Public-Private Relationships in Trade Policy-Making by Je Hyun-Jung Jessie

Author:Je Hyun-Jung Jessie [Jessie, Je Hyun-Jung]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Trade & Tariffs, Public Policy, International, Political Science, Business & Economics, Economic Policy, General
ISBN: 9789813237698
Google: FipjDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2018-06-12T13:00:05+00:00

CHAPTER V

PUBLIC–PRIVATE RELATIONSHIPS IN TRADE POLICY-MAKING AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL

While there have been multifaceted efforts to enhance transparency, and engage private actors in trade policy-making at the international level, it has been emphasized that it is the Member governments that must take primary responsibility in developing public–private relationships with regard to domestic decision-making procedures in trade policy. Scholars and trade experts have also highlighted the importance of national trade policy-making and governments’ efforts to engage private actors in the decision-making process, because enhancing legitimacy in such a way is necessary to maintain social cohesion and broad support for trade policy.182 Wolfe has stated that “trade policy democracy begins at home, not in Geneva”, and “consultations with citizens and economic actors are a fundamental part of making good trade policy.”183

There have been a number of studies on public–private relationships in trade policy-making at the national level, but most of them dealt with case studies.184 Therefore, they are more descriptive than analytical, and thus, their findings are rather limited in scope from the analytical perspective. In this part, the major mechanisms for public engagement in the U.S. and the EU will be examined, and then analyzed with the framework suggested in the second chapter. There are several reasons why the U.S. and the EU were chosen for examination. First, it is necessary to provide an overview of the mechanisms of countries which engage private actors more actively in trade policy-making. The positions that the U.S. and the EU have taken in the negotiations on the DSU revealed that they are more open to public engagement than other Member States. As examined in the previous part, both the U.S. and the EU have inserted rules on public hearings and the admission of amicus curiae briefs in regional free trade agreements that they have concluded. Comparing public engagement in the U.S. and the EU is also meaningful because the mechanisms in the U.S. exemplify well-established public engagement by laws, while the EU has principle-based and policy-based mechanisms for public–private relationships.

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