Abstract
Since 2013, the European Union (EU) is negotiating with the United States of America (US) a Free Trade Agreement (FTA ), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTI P). A controversial topic in the negotiations are the different quality standards in the agri-food sectors of both negotiating partners. In order to put into force a FTA all the EU Member States have to agree to the implementation of the contract. Poland has been a full EU Member State since 1 May 2004 and gained a strong position within the EU. Thus, the importance of this EU Member State is of great relevance to the EU’s trade policy. The main objective of this article is to analyse Poland’s trading position and its domestic interests. The study primarily aimed at investigating the awareness of the TTI P in the agri-food sector with focus on the quality standards of this industry. There has been no in-depth discussion of this sensitive issue within Polish companies of the sector, yet. In particular, the study identified an uncertainty regarding the application and interpretation of international standards in cross-border customersupplier relationships of food supply chains. For this reason, it is recommended to define these uncertainties and develop proposals for the harmonization and exploitation of synergies. In summary, the results have relevance for the sector.
Highlights
In June 2013, the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (US) turned towards intensive negotiations about a bilateral Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (EC, 2013a)
This paper aims to verify the hypothesis that the knowledge about the TTIP is very low in the companies of the Polish agri-food industry, while confirming the importance of quality standards regarding foreign trade
A survey among experts of the agri-food sector was conducted aimed to examine the awareness of the TTIP and the status of knowledge about the US trade in the context of quality management
Summary
In June 2013, the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (US) turned towards intensive negotiations about a bilateral Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (EC, 2013a). Since the beginning of 2017, negotiations with the US government have been paused (BMWi, 2018). The EU is in close contact with the US and tries to turn the trade relations into positive ones and prevent punitive tariffs (EC, 2018a, 2018b, 2018c). The EU has underlined that this FTA will reduce regulatory barriers, having a positive impact on the EU foreign trade (EC, 2013b; BMWi, 2018)
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