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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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. Intuitively, unilateral liberalization by one country has the effect of increasing the incentives for the export lobby in the …
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in all world markets and to help secure 20 percent of the Japanese semiconductor market for foreign firms within five … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …
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This paper exploits information from two different datasets to provide a novel and multi-dimensional picture of the engagement of all sub-Saharan African countries in global value chains (GVCs). It documents in detail the nature of the underlying data and the way it is used to construct several...
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Britain contrary to received wisdom was not a free trader for most of the 1800s and, despite repeal of the Corn Laws, continued to have higher tariffs than the French until the last quarter of the century. War with Louis fourteenth from 1689 led to the end of all trade between Britain and France...
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turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO … theory-consistent measure of TPU and estimate that it can explain between 22-30% of Chinese exports to the US after WTO …We assess the impact of U.S. trade policy uncertainty (TPU) toward China in a tractable general equilibrium framework …
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analysis on the BRI corridors; and analysis conducted through World Bank projects involving BRI economies. A key finding is …
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This paper shows how unilateral liberalization in one country can increase the voting support for reciprocal reduction in trade barriers in a partner country. When trade policies are determined simultaneously in the two countries, we show the possibility of multiple political equilibria -...
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our theoretical results to China's 2001 WTO accession, we find that China's tariff reductions exceeded reciprocity norms …We formalize the GATT/WTO principle of reciprocity in workhorse quantitative trade models, characterizing reciprocal …, increasing real incomes but amplifying the manufacturing employment dislocation - the China Shock - in the United States and …
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. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …
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