under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … reviews the WTO Appellate Body’s findings and discusses a number of the legal and policy implications regarding China …In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China …

in trade agreements increase the likelihood and restrictiveness of NTBs. We also provide a structural estimate that …

countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. We … impact follows from erosion of EU preferences. This suggests the erosion problem is primarily bilateral rather than a WTO …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

This Paper presents a survey of the literature on trade liberalization and globalization. The questions are why trade … liberalization occurred, why trade liberalization took the form of reciprocity combined with multilateralism, why the liberalization … allows for protectionist policies, and why there is opposition to the globalization of markets that has occurred as the …

stance taken in high-income countries opposed to GMOs and/or to liberalization of China’s trade in textiles and apparel. …China has always strived for self-sufficiency in farm products, particularly staple foods. Its rapid industrialization … the WTO may add to that difficulty. New agricultural biotechnologies could ease that situation. The adoption and spread of …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the competitive effects of increased trade on prices, productivity and … bias of monetary policy. Our results suggest that increased trade could account for as much as a quarter of European …

sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …-1878. There were three forces at work that account for Mexican exceptionalism: first, the terms of trade and Dutch disease effects …

equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative … falling trade costs for goods. However, we also find that if the globalization process continues as a result of reduced costs … fact been bell-shaped. We argue that this bell-shaped evolution of wage inequality can be linked to globalization and a …

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between civil wars and international trade. We first show that trade … presence of two effects that trade can have on the risk of civil conflicts: it may act as a deterrent if trade gains are put at … risk during civil wars but it may also act as an insurance if international trade provides a substitute to internal trade …