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This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the … evolution of the trade and environment issue. Developments seem likely to be driven in the next few years as much by factors … outside the GATT/WTO as well as within it, as new global environmental arrangements, some with potentially large trade …
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analysis; thus, if these aims are pursued as stated, then we conclude that they are unlikely to deliver the meaningful trade … membership into the world trading system, the WTO may face a "latecomers" problem that, while occurring also in earlier rounds … deliver trade gains for developing countries …
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This paper discusses both the potential contribution that trade policy initiatives can make towards the achievement of … motivated geographical trade arrangements, including carbon free trade areas. We first suggest that trade policy is likely to be … next several decades will be growth more so than trade and its composition, and in turn, the size of trade seemingly …
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This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the … negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market opening with the threat of unilateral trade sanctions (such as Section 301 … action) tend to encourage trade preferences and U.S. negotiators are inclined to accept such preferential arrangements in …
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We analyze whether preferential trade agreements (PTAs) affect the incidence and pattern of antidumping (AD) filings … suggest a protection analogue to the "trade creation-trade diversion" impact of PTAs. PTA members are spared from AD actions …
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This paper presents a new model of the domino effect which is used to generate an empirical index of how "contagious" FTAs are with respect to third nations. We test our contagion hypothesis together with alternative specifications of interdependence and other political, economical and...
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This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less generous than it appears because of low product coverage or complex rules of origin. Thus lowering...
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