Executive Summary / Introduction / Part I: The Global and Bilateral Context / 1. Why an EU-China free trade area? / 2. China and the EU in a rapidly changing world economy / 3. Bilateral economic relations: Trade and investments / 4. Global value chains: Significance for the EU and China / Part II: Design and Substance of an EU-China FTA / 5. What would an EU-China FTA look like? / 6. Market access in industrial goods: An analysis of tariffs / 7. Market access in goods: Trade defence remedies / 8. Market access in agriculture: Tariffs and tariff-rate quotas / 9. Technical barriers to trade / 10. Reducing SPS barriers in an EU-China FTA / 11. Market access in services: China and the EU / 12. Public procurement / 13. Intellectual property rights and geographical indications / 14. State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and competition policy / 15. Investment and the BIT / Part II: Potential Economic Impact: A CGE-based simulation of effects of the FTA / 16. Introduction / 17. Trade and production linkages / 18. Removing tariffs and reducing NTM costs in a China-EU FTA / 19. Modelling the FTA between China and the EU / Part IV: Conclusions and Policy Implications / 20. Policy implications of an EU-China free trade agreement / References
