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Trade (GATT) and subsequent World Trade Organization (WTO) on choice of policy instruments, as well as how multilateral …
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Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most … protection to provide. First, we find evidence consistent with the theory of endogenous trade policy: larger industries that face …
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How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...
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represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …
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established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify negotiating priorities. This paper … uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to investigate three areas in which it is frequently alleged that currently …
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The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...
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countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …
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subject to the combined use of these TTBs before applying these measures to new data drawn from the World Bank's Temporary …
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the World Bank in response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Given trends in the imposition of new crisis …
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Is there evidence from China's pre-WTO accession period that newly imposed U.S. or EU import restrictions deflect Chinese exports to third markets? The authors examine this question by drawing on a newly constructed data set of U.S. and EU product-level import restrictions on Chinese trade...
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