We use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to assess the economic effects of the Free Trade Area of the … of the model is that it incorporates some aspects of trade with imperfect competition in the manufacturing and services … restrictive measures and the non-trade aspects of the FTAA are not taken into account due to data constraints. The computational …

This paper addresses the issues of whether the linking of core labor standards with multilateral or bilateral trade …

intended to remedy the gross violations of labor and human rights that accompany international trade and investment. Yet, the … creation of customs unions and free trade agreements and, more importantly, the 1971 GSP Decision permitting special and … mechanism for linking ILO-established labor standards, monitoring by the ILO, and enforcement through the threat of lost trade …

International trade in services also provides an assessment of how policy makers can further bolster their service … include the reduction of barriers to services trade across all sectors and the promotion of health- and environment … the most important, because it focuses on the need to ensure trade openness, which helps ensure the access to services and …

reciprocity that have to be met in order to realize greater fairness in multilateral trade negotiations. Next, we comment on …

This paper explores how far free trade agreements (FTAs) have strengthened or weakened global governance of the trading … years, to assign a new importance to regional and bilateral trade agreements in their trade policies. We then consider each … of the main provisions included in FTAs and comment on how these may separately affect the management of trade relations …

In this paper we discuss the various aspects of the Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations in the WTO that offer … potential benefits for developing countries. We then use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to simulate the … services that may be negotiated in the Doha Round, as well as a variety of regional free trade agreements (FTAs). We estimate …

We use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to assess the economic effects of the U.S. bilateral FTAs … barriers. Rules of origin and other restrictive measures and the non-trade aspects of the FTAs are not taken into account due … United States and its FTA partners adopted unilateral free trade and especially if multilateral free trade was adopted by all …

domestic regulatory measures and the trade-related norms and rules of the WTO. There follows an analysis of experience with …

In this study, we use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to analyze the economic welfare effects of APEC … free trade, unilateral free trade for individual APEC members, and global free trade for all countries/regions covered in … sectors in each country/region. Nineteen APEC members are covered. The computational results suggest that APEC free trade …