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The Erosion of Tariff Preferences: The Impact of U.S. Tariff Reductions on Developing Countries
Reynolds, Kara - EconWPA - 2005
The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the program instituted in 1976 that allows developing countries to export … the ability of the GSP program to encourage U.S. imports from beneficiary countries. This paper estimates the impact of U ….S. tariff reductions on imports from the developing world using a panel of import data from 76 countries and 2,389 GSP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119327
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Trade Policies in Central Asia after EU Enlargement and before Russian WTO accession: Regionalism and Integration into the world economy.
Pomfret, Richard - EconWPA - 2005
This paper analyses the choices between regionalism and multilateralism, and the impact of WTO membership on the five … Chinese and Russian WTO membership and the consequences of the current Central Asian applicants’ (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and … Uzbekistan) own WTO accession. During the1990s, many regional trade agreements were signed - arrangements both among the Central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556162
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WTO Dispute Settlement at Ten: Evolution, Experiences, and Evaluation
Zimmermann, Thomas A. - EconWPA - 2005
, WTO Members and adjudicating bodies managed to develop the system further through evolving practice. While this approach … decisionmaking in the WTO (as incorporated in the DSU) and nearly blocked political decisionmaking evolves into a serious challenge … WTO-Abkommens in Kraft. In den ersten zehn Jahren seines Bestehens fand das DSU auf 324 Klagebegehren Anwendung – mehr …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556422
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El Sistema Generalizado de Preferencias: las razones de una frustración (Generalized System of Preferences: The Reasons for the Frustration)
Martín, Iván - EconWPA - 2003
characteristics of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), review its economic effects and limitations and point out the grounds … which caused its gradual loss of relevance in international trade relationships. Finally, I consider the causes of GSP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408023
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Opinión Económica sobre la Posibilidad de la Aplicación de una Medida de Salvaguardia a las Importaciones de Papel para Imprimir y Escribir, de Sacos Bolsas de Papel y de Cuadernos...
Porras, Author Enrique R. González - EconWPA - 2003
La gestión del presidente Hugo Chávez a casi cuatro años de gestión y un profundo deterioro de indicadores de empleo, informalidad y nivel de actividad económica, así como ante una fuga de capitales muy marcada, pretende revertir las consecuencias de una inestabilidad y desmontaje...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124903
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Some Ethical Issues in Trade Policy: Management Ethics versus the Law
McGee, Robert W. - EconWPA - 1998
There are a number of ethical issues in the area of international trade that affect managers. This article will address two ethical issues that have been almost totally neglected in the literature -- antidumping and sanctions. Antidumping laws are special interest legislation. Rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124913
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Trade policy, cross-border externalities and lobbies: do linked agreements enforce more cooperative outcomes?
Limão, Nuno - EconWPA - 2002
If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non-pecuniary externalities), will this promote more cooperation in both policies or will cooperation in one policy be strengthened at the expense of the other? We analyze this question in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124914
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Price-neutral Tax Reform With an Informal Economy
Emran, M. Shahe; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - EconWPA - 2004
A strand of recent literature shows that a reform of import tariff (export tax) and consumption tax (production tax) that keeps the consumer (producer) price unchanged enhances welfare and increases revenue under plausible conditions. It has been argued that the results provide an ex-post...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125866
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Postbellum Protection and Commissioner Wells's Conversion to Free Trade
Meardon, Stephen - EconWPA - 2005
A moment of consequence to the postbellum U.S. tariff debate was the 'conversion' of David Ames Wells, Commissioner of the Revenue from 1865- 1870, to free trade. When he began his work Wells was a disciple of the eminent American protectionist Henry C. Carey. By the age of forty, however, he...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126067
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Strategic Trade Policy, Spillovers, and the Uncertain Mode of
Zigic, Kresimir - EconWPA - 2001
In this paper we discuss the incentives of a welfare maximizing government to implement strategic trade policy when there is, on the one hand, uncertainty about the relevant market information (like the type of competition, demand function, cost function, etc.), but, on the other hand, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134502