reciprocity that have to be met in order to realize greater fairness in multilateral trade negotiations. Next, we comment on …

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 …

This paper explores how far free trade agreements (FTAs) have strengthened or weakened global governance of the trading … years, to assign a new importance to regional and bilateral trade agreements in their trade policies. We then consider each … of the main provisions included in FTAs and comment on how these may separately affect the management of trade relations …

International trade in services also provides an assessment of how policy makers can further bolster their service … include the reduction of barriers to services trade across all sectors and the promotion of health- and environment … the most important, because it focuses on the need to ensure trade openness, which helps ensure the access to services and …

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 …

We use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to assess the economic effects of the U.S. bilateral FTAs … barriers. Rules of origin and other restrictive measures and the non-trade aspects of the FTAs are not taken into account due … United States and its FTA partners adopted unilateral free trade and especially if multilateral free trade was adopted by all …

We use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to assess the economic effects of the Free Trade Area of the … of the model is that it incorporates some aspects of trade with imperfect competition in the manufacturing and services … restrictive measures and the non-trade aspects of the FTAA are not taken into account due to data constraints. The computational …

This paper addresses the issues of whether the linking of core labor standards with multilateral or bilateral trade …

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 …