European Union Trade Relations with Third Countries

Teaching results

Students will possess following abilities:
- deepening the knowledge of the EU's external trade relations with selected territories, especially those with non-preferential agreement,
- knowledge of current EU foreign trade positions,
- knowledge of the coherence between the common commercial policy and EU agricultural policy on the example of the development of EU relations with the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific and Latin America, and on the example of a specific commodity,
- understanding the use of non-tariff barriers, in particular rules of origin (on specific examples).
Students will obtain following skills:
- the ability to use publicly available data in the field of international trade and to identify the potential of the EU's foreign trade (export or import) in a specific territory,
- the ability to prepare the presentation about the development of the EU's foreign trade relations and the EU position in the selected territory,
- the ability to formulate recommendations for resolving the current situation in the EU's foreign trade relations.
Students will gain following competences:
- the ability to work in teams as well as to coordinate the work of teams and to solve assignments within teams,
- the ability to defend the results of case studies for selected countries, based on the facts and data,
- ability to critically evaluate the acquired knowledge,
- the ability to think creatively and innovatively in search of perspectives for the development of the EU's foreign trade relations.