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When do business associations want a hard trade-sustainability nexus? A framework of analysis and the EU case

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  • Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar

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This paper proposes and probes the plausibility of a framework to explain how business associations position themselves politically as trade-related sustainability obligations get stronger. An analysis of the submissions of EU business associations during a consultation on trade and sustainability indicates that firm-level and organisational characteristics explain well trade associations’ political cleavages. The paper can provide new insights to help understand a major development in the EU and beyond. The EU is passing through an unprecedented shift in its approach to trade and sustainability as it is likely to rely on legal sanctions to enforce sustainability commitments in trade agreements. Understanding the position of EU business interests in that process is relevant to project the consequences of such shift. Besides, as sustainability provisions in trade agreements get stronger, associations may play an ever-important role in promoting their members collectively or in shielding them from reputational costs. Understanding their political positioning is thus key to understanding the very politics of trade and sustainable development.

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  • Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar, 2024. "When do business associations want a hard trade-sustainability nexus? A framework of analysis and the EU case," New Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(2), pages 210-226, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cnpexx:v:29:y:2024:i:2:p:210-226
    DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2238627
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