Japanese market. The total value of imports from LDCs has been increasing, but the imports granted both zero tariffs and … is a relatively small obstacle: Trade is affected more strongly by other factors, such as infrastructure, nontariff …

This paper empirically examines what kinds of elements affect the gap in free trade agreement (FTA) utilization with …

This paper empirically investigates how far free trade agreements (FTAs) successfully lower tariff rates and non …. Membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) does not contribute greatly to reducing tariff rates but does play a significant …

This paper proposes new measures of the liberalization level of free trade agreements (FTAs). Our measures take three …

The literature on the use of free trade agreements (FTAs) has recently been growing because it is becoming more … in trade. For example, compared with the use of customs data on FTA utilization in imports, when using certificates of …

This paper examines empirically the impacts of sharing rules of origin (RoOs) with other ASEAN+1 free trade agreements …

The literature has revealed the positive impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs) on export prices by employing product …-level trade data. This paper empirically examines the impacts of FTAs on import prices at the firm level. We focus on firm …-level imports in China from ASEAN countries by employing China’s firm-product-level trade data. As a result, controlling for firm …

's export-led industrialization has been attained through a particular policy focus upon high "trade divergence" sectors … relevant policy arguments, together with static consideration of trade creation and diversion. A formal statistical test of the …

distribution of population and income, population pyramids of member countries, and trade relations of member economies. …

In this paper I re-examined the trade enhancing effects of ethnic Chinese networks, found by Rauch and Trindade (2002 …. It is found that the former has stronger trade enhancing effects than the latter. This shows that the effects of ethnic … networks on international trade can be generalized beyond the ethnic Chinese, and the ’cohesiveness’ of the ethnic network …