Cultural allegiances whether inherited, imposed or chosen, affect economic activity. Many of these cultural layers – ethnic background, religion, language, ideological orientation, and artistic interests – spill over national boundaries. Cultural ideas travel the world along many routes from...

Zum 1. Januar 2005 sind für die Mitglieder der World Trade Organisation (WTO) alle Quoten, die bisher den Handel mit textilen Produkten eingeschränkt haben, weggefallen. Für das deutsche Textil- und Bekleidungsgewerbe wird dies aber wahrscheinlich keine direkten, gravierend negativen...

This paper analyses the trade effects of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade for a large panel of French firms. To focus on restrictive product standards only, we use a new database compiling the list of measures that have been raised as concerns in dedicated committees of the...

On 16 June 2003, the United States requested consultations with Mexico concerning its definitive anti-dumping measures on beef and long grain white rice as well as certain provisions of Mexico’s Foreign Trade Act and its Federal Code of Civil Procedure.