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Labor Standards and Human Rights: Implications for International Trade and Investment
Brown, Drusilla K.; Deardorff, Alan V.; Stern, Robert M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University …
The establishment of international labor standards linked to market access within the WTO is among the proposals … WTO Charter and, previously, the GATT are virtually silent on the potential inhumanity of globally integrated goods and … standards ultimately gained access to the process of rules-setting in the WTO indirectly through Article XXIV governing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492740
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Free Trade Agreements and Governance of the Global Trading System
Brown, Andrew G.; Stern, Robert M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2011
This paper explores how far free trade agreements (FTAs) have strengthened or weakened global governance of the trading system. We open with an analysis of the altered political and economic context within which countries have come, in recent years, to assign a new importance to regional and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008837885
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Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trade-Policy Options for the United States and Japan
Brown, Drusilla K.; Deardorff, Alan V.; Stern, Robert M - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2002
, Japan, and other major trading countries/regions of the Doha Round of WTO multilateral trade negotiations and a variety of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005551401
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Developing Countries' Stake in the Doha Round
Brown, Drusilla K.; Deardorff, Alan V.; Stern, Robert M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2003
In this paper we discuss the various aspects of the Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations in the WTO that offer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005551447
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Developing Country Interests in the Forthcoming WTO Negotiations.
Stern, R.M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2000
This paper reviews the main issues in the forthcoming WTO negotiations, including: a review of the accomplishments of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146496
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Countervailing Duty against China: Opening a Pandora’s Box in the WTO System?
Ahn, Dukgeun; Lee, Jieun - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2011
China. Although the WTO panel rejected China's claim of WTO-inconsistency regarding the current US practices, the US Court … violates domestic regulation. Finally, the WTO Appellate Body ruled that this 'double remedy' violates the rule to levy CVDs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019880
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Fairness in the WTO Trading System
Brown, Andrew G.; Stern, Robert M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2010
We first provide a brief critique of the utilitarian principle as a guide to fairness in the world trading system. We then turn to the alternative conception of fairness in terms of economic equity, exploring the meaning of its two components: equality of opportunity and distributive justice. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008679146
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Manufacturing Fetishism: The Neo-Mercantilist Preoccupation with Protecting Manufacturing
Cassidy, Alecia Waite; Tower, Edward; Wang, Xiaolu - Research Seminar in International Economics, University …
Two common views are that a country cannot develop without a strong manufacturing base and that trade restrictions are essential to facilitate the development of that strong manufacturing base and thus spur economic growth. We ask: <ul><li>Does a strong manufacturing share of GDP facilitate economic...</li></ul>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010970435
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Trade Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for ASEAN and Other Asian Countries
Deardorff, Alan V. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822524
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Post-Doha Trade Policy Options for a Small Country
Deardorff, Alan V. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2010
This paper uses a partial equilibrium model of two small countries, within a large world economy, implementing reciprocal tariff cuts on each otherÕs exports in a regional trade agreement (RTA) and compares the effects with unilateral most-favored-nation (MFN) tariff cuts. The reciprocal cuts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492904