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This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the outset is: does bilateralism enhance or jeopardize multilateralism? The U.S.-Taiwan experience seems to suggest a grossly negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market...
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regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations … WTO legal framework in light of our results, arguing that it does a reasonably thorough job of policing regulatory …
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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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. However, they are likely to have a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the new World Trade … more prominent, whether the WTO is an appropriate forum to discuss them, and how they affect developing and other economies …
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What are the potential benefits from establishing international rules for the conduct of trade policy and how should these rules be designed? These questions are of central importance to the evolution of national trade policies in the post-war era, a period in which an elaborate system of...
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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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investment measures' (TRIMs) such as local-content requirements and minimum-export requirements have recently come under official …
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This paper calculates international income transfers which implement a Pareto optimal trade equilibrium in a world …
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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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world agricultural prices. Reduced agricultural price distortions among major supplying nations are predicted to increase … basic food prices and decrease some important export prices such as those for coffee and cotton. It appears that raising … food prices paid by food importers must be bad for them, while reducing world coffee and cotton prices appears bad for …
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