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This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the … negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market opening with the threat of unilateral trade sanctions (such as Section 301 … areas where U.S. domestic interests are homogeneous and concentrated. Even in the case of tariff negotiations where any …
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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 dumping actions against China and trade restrictions...
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stylized facts about these interconnected high-stakes international negotiations. We use detailed product-level offer and …. We organize the empirical analysis around a theoretical model of multi-party trade negotiations motivated by the terms …
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We describe recent work on the theory of trade agreements that speaks to the purpose and design of GATT. Our discussion proceeds in three steps. First, we examine the purpose of a trade agreement. In both the traditional economic and the political-economy approaches to the study of trade...
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Contrary to the recent literature that concludes that the GATT/WTO has been completely ineffective in promoting world … imports estimated at about 44 percent of world trade. The same has not been true for developing country members, although …
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This paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly...
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We analyze whether preferential trade agreements (PTAs) affect the incidence and pattern of antidumping (AD) filings. We estimate AD provisions in PTAs have decreased the incidence of intra-PTA AD cases by 33-55% and have increased the number of AD actions against non-PTA members by 10-30%. The...
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motley assortment of regional trade agreements is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade … and uses it to structure a narrative of world trade liberalisation since 1947. The logic is then used to project the world …
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How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this …
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East Asian countries have become much more active in utilizing the WTO dispute settlement system to assert their legal rights. The dispute settlement experience so far for these countries has shown strong tendency of domestic governments to defend economic interest of major industries. Their...
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