Commercial Integration between the European Union and Mexico

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the editor
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• The Impact of the EU-Mexican Trade Agreement on Revealed Comparative Advantage
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Review of Literature
• 3. Methodology and Data
• 4. Results
• 5. Conclusions
• References
• The EU-Mexico Agreement: What Has Happened to Trade and Capital Flows since 2000?
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Trade in goods
• 2.1 The EU total trade
• 2.2 Mexico’s total trade
• 2.3 EU-Mexico trade
• 3. Foreign Direct Investment Flows
• 3.1 The EU’s FDI
• 3.2 Mexico’s FDI inflows
• 3.3 Mexico’s reception of FDI by sector
• 3.4 FDI flows from the EU
• 4. Trade and FDI determinants
• 5. Conclusions
• References
• Mexican-European Union Free Trade Agreement: Liberalization Process and Mexican Export Performance
• 1. Introduction
• 2. General Characteristics of the Mexican – European Union Free Trade Agreement
• 3. Mexican-EU FTA Tariff Elimination Scheme for Mexican Products
• 4. MEX-EU FTA Commercial Liberation for Mexican Food Products
• 5. Mexican Exports to European Union before and after the Mexican-EU-FTA
• 6. Agro-Food Mexican Exports to the European Union
• 7. Mexican exports of processed food to the European Union (Section IV of the HS) before and after the Mexican-EU-FTA
• 8. Conclusions
• References
• Mexican Firms’ Entry Strategies to the European Union Market
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The European Union and Mexico Free Trade Agreement
• 3. Mexican Imports from the European Union
• 4. Mexican Exports to the European Union
• 5. Chapter objectives
• 6. Literature Review: International Strategies
• 7. Traditional Motivators in International Trade
• 8. New Motivators
• 9. The Meaning of Internationalization: Prerequisites and Processes
• 10. The evolution of a mentality: from an international strategy to a transnational strategy
• 11. The mode of entry strategies into the European Union by Mexican firms
• 12. Conclusions
• References
• The EU-Mexican FTA and Art. XXIV GATT
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Trade creation vs. trade diversion
• 3. Art. XXIV GATT
• 4. The external criteria: Art. XXIV:5b GATT
• 5. The internal criteria: Art. XXIV:8b GATT
• 6. The EU-Mexican FTA in the light of Art. XXIV GATT
• 6.1 The CRTA
• 6.2 Trade Data
• 7. Conclusions
• References
• Investment Protection Standards in the Mexico – European Union Bilateral Investment Treaties: Fair and Equitable Treatment and Full Protection and Security
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The new EU investment policy
• 2.1 General Framework of the new policy
• 2.2 Evolution of investment regulation in the EU
• 2.3 BITs Concluded by EU Member States prior to the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon
• 2.4 BIT Arbitration under the proposed regulation
• 2.5 Substantive investment protections under the new investment policy
• 3. Fair and Equitable Treatment in the context of the Mexico-EU BITs
• 3.1 General notion of FET
• 4.3.1 The interpretation of FET in accordance to international law principles
• 3.1.2 The interpretation of FET as a standard linked to customary international law
• 3.1.3 The interpretation of FET as a self-contained standard
• 3.1.4 Tecmed
• 3.2 The relationship between FET and other standards of investment protection
• 4. Full Protection and Security
• 4.1 FPS linked to Customary International Law
• 4.2 FPS as a self-contained standard
• 5. Conclusions
• References
• Cases
• Treaties
• Reputations and Supportive Behavior of Spanish and U.S. Firms in Mexico
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Hypotheses
• 2.1 Foreign Headquarters
• 2.2 Degree of Internationalization
• 2.3 Individual-Level Demographic Influences
• 2.4 Supportive Behavior
• 3. Methodology
• 3.1 Sample
• 3.2 Dependent Variables
• 3.3 Independent Variables
• 3.4 Control Variables
• 3.5 Analysis
• 4. Results
• 4.1 Corporate reputation
• 5. Supportive behavior
• 6. Discussion
• 7. Conclusions
• References
• Regulatory Changes of the Financial Industry in the E.U.
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The origins of the 2007-2009 financial crisis in the United States
• 3. The European Union’s Financial Regulation Framework: Some Antecedents
• 4. The First Bank Directive
• 5. The Second Bank Directive
• 6. The Investment Services Directive
• 7. The Capital Adequacy Directive
• 8. Financial Services Action Plan
• 9. The Commission of Wise Men and the Lamfalussy Report
• 10. Why did the existing regulations fail in 2007-2009?
• 11. The integration of the financial markets in Europe, national regulations and the convergence efforts
• 12. The Larosière and Turner Reports
• 13. Lord Turner’s Report
• 14. Concluding Remarks
• References
• An Approach to the CSR of European Companies Operating in Mexico
• 1. Introduction
• 2. European and Mexican Conceptions of CSR
• 3. The Millenium Development Goals (MDG) as Reference for CSR in Mexico
• 4. The Stakeholders’ Role in Defining CSR Objectives
• Spanish Companies in Mexico and their CSR
• 5. BBVA
• 6. Santander
• 7. Gas Natural Unión FENOSA
• 8. Gas Natural Mexico
• 9. Telefónica
• 10. Sol Melia
• 11. CSR of Spanish Companies in Mexico in the EUMFTA framework
• 12. Conclusion
• References