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In this paper the authors develop an innovative 21 sector computable general equilibrium model of Armenia to assess the impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or multilateral trade policy commitments. They find that a...
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Services play a more important role in trade and employment in the United Kingdom than in most other OECD countries. The UK services sector is supported by an open and transparent trade regime, policies that support competition and innovation, and regulatory transparency that facilitates the...
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We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on the extensive margins of trade. Using OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators – which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bali WTO Ministerial Conference of December 2013 – we show that trade facilitation in a given...
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and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on …
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, including products not targeted by U.S. tariffs on China. We are however the first to ask what seems to drive these trade ….S. tariffs on China. Second, we show that there is evidence of spillovers to similar non-targeted products: products in similar … the tariffs on China also export more to other countries. This suggests that firms are entering these countries and once …
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Trade-diversion effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) have not been thoroughly examined empirically. Using a novel empirical approach, we confirm that FTAs divert trade away from non-member countries and even more so from internal trade (domestic sales) in member countries.
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trade policies also play a role. For instance, tariffs on intermediate inputs are found to adversely affect trade with this … tariffs. The forward-looking analysis suggests that over the next 50 years, the geographical centre of trade will continue to …
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trade policies also play a role. For instance, tariffs on intermediate inputs are found to adversely affect trade with this … tariffs. The forward-looking analysis suggests that over the next 50 years, the geographical centre of trade will continue to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375298
effects of reducing tariffs and simultaneously replacing lost tariff revenues with revenues from consumption tax. It concludes …
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This article reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalization on poverty in developing countries and asks whether our knowledge has changed significantly over a decade. The conclusion that liberalization generally boosts income and thus reduces poverty has not changed; some...
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