virtue of its Common Commercial Policy it has always been a formidable trade policy actor, but over the last twen - ty years … trade and environmental policy actor. It then considers cases where the two roles complement or contradict each other … including; the Committee on Trade and Environment of the WTO, the Basel Convention, ‘leghold traps’, and the Biosafety Protocol …

This study estimates the trade potential for India using an augmented Gravity model and then attempts to determine the … importance of trade remedies. Based on the panel data, this Gravity model is the first-ever attempt to estimate India’s trade … potential in the pre- and post- global economic and financial crisis period. The estimates of India’s global trade potential …

If South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are to become constructively engaged in the next attempt by World Trade … Organization (WTO) members to liberalize trade multilaterally, they need to be convinced that there will be sufficient gains from … trade reform to warrant the inevitable costs of negotiation and adjustment. This paper provides new estimates of the likely …

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of the integration of Maghreb countries into a free trade area on … estimate the gains or the potential losses of various plans of trade integration (Free trade area for the Maghreb countries … trade in goods (and removing various regulatory non-tariff barriers in the process) could reach at least USD 350 million …

This paper shows a new exposition of the Trade Diversion Effect when Free Trade Agreements are created. Hub and spoke … type of trade networks cause systemic overproduction, and member countries exit from the markets, whereas perfectly … pursuing Free Trade Agreements with various countries, but accumulation of bilateral negotiations may cause Trade Diversion …

. Our simulations show that the various modalities of trade liberalization may have different impacts on the welfare, the … rate of growth and the sectoral trade balance of these two countries. More precisely, our findings justify the interest of … a gradual and asymmetrical agreement. In addition, the free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and Morocco will have a …

When impacts of WTO market access proposals are analyzed with economic trade models, it is necessary to aggregate … tariff cuts are aggregated from the HS6-digit tariff line level with the simple and trade weighted average, the Trade … Restrictiveness Index (TRI) and the Mercantilist Trade Restrictiveness Index (MTRI) by considering bound and applied tariff rates. The …

members. OIC accounts for 22.48 percent of world population, 6.64 percent of world GDP, and 9.1 percent of world trade as of … nearly 50% of natural gas reserves of the world. However, the level of economic integration and volume of trade among OIC … economic cooperation among the member countries as a key strategy for higher economic growth and welfare. Protocol on …

trade” criteria. Based on a CGE approach, the paper then looks at the implications of EPA negotiations on third countries … and its linkages with the ongoing Doha negotiations, in particular on how the future EPA agreements could be non-trade …

the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing on January 1, 2005, substantial restraints remain on U.S. trade in these sectors … increase U.S. welfare by $2.0 billion (net) while decreasing U.S. textile and apparel output by 9.0 percent. Quantitative … restraints continue to have considerable effects on U.S. welfare: their elimination provides over half of the welfare gain …