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The Development of Trade Policies in the Asia and Pacific Region Over the Past 30 Years Since 1989
World Trade Organization - 2020
This paper reviews the main developments of trade and related policies and measures in the Asia and Pacific region during the 30 years since establishment, in 1989, of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM). The objectives of the TPRM include facilitating the smooth functioning of the...
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Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead for the WTO Trade Monitoring Exercise
World Trade Organization - 2020
A little over a decade has passed since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008. Shortly after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank, an internal Secretariat Task Force was established by the WTO Director-General to monitor the trade-related developments associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012884406
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An Economic Analysis of the US-China Trade Conflict
World Trade Organization - 2020
This paper provides an economic analysis of the trade conflict between the US and China, providing an overview of the tariff increases, a discussion of the background of the trade conflict, and an analysis of the economic effects of the trade conflict, based both on empirics (ex post analysis)...
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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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Trade Policy Substitution : Theory and Evidence from Specific Trade Concerns
World Trade Organization - 2014
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 non-tariff measures for tariffs both in the sample of TBT and in the sample of …. These results are consistent with our theoretical model, which predicts policy substitution between tariffs and standards in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882839
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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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Expect the Unexpected? LDC GATS Commitments as Internationally Credible Policy Indicators? The Example of Mali
World Trade Organization - 2011
There is a stark contrast between the ambitious investment promotion efforts of many least developed countries (LDCs) and their often minimal commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Service (GATS). At a time of urgent need to address domestic infrastructure and investment gaps, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012883520
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012884408
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Trade and tariffs : trade grows as tariffs Decline
World Trade Organization - 2015
been a 15 per cent reduction in average tariffs applied by WTO members. This brochure, produced to mark the WTO’s 20th … anniversary, looks at the evolution of trade and tariffs over the past 20 years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012883270
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Trade and Tariffs : Trade Grows as Tariffs Decline
World Trade Organization - 2015
been a 15 per cent reduction in average tariffs applied by WTO members. This brochure, produced to mark the WTO’s 20th … anniversary, looks at the evolution of trade and tariffs over the past 20 years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013544301