The Core of Trade Policies of the European Union -- Freedom

本文主要分析的是关于欧盟的贸易政策的核心——自由的paper范文。本文主要介绍的欧盟是28个州的经济联盟,是世界上最大的政治组织和经济。作为一个经济体,欧元区,它是最大的出口国和进口国使用欧元作为单一货币。欧盟的成立，不仅给全球化带来更多的收益，同时也带给世界更多的经济收入，他的成立有着重要的历史地位。
Nowadays, the European Union, a politico-economic union of 28 states, is one of the biggest political groups and economies in the world. As an economy, known as the Eurozone, it is the largest exporter and importer which uses the Euro as a single currency. With just 7% of the world's population, it accounts for over one quarter of the world's wealth as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) – the total value of goods and services produced.[  http://europa.eu/pol/pdf/flipbook/en/trade_en.pdf] Building the free market with the trade of goods, services, and people is the original aim of the EU. 
With the process of globalization, the pattern of product is changing significantly. Today, the parts of products are yielded in different parts of the world, and they are assembled in another place. It is necessary to clear the trade limits such as taxes and other barriers for the economic development in current circumstance. The European Union has proposed many policies to accelerate the trade. The core and key of these trade policies is free trade.
EU has 28 member states, which including complex national borders. To build a free trade market, the EU tries to liberalize its member states markets (allowing imports to compete with domestic products freely). Overtime, the member states of European Union have become more interdependent, and the EU seems becoming a big state. Free trade means trade of goods, services with little taxes or without taxes and unregulated accessing to markets and markets information. The member states of the EU encourage free trade, which stimulates the economy strongly. Besides, the EU Commission negotiates agreements on behalf of the EU within WTO rules and works closely with national governments and the European Parliament to maintain the global system and enable it to adapt to worldwide changes.[ http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutions-bodies/european-parliament/index_en.htm  http://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en] Unlike the US policy, the content of the EU agreements varies considerably from case to case. EU–Chile is seen as something of a model as it represents the most recent and advanced FTA, but it is only likely to be a model when the EU negotiates with countries at a similar level of development. (Woolcock, 5)
According to an economic theory called comparative advantage, one has a comparative advantage over another in producing a certain product if he can yield the good costing lower. An agent who has a comparative advantage can increase the number of products and decrease the consumption of the product under free trade.
There is no doubt that the EU has become the world's biggest single market zone. Not only European but also international investors enjoy the benefits of the Eurozone, where the movement of goods, services, and people is free. Through free trade agreements, the EU engages with a large number of partners, which seek to create jobs for EU by opening other country's markets. The EU has been more aggressive and competitive under the free trade. In 2009 trade within the EU accounted for 66 percent of the overall exports of the member states and 64 percent of their imports (IMF).[ http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutions-bodies/european-parliament/index_en.htm  http://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en]
Apart from free trade to increase the economy, it is hard to ignore the humanism of the EU policy. The EU helps to decrease child labors and environmental destruction and emphasizes the combination of trade and development for many poor countries. It also allows the poor countries paying lower duties and supports the increase of exports of the poor. 
Free trade applied in the European Union has showed its strong power to stimulate the economy and the benefits it brings. It is the tendency to build a big free trade zone including all the countries and regions in the world, but the process will be hard and cost long time. The time may be 50 years, 100 years, or 200 years. Who knows? 

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