costs and trade policy cooperation. Tariffs have the effect of attracting foreign direct investment to the benefit of … costs facilitates free trade. This logic is applied to a three-country model to examine cross-sectional relationships. It is … found that if any country is too distant from the others, then global free trade is not attainable. Rather, if two of the …

Rules of origin arrangements under the Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER) were … report recommended that the CER rules of origin, which confine access to trade concessions to goods produced in Australia or …

A stylized pattern of interindustry trade between developing and developed regions identifies the former as specialists … to the open economy, offers a new approach to analyzing imperfect competition and interregional trade. …

remains surprisingly closed to external trade in products and capital, and suggests that costs of international trade in goods … can explain the evidence. Given the trade costs, a substantial real depreciation of the dollar will be needed to close the …

importance in trade talks, because of the large number of countries involved, the wider dispersion in initial tariffs (e ….g. tariff peaks) and gaps between bound and applied tariff rates. This paper resents a two country intra-industry trade model …

This paper aims to evaluate the trade potential of manufactured products between the members of the EU25 in the … project the “natural” trade relations between them. Relatively to previous evaluations of trade potential, we include in the … gravity model a variable related to the countries’ complementarities in terms of their Commodity Composition of Trade and we …

significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization like the nineties. …This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … agreement with China on sectoral and aggregate employment rates. According to this, trade with the PRC did not have a …