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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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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067227
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Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies
Antras, Pol - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on the level and nature of multinational firm activity. We examine aggregate data that captures the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757535
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Beyond Goods and Services : Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent Ftas Involving ASEAN Countries
Dayaratna-Banda, O. G.; Whalley, John - 2021
We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240991
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The Direct Substitution between Government and Private Consumption in East Asia
Kwan, Yum K. - 2006
Asia countries. Panel cointegrating regression uncovers a significantly positive elasticity of substitution between … government and private consumption, implying on average government and private consumption are substitutes in East Asia. Country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779586
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763469
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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 continues to negotiate with countries such as Japan, Panama, Uruguay or Argentina. Criticism of multiple regional trade agreements (RTAs) arises from a consistency test, but also from...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060253
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How Close is Asia to Already Being a Trade Bloc?
Li, Chunding - 2014
FTA bilateral and regional negotiations in Asia have developed quickly in the past decade moving Asia ever closer to an … another. For countries in Asia there is negotiation of a China-Japan-Korea agreement, a China-India agreement, a Trans … potential full Asia integration in the form of a trade bloc. Our results reveal that these large Asia economies can be close to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048052