Innocent Bystanders
Implications of an EU–India Free Trade Agreement for Excluded Countries

The European Union, under its ‘Global Europe’ initiative, has since 2006 been pursuing trade agreements with its major global trading partners. An EU–India Free Trade Agreement is currently under negotiation; if successfully concluded it is likely to have knock-on effects on other countries’ trade with both India and the EU, the trade of the ‘innocent bystanders’ excluded from the agreement.
The authors consider the implications of the EU–India Free Trade Agreement for various groups of other countries, including the ACP countries and those in South Asia, the latter group being most strongly impacted. The analysis considers not only trade in goods but also trade in services, and focuses not only on quantities but also on the prices at which trade is conducted.
The authors then consider how excluded countries might respond to the Free Trade Agreement, both at an individual level and at a systemic level.
The authors consider the implications of the EU–India Free Trade Agreement for various groups of other countries, including the ACP countries and those in South Asia, the latter group being most strongly impacted. The analysis considers not only trade in goods but also trade in services, and focuses not only on quantities but also on the prices at which trade is conducted.
The authors then consider how excluded countries might respond to the Free Trade Agreement, both at an individual level and at a systemic level.
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Preface and Summary
This publication comes out of a request from the Commonwealth Secretariat in London under the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation. The terms of reference of the request were for us to assess the implications of a potential EU–India bilateral trade deal on other developing countries, particularly for the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) and other low-income developing countries that have an overwhelming dependence on the EU market for their export revenues.
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