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Social policies are likely to have an ever-more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the new World Trade Organization (WTO). Many developing countries perceive the entwining of these social issues with trade policy as a threat to both their sovereignty and their...
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This paper argues that further moves to liberalize trade and to implement existing GATT disciplines may have a greater … that current GATT rules and case law provide scope for both the application <MI>and<D> non-application of existing domestic … between domestic and foreign products. Little use has been made of the GATT in this connection, suggesting that exploration of …
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While environmental and labour issues are not new to the GATT, nor to other trade policy fora, they are likely to have …
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(WTO), its predecessor the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the Generalized System of Preferences … to find positive significant effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade. The GSP does seem to have a strong effect, and is …
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.e. ignoring both agriculture and trade with developing countries) may be fairly limited. Compared with a scenario of GATT failure …
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This Paper considers the economic analysis of non-tariff barriers in the context of disputes under Art. III of the GATT …
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The US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulation mandates, subject to a civil penalty, producers to achieve a certain fleet average fuel economy on sales of new passenger cars. Analysing the incentive effects of CAFE, we find that it affords differential tax treatment to car models with...
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: 1) the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); 2) the … indicate that OECD membership (but neither GATT/WTO nor IMF membership) has had a consistently large positive effect on trade. …
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In this paper we provide an economic assessment of the Uruguay Round agreements on tariffs, textiles and clothing, and agriculture, highlighting scale economies, imperfect competition, and dynamic linkages between trade, incomes, and investment. We present estimates of the welfare effects of the...
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In this paper production, trade and welfare effects of European integration are discussed, with particular emphasis on the effects for the EC and EFTA. Insight from previous partial and general equilibrium analyses of the internal market are reviewed, and new model simulations are presented. In...
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