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Do trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements matter? Impact on trade costs and multilateral spillovers

Duval, Yann; Neufeld, Nora; Utoktham, Chorthip - 2016

The scope and depth of bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (RTAs) negotiated over the past 15 years has expanded beyond traditional market access and preferential tariffs to include provisions on a wide range of issues, including trade facilitation. This study is a first attempt...

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Cost and Benefits of Implementing Trade Facilitation Measures under Negotiations at the WTO: an Exploratory Survey

Duval, Yann - 2006

This study suggests that the WTO may need to establish a long-term institutional mechanism to deal with evolving trade facilitation measures and issues. Countries may also agree on a subset of well-defined TFMs to be implemented by all, as well as on a complementary list of possibly more...

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An exploration of the need for and cost of selected trade facilitation measures in Asia-Pacific in the context of the WTO negotiations

Duval, Yann - 2006

This paper presents the findings and results of an exploratory ARTNeT study on the needs for and costs of implementation of selected trade facilitation measures (TFMs) related to GATT Articles V, VIII and X. This summary paper is based on six ARTNeT working papers issued between January and...

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Trade Facilitation beyond the Doha Round of Negotiations

Duval, Yann - 2007

This paper succinctly explores three emerging (in the case of customs valuation, re-emerging) issues, drawing from recent ARTNeT working papers as well as other relevant literature: (a) trade facilitation and regional trade agreements and initiatives; (b) trade facilitation and customs...

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Enabling participation of SMEs in international trade and production networks: Trade facilitation, trade finance and communication technology

Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip - 2014

This study aimed at identifying key factors affecting SME participation in direct export and international production …. Logit models of SME export and IPN participation revealed the importance of several trade facilitation and related factors …. Access to a variety of external trade finance sources was found to be important to boost SME export participation, with bank …

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What does RCEP mean for insiders and outsiders? The experience of India and Sri Lanka

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2018

This paper explores the economic implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) - Asia's largest trade agreement - on India and Sri Lanka. The findings from existing model-based studies suggest that India, as an insider economy, will potentially gain from the RCEP while...

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Estimating the effect of trade facilitation implementation on trade misinvoicing-based illicit financial flows and tax revenue in Asia and the Pacific

Kravchenko, Alexey; Duval, Yann - 2022

Trade misinvoicing occurs when price, quantity or description of internationally traded goods is purposefully misrepresented for pecuniary gain. It is one type of illicit financial flows (IFFs), and combating IFFs has been explicitly included in the Sustainable Development Goals. Most literature...

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