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Trick or treat ? Development opportunities and challenges in the WTO negotiations on industrial tariffs

Fernandez de Córdoba, Santiago; Laird, Sam; Vanzetti, David - 2004

Negotiations on industrial tariffs in the current WTO have turned out to be surpisingly more difficult than expected. On the one hand, developing countries, particularly in Africa, are concerned about the effect on their industrial development of developed country efforts to push them into deep...

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Blend it like Beckham: Trying to read the ball in the WTO negotiations on industrial tariffs

Fernandez de Córdoba, Santiago; Laird, Sam; Vanzetti, David - 2004

The current WTO negotiations on industrial tariffs have focused largely on a formula approach to cutting tariffs, but the process of trying to find a compromise that would satisfy all sides has led to a number of propositions that entail blending various elements of formulae, sectoral...

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Another Look at the WTO Negotiations on Agriculture

Vanzetti, David; Peters, Ralf - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

The WTO negotiations on the reform of agricultural tariffs, export subsidies and domestic support is proving to be increasingly frustrating with little progress since prior to the Cancun Ministerial of August 2003, apart from an agreement to keep talking. In this paper a possible outcome in the...

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Open Wide: Vietnam’s Agricultural Trade Policy

Vanzetti, David - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

Vietnam, worsening its terms of trade. A quantitative analysis of likely policy changes is undertaken assuming Vietnam …

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Nothing to Declare: Duty-free access to imports from LDCs

Vanzetti, David; Peters, Ralf - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012

agricultural goods such as rice, oilseeds, sugar and bananas. The potential trade and welfare impacts of expanding the coverage are …

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Vietnam's Trade Policy Dilemmas

Vanzetti, David; Huong, Pham Lan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Vietnam faces alternative options in opening its economy to trade. It is about to join the World Trade Organization; as … a member of the ASEAN Free Trade Area it is contemplating extending the regional trade area to include China, Korea and … Japan; and it has recently concluded a bilateral agreement with the United States. Opening up to trade is a two-edged sword …

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Duty-free and quota-free market access for LDCs

Vanzetti, David; Peters, Ralf - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2009

agricultural goods such as rice, oilseeds, sugar and bananas. The potential trade and welfare impacts of expanding the coverage are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005503358