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consumer protection organizations), both within the EU and abroad (Patterson 1997, 141). The world market’s impact on foreign producers might result in reconfiguration of the EU’s external partners’ domestic coalition. Latter, in turn, would influence the EU’s partners’ reservation schedules during international negotiations such as that of the Doha Round. Similarly, the world market’s impact on various domestic producers in the EU might result in re-configuration of these member states’ domestic coalitions. The third chapter of this thesis attempts to test these theoretical statements in with the empirics of the Mid-Term Review reform. 28