Highlights - Studies on Textile and labelling, TTIP in Customs and Trade facilities and UTP - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

At the request of the IMCO committee, Policy Department A produced three studies on: - challenges and opportunities in the area of Textiles and Labelling, - TTIP - challenges and opportunities in the area of Customs and - Trade Facilities and Unfair trading practices in the business-to-business food supply chain. A summary of the studies as well as the link to them are below.

The study on challenges and opportunities in the area of Textiles and Labelling analyses opportunitiesand challenges of TTIP for the EU in textile and clothing (T&C). This areadiffers from other industrial sectors in that average tariff levels are relativelyhigh and a number of tariff peaks still exist...

The trade costs associated with customs and otherborder controls become more important as tariff barriers are reduced. The EU isin the process of further modernisation of is customs code This paper on TTIP - challenges and opportunities in the area of Customs and TradeFacilities - is about how to make customs more efficient...

The study on Unfair trading practices in thebusiness-to-business food supply chain gives a summary of the workshop whichaim was to discuss the unfair trade practicesthat are used in business-to-businessrelationships, in the context of the food supply chain and beyond, as well as the existing and future measures thatcould be used against such practices.