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Asia accounts for more than 30% of world GDP and contributes half of the global growth in recent years. Despite high …
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We develop a new theoretical framework of trade agreement (TA) formation, called a ‘parallel contest', that emphasizes the political fight over TA ratification within countries. TA ratification is inherently uncertain in each country, where anti- and pro-trade interest groups contest each...
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) Agreement within the GATT/WTO system …
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This paper highlights the severity of China’s AD problems, and high concentration of AD actions taken by the top initiators, noting that China can offer a higher level of economic integration in an RTA in exchange for improved regional AD provisions. Case studies on RTAs give precedents in...
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mechanisms. Whether these represent a partial replacement of the World Trade Organization (WTO) process for newly negotiated … they are part of what we term the non-WTO. This paper aims to document and characterize the agreements and analyze their … reciprocity based on global trade liberalization or largely represent diplomatic protocol alongside significant WTO disciplines is …
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Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known -- and traditionally presumed exogenous -- “trade-cost elasticity” plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow...
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While “mega FTAs” and WTO-driven efforts at multilateral liberalisation dominate the agenda, customs unions (CU) are … the silent success story of regional integration. Throughout the world, CUs have been superseding earlier FTAs, as new …
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South Africa, may not attract many world leading MNCs since their markets are small, but could attract smaller regional …
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the “coherence gap” in global governance. This paper examines the contribution that the WTO can make in its three areas of … argument that could be made for the use of WTO-triggered trade actions to enforce cooperative behaviour towards rebalancing …
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as the WTO (and specifically in the Doha Round) both countries have supported each others' positions, and especially so …
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