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roposal, it will be examined how European Union use its Trade Barriers Regulation to protect its market against competitors. Turkish market is the one of the competitors in terms of Trade Barriers Regulation and European Union governmental policies in trade region. To protect its domestic market and to keep up labour those barriers are used effectively to gain success against foreign competitors.

 

Dealing with trade barriers to trade in the international trading system does not have a long history. Until recently it was largely underweighted compare to other more visible trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas. Liberalization efforts in the context of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) for example, epitomize this path. Technical Barriers to trade issue was brought into GATT agenda in 1973. Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), which was concluded, and a part of the World Trade Organization (WTO) package signed by all WTO members.

 

Importers have massive difficulties in obtaining required technical legislation of the importing countries. Responsible authorities for tariffs and quotas are generally national ministries of foreign trades, and sometimes custom agencies. Technical regulations, however, may be formulated, implemented and supervised by different national authorities, including local governments, such as National Health, Environment, Agriculture, Industry and Labour Agencies. Technical requirements are also broader, they may include, environment, public safety, health, labor related issues as well as product standards. They can be discriminatory: compliance of standards and regulation is typically more costly for foreign producers and importers than that for domestic producers. (Baldwin 2001)

 

The European Union has always been an important trading partner of Turkey. Trade relations with the EU has accounted for roughly half of Turkey’s imports and exports. Its exports to the EU countries in 2001 accounted for $16 billion, which was approximately 51 percent of its total exports of $31.5 billon. In the same year, the value of Turkey’s import from the EU was $26 billon, 44 percent of its total import. [i] As of 1999, Turkey is the EU's 7th biggest export destination and 13th biggest exporter to the EU. A Customs Union covering industrial products was officially established between Turkey and the EU in 1995. Turkey is among the countries where the union has the highest trade surplus. The customs union would further open and consolidate the Turkish market for Community producers. All tariff and non-tariff barriers might be eliminated. Community exporters will thus earn preferential and free access to this young and mostly non saturated market of nearly 70 million consumers (Allen2000).

 

Most obvious dynamic gain for the Turkish producers will be generated from economies of scale due to two aspects of the elimination of technical barriers. First, as Maskus and Wilson (2001) indicate, “common standards and regulations can promote economies of scale by permitting producers to settle on a limit本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。