The paper seeks to provide an overview of the present state of debate on trade, environment and the GATT for developing … countries. Potential for green protectionism and relevant GATT rules are discussed in three areas: i) environmental product … of direct and indirect effects on trade and environment and the GATT debate on it …

the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This paper uses a global, multisector, computable … the automotive, textiles and apparel sectors, more liberalized agricultural trade, and other trade facilitation measures …. The results show that together these provisions would adversely affect trade in the automotive, textiles and apparel …

This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food … on estimates of changes in food prices due to the Round obtained in previous studies, and on detailed data on food trade …

This paper analyzes the appropriate sequencing between accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the … implementation of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) customs union and whether the latter facilitates or delays WTO accession for … WTO accession, this may cause delays that benefit some countries at the expense of others. The paper simulates the welfare …

general equilibrium (CGE) trade model calibrated to 165 countries. The first scenario estimates effects from potential U ….S. auto tariffs. The second analyzes a 'transactional deal' between the U.S. and China to close their bilateral deficit. The … to capture dynamic effects, such as those stemming from trade policy uncertainty. More generally, our results both …

economies, has lagged behind in trade liberalization. This delay has adversely affected production efficiency and consumer … benefit from these trade-enhancing initiatives …

paper argues that, in violation of the spirit of the WTO Agreement in Agriculture, the special agricultural safeguards have …

Is the recent proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) in Asia a healthy development, or runs the risk of … results show that membership in the Asian RTAs considered in this study have not, to date, occurred at the expense of trade … and multilateral liberalization, could run the risk of leading to costly trade diversion …

We revisit the question of the quantitative benefits of WTO trade agreements in a setup that is non-standard from the … traditional trade policy point of view. We show that in a New Keynesian model, unilateral trade liberalization reduces welfare due … to terms-of-trade deterioration, creating an incentive for a trade agreement. For realistic parameter values, the value …