The EU’S Trade Polıcy and It’s Reflectıons to The Türkiye

The European Union (EU) has an power through trade and this situation increasing gradually. EU uses market access as a bargaining chip to obtain changes in the domestic arena of its trading partners, from labor standards to development policies. Indeed, one of the central objectives of EU trade policy has been to “harness globalization” and spread, through the negotiation of trade agreements, the European model of society to the rest of the world. The EU has been a staunch promoter of regionalism and multilateralism. Regional integration and interregionalism are consistently mentioned as instruments and objectives in EU policy documents and they constitute a standard practice in EU foreign policy.

This paper aims to show how the EU use trade policy as a foreign policy tool. Main characters of EU’s foreign trade policy, and some documents that giving EU’s policy directions and priorities have been evaluated. EU’s trade policy dimensions has been searched.

At the accession process with the EU, Turkey’s adoption and harmonisation to this policy area is very important and contain some difficulties. In the light of this research and evaluation, it has been seen that the EU strongly and intensly uses trade policy as a foreign policy tool. EU’s trade policy is not only trade policy. Turkey and similar countries at the accession process have been forced this multifaced policy and they have been faced difficulties. For this end, they need following and organise their policies.