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This paper was one input to the Australian Government’s decision to remove tariffs on imports from the least developed countries. The Commission’s analysis suggests that removing tariffs on imports from these countries could significantly boost imports from these countries, particularly of...
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There is a considerable body of analysis available that aims to quantify the economic and trade effects of textile and …. Different tools and approaches have thereby been used to evaluate the impacts of textile trade reform at the regional or global … textiles and clothing production and trade as the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) is implemented. There is pressure …
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trade deregulation. At the same time, the need of government in providing property rights is emphasized. · Hope this report …
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expenditures on tradables and non-tradables, trade openness and real interest differentials. On the basis of these fundamentals … misalignment appears to be small as well. The paper also discusses the implications of these findings with regard to trade …
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What determines sovereign risk? We study the London bond market from the 1870s to the 1930s. Our findings support conventional wisdom concerning the low credibility of the interwar gold standard. Before 1914 gold standard adherence effectively signalled credibility and shaved up to 30 basis...
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Most of the large tariff reductions achieved in multilateral trade negotiations have involved the use of tariff … demand for new approaches in the Doha Development Agenda. This paper surveys a range of formula options and examines new … to directly target how far they will move towards free trade, while providing some flexibility for trading off reductions …
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This study presents a survey of issues and concerns raised in the WTO's Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, with … analysed, and agro-food related TBT issues that might warrant further investigation with respect to their trade and economic … effects are identified. The document complements an earlier study on activities related to the WTO's SPS Committee. …
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Trade preferences towards developing countries do not seem to have been up to the expectations they created in the … which caused its gradual loss of relevance in international trade relationships. Finally, I consider the causes of GSP … failure and whether or not it is worthwhile to undertake its reform as a mechanism of unilateral trade liberalization …
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common market among ASEAN, China, South Korea, and Japan by establishing a free trade area covering the entire region. As the … of assessing its regional and bilateral measures consistent with the rules of the WTO, in particular, GATT Article XXIV … requirements that raise the problem of the concise interpretation of “substantially all the trade.” East Asian Financial Crisis of …
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