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The New Regionalism : Trade Liberalization or Insurance?
Perroni, Carlo - 2010
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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Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … illustrates that, statically, globalization (defined as reduced trade barriers) has ambiguous effects on welfare, while …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …
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Bilateral Trade as a Development Instrument Under Global Trade Restrictions
Nashashibi, Karim A. - 2021
In their striving toward development, a number of less developed countries have espoused bilateral trade as yet another policy instrument allowing them to increase their acquisition of foreign resources. This has been particularly true of the trade of India, Pakistan, and Egypt, on which some...
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China's New Regional Trade Agreements
Antkiewicz, Agata; Whalley, John - 2010
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 negotiation or under discussion with South Africa, Chile, India,...
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China's Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements
Li, Chunding - 2014
China has been increasingly active on the regional trade agreement front over since WTO Accession occurred in 2001. These agreements, unlike the US and EU cases, follow no template form of agreement but vary substantially one among the others and are in part an attempt to customize agreements to...
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China's New Regional Trade Agreements
Antkiewicz, Agata; Whalley, John - 2022
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 negotiation or under discussion with South Africa, Chile, India,...
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Antebellum Tariff Politics : Coalition Formation and Shifting Regional Interests
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021
Throughout U.S. history, import tariffs have been put on a sustained downward path in only two instances: from the early-1830s until the Civil War and from the mid-1930s to the present. This paper analyzes how the movement toward higher tariffs in the 1820s was reversed for the rest of the...
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Spaghetti Regionalism or Strategic Foreign Trade : Some Evidence for Mexico
Ibarra-Yunez, Alejandro - 2021
After signing ten free trade agreements between 1993 and 2001, Mexico as a world leader in foreign trade policy …
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Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2016
How do global supply chain linkages modify countries' incentives to impose import protection? Are these linkages empirically important determinants of trade policy? To address these questions, we introduce supply chain linkages into a workhorse terms-of-trade model of trade policy with political...
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How Do the "Gats-Plus" and "Gats-Minus" Characteristics of Regional Service Agreements Affect Trade in Services?
Zhou, Nianli - 2014
Preferential liberalization of trade in services is a central feature of the new regionalism. "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus" have become the distinctive characteristics of the service RTAs and this paper aims to investigate and distinguish the different effect of the "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus"...
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