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surveys, on complaints by trading partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) or notifications by companies or countries … sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) against which trading partners issued complaints at the WTO. …
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Though the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) has failed, the original draft is likely to serve as a basis for future negotiations. This article gives a critical assessment of the draft from an industrial economics point of view. First, I summarize the contents of the agreement which is...
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exploring the possibility of open, transparent and non-discriminatory e-commerce trade rules in the WTO. India has not joined … this group as commitments in the WTO may reduce the ability of the government to promote and support domestic industry … understand the growth of the e-commerce sector globally and in India, the developments in the WTO, and India's position. Based on …
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The study suggests an approach to reduce India's sensitive list under SAFTA. The concept of Revealed Comparative Advantage has been used to pair the RCAs for products on India's sensitive list with the corresponding RCAs of the SAARC countries. Four categories of items are generated based on...
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This paper analyzes whether Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signed between the United States and Latin American countries during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits...
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Free Trade Agreements (FTA) attract significant interest, but after these treaties are signed not all exporters use them. We provide a model of heterogeneous utilization, also developing a novel method to estimate treaty-utilization costs. We later apply the model to estimate the evolution...
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This IDB Working Paper is intended to provide an overview of how the agricultural sector is treated in regional trade agreements (RTAs) involving Latin American countries, whose exports tend to be more oriented towards agriculture. The paper compares the treatment of agriculture in RTAs between...
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