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This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These include the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and various blocked deals. We use a numerical 13-country global general...
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FTA bilateral and regional negotiations in Asia have developed quickly in the past decade moving Asia ever closer to an … another. For countries in Asia there is negotiation of a China-Japan-Korea agreement, a China-India agreement, a Trans … potential full Asia integration in the form of a trade bloc. Our results reveal that these large Asia economies can be close to …
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free trade effects which will benefit all countries (not just member countries) in the world, and the positive effects of …
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exporters including Malaysia. On the import side, the falls in world oil prices impact sharply on import values. We also compare …
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This paper emphasizes the range of factors which enter country calculations to seek regional trading arrangements. These include conventional access benefits, but extend to safe haven concerns, the use of trade arrangements to underpin security arrangements, and tactical interplay between...
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Several of the recently negotiated regional trade agreements (Canada-U.S., NAFTA, E.C.-Hungary/Poland/Czeck and Slovak Republics) contain significantly fewer concessions by the large countries to smaller countries than vice versa. Yet, it is small countries that have sought them and see...
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Preferential liberalization of trade in services is a central feature of the new regionalism. "GATS-Plus" and "GATS …
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This paper assesses the impact thus far that the termination of trade restrictions under the Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA) which up to the end of 2004 applied to exports of clothing and textiles in key OECD markets has had on Asian suppliers. The speculation prior to MFA termination had been...
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(1994) and the GATS there is an incompatibility between measures of world trade in goods and services. Measures of goods …
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increases, and other country's production decreases compared with the case of no BTAs. With the contraction of world trade flows … caused by the financial crisis, carbon motivated BTAs offer a prospect of a compounding effect in a world which is going …This paper discusses the size of impact of carbon motivated border tax adjustments on world trade. We report numerical …
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