ABSTRACT
At first sight ‘Everything but Arms’ (EBA) seems a limited initiative. It liberalizes only 919 (out of 10,200) tariff lines, specifically targeted at imports from the poorest countries, and stretched out between 2001 and 2009 for their most important products. However, when the European Commission launched the EBA proposal in 2000, it was broadly welcomed as a positive step towards a more development-friendly trade policy. More than five years after its inception, this book attempts to evaluate the importance of EBA.
