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dumping actions against China and trade restrictions against textile and apparel exports. We discuss emerging WTO and non-WTO …We discuss China's stance in the WTO post-accession, noting the many issues with implementation of China's accession … terms by 2007. We evaluate how much benefit China can realistically receive from WTO membership given current problems with …
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possible impacts of each variant. We also speculate as to how the world trading system may evolve in the next few decades as … financial arrangements in the WTO and IMF, and eventually movement to linked global trade and environmental policy bargaining …
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Several of the recently negotiated regional trade agreements (Canada-U.S., NAFTA, E.C.-Hungary/Poland/Czeck and Slovak Republics) contain significantly fewer concessions by the large countries to smaller countries than vice versa. Yet, it is small countries that have sought them and see...
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Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...
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This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the … upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this … paper also argues that despite (and beyond) Singapore, one has to go further than the GATT/WTO to see the potential …
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differ across countries and issue areas. Case studies of export subsidization in Korea, Brazil, Turkey, India, Kenya, and …
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Despite the well-known gains from trade, trade liberalization is politically one of the most contentious actions that a government can take. We propose and formalize a new argument, having to do with uncertainty, which is complementary to the usual explanations for why that is the case; many...
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This paper discusses the recent regional trade agreements that China has concluded rapidly following accession to the … WTO in 2002. Agreements are in place with Hong Kong, Macao, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand, and are either in …
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country, single period numerical general equilibrium model which captures China and her major trading partners and examine the … outcomes of trade policy bargaining solutions (bargaining over tariffs and financial transfers) over time as China grows more … parameterizations. This yields a measure of both absolute and relative gain to China from bargaining. We calibrate our model to base …
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China has been increasingly active on the regional trade agreement front over since WTO Accession occurred in 2001 …. Those in prospect are with major trading areas (US, Japan, Korea, and India). All are driven in part by China's needs for … export access to fuel continuing export lead growth, but other elements enter including using regional agreements to offset …
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