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data on tariffs and trade covering 130 countries. We show that regionalism has delivered limited effective liberalization …
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For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization affects manufacturing trade over the period 1986-2006 and show that, on average, the effect of distance has fallen whereas the effects of proximity and regional trade agreements...
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This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilitation Indicators (TFIs) released recently by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...
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. We calibrate such a model to China's trade with the rest of the world and explore two country tariff games using 2005 …
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If a free trade agreement (FTA) is characterized by the exchange of market access with a large and competitive trading partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external tariff cuts. This rent destruction effect of an FTA can...
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China's because of its high tariffs but in the long run, India's gains are higher than China's once its tariff levels are …As revealed by the trade intensity indices, India and the People's Republic of China have significant bilateral trade … losses in imports of both India and China due to different preferential trading arrangements and free-trade arrangements …
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Opposing theoretical predictions on the effects of trade preferences on multilateral tariff cuts point to the need for empirical analysis to determine whether preferential trade agreements promote or hinder multilateral trade liberalization. This paper examines the impact of Japan's trade...
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declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … the number of firms engaged in China-U.S. trade. These results are robust to other potential explanations of the …
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The United Kingdom has opted to leave the European Union. The trade and welfare consequences of this decision are large; most studies predict a trade and welfare loss for both the UK and the EU. The UK parliament has indicated that it aims for new and ambitious trade agreements following Brexit,...
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, assuming that the agreement would eliminate all transatlantic tariffs and reduce non-tariff barriers as other deep PTAs have …
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