements on goods. But then all but one agreement in the database is either goods alone (not one of these)
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Oops, typo while trying to edit. All but one agreement on the database is either on goods alone or goods and services. Only one is only services (not a pair of countries on this list)
And in case anyone wants more detail: here's the full list of EU free trade agreements notified to the WTO
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