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Assessing the Supply Chain Effect of Natural Disasters : Evidence from Chinese Manufacturers

World Trade Organization - 2021

This paper uses Chinese firm level data to detect the international propagation of adverse shocks triggered by the US hurricane season in 2005. We provide evidence that Chinese processing manufacturers with tight trade linkages to the United States reduced their intermediate imports from the...

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Illicit Trade and Infectious Diseases

World Trade Organization - 2020

We collect a novel dataset that covers about 130 countries and the six four-digit live animal categories in the Harmonized System (HS) over a sixteen-year period, to study the link between illicit trade in live animals and threat to animal health from infectious diseases.

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Why are Trade Agreements more Attractive in the Presence of Foreign Direct Investment?

World Trade Organization - 1998

This paper argues that interests of nationals and owners of home-based foreign capital in the formation of a Trade Agreements (TA) are not antagonistic, except under rather particular assumptions on initial tariffs among potential members. Further, if initial tariffs are endogenously determined...

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The evolution of services trade policy since the great recession

World Trade Organization - 2020

Are changes in services markets provoking reform, restrictions, or inertia? To address this question, we draw upon a new World Bank-WTO Services Trade Policy Database (STPD) to analyse the services trade policies of 68 economies in 23 subsectors across five broad areas—financial services,...

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Trade Policy Substitution : Theory and Evidence from Specific Trade Concerns

World Trade Organization - 2014

We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member in a given sector is affected by past reductions in applied tariffs. Employing an identification strategy based on “new measures”, we find evidence of a substitution of...

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Has the Multilateral Hong Kong Ministerial Decision on Duty Free Quota Free Market Access Provided a Breakthrough in the Least-Developed Countries' Export Performance?

World Trade Organization - 2016

This paper assesses the impact of the 2005 multilateral Hong Kong Ministerial decision on duty free quota free (DFQF) market access for products originating in Least developed countries (LDCs) on the latter's export performance. The analysis is conducted over a sample of 41 LDCs, with data...

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The WTO Global Trade Costs Index and Its Determinants

World Trade Organization - 2021

This study provides a decomposition of the WTO Global Trade Costs Index into five policy-relevant components: transport … and travel costs; information and transaction costs; ICT connectedness; trade policy and regulatory differences; and … governance quality. The WTO Global Trade Costs Index is based on a new methodology by Egger et al. (2021) that delivers …

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2007 WTO Public Forum "How Can the WTO Help Harness Globalisation?" : 04 - 05 October 07

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WTO Public Forum "How Can the WTO Help Harness Globalisation?" : 04 - 05 October 07

2008

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Assessing the Value of Future Accessions to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) : Some New Data Sources, Provisional Estimates, and an Evaluative Framework for Indivi...

World Trade Organization - 2011

information concerning the potential consequences of GPA accession, and a framework to assess related benefits and costs. Of … commitments under the Agreement – and their potential benefits and costs for individual acceding Parties. This Working Paper … potential benefits and costs of GPA accession for individual WTO Members/countries contemplating accession. The latter use of …

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