intended to remedy the gross violations of labor and human rights that accompany international trade and investment. Yet, the … creation of customs unions and free trade agreements and, more importantly, the 1971 GSP Decision permitting special and … mechanism for linking ILO-established labor standards, monitoring by the ILO, and enforcement through the threat of lost trade …

We have used the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to simulate the economic effects on the United States …, Japan, and other major trading countries/regions of the Doha Round of WTO multilateral trade negotiations and a variety of … regional/bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) involving the United States and Japan. We estimate that an assumed reduction of …

In this paper we discuss the various aspects of the Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations in the WTO that offer … potential benefits for developing countries. We then use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to simulate the … services that may be negotiated in the Doha Round, as well as a variety of regional free trade agreements (FTAs). We estimate …

trade with a large capital-abundant economy, can be induced to shift resources into more capital-intensive production than … internationally mobile, both an increase in its capital stock and an increase in trade. These results arise in a model in which both a …

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) aspires to become a state-of-the-art trade agreement linking 12 countries on both … sides of the Pacific. In addition to establishing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) among these countries, negotiators are … pursuing a long list of other issues, both trade-related and non-trade related. This paper examines the likely effects of the …

reciprocal tariff cuts on each otherÕs exports in a regional trade agreement (RTA) and compares the effects with unilateral most … countryÕs trade. The welfare effects of a countryÕs own tariff cut on imports are also compared to the effects on its welfare of …. Implications of the analysis are that, if multilateral trade liberalization is unlikely, then small countries should seek to form …

This paper uses trade theory to examine the effects of trade liberalization on countries that do not participate in it …. These include both countries that fail to participate in multilateral trade negotiations, and also countries that lie … outside of preferential trading arrangements such as free trade areas. The analysis suggests that, while it is theoretically …

this is quite consistent with economic theory, including the literature on the political economy of trade policy. I also …