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rules with the creation of the WTO. Our results suggest that, although GATT subsidy rules were typically viewed as weak and … inadequate while the WTO subsidy rules are seen as representing a significant strengthening of multilateral disciplines on … subsidies, the key changes introduced by the WTO subsidy rules may ultimately do more harm than good to the multilateral trading …
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hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues …
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India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of … organize our thinking about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The …
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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 issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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the amount of duty to the amount of the subsidy. This paper examines a generalized model of imperfect competition with … capital subsidies and shows the conditions under which a countervailing duty will offset the effect of the subsidy on exports …. In addition, the paper considers whether profit shifting motives for a subsidy still exist even when this maximum duty is …
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In this paper I present evidence on the effectiveness of AD actions. Using a data set based on the line-item tariff codes identified in the cases, I examine the trade patterns of both countries named in the petition and those countries not subject to the investigation. Several important findings...
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We analyze whether preferential trade agreements (PTAs) affect the incidence and pattern of antidumping (AD) filings …
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We review the growing literature on the effects of antidumping, a trade policy that has emerged as the most serious … impediment to international trade. Over the past 25 years countries have increasingly turned to antidumping in order to offer … protection to import-competing industries. Antidumping is a trade policy where the institutional process surrounding the …
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We formalize the notion that GATT exceptions such as antidumping and escape clause actions can act as insurance for … all, but rather might entail an export tax. We also show that a tax cum subsidy policy (i.e., taxing all sectors in order …
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The majority of the world's countries have antidumping (AD) statutes in place, hundreds of AD actions occur annually … dumping and antidumping activity, with particular emphasis on the evolution of the literature and the most recent …
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