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The World Trade Organization, which came into existence at the conclusion of the Uruguay Round, is in charge of administering a plethora of new trade rules. The main thrust of the new rules is to reduce or abolish tariffs and quotas on a wide range of products. Some tariffs and quotas were...
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Export Processing Zones are geographical enclaves that have legally been excepted from the country´s normal customs …
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This study examines the trends, prospects and challenges of Malaysia’s export market growth between 1990-2001 using the … in Malaysia have been investigated. First, realizing that Malaysia is highly dependent on its export as the engine of … growth, the study analyzed the growth of each export product and international market access of these products at 2-digit …
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international competition. Trade barriers, export subsidies, and domestic support have been bound and are being scaled down. In this … of agri-environmental regulations among countries on agricultural production costs and farm competitiveness, and the … international competitiveness? Would an international harmonisation of agri environmental policies increase welfare? Which …
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This study brifly looks into the process of Turkey into the world economy and concludes that this process has been accelareted in the 1990s.
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This paper investigates why regional trade arrangements (RTAs) are proliferating extensively and how the effects of multiple RTAs, by interacting with each other, evolve over time. Our empirical analysis, based on an extended gravity model utilizing a large panel data set of 175 countries from...
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This article aims to determine whether the geographical pattern of the external trade of foreign-owned enterprises in Brazil differs from that of domestic enterprises and whether, in the case of foreign enterprises, the region of origin of their capital is an important factor in determining that...
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Most of the large tariff reductions achieved in multilateral trade negotiations have involved the use of tariff-cutting formulas, such as the “Swiss” formula. But the wide variations in initial tariff rates between active participants may create a demand for new approaches in the Doha...
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The results of the Uruguay Round, show that the concessions given by developing countries were generally more valuable than those they received from industrial countries. I suggest that this outcome is explained by aggressive demands from industrial countries, and by the lack of resources at the...
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