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China's Post Accession WTO Stance
Mallon, Glenda - 2004
dumping actions against China and trade restrictions against textile and apparel exports. We discuss emerging WTO and non-WTO …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468044
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International Trade and Domestic Regulation
Staiger, Robert W. - 2009
regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations … WTO legal framework in light of our results, arguing that it does a reasonably thorough job of policing regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463108
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Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas
Dong, Yan - 2008
, forms and possible impacts of each variant. We also speculate as to how the world trading system may evolve in the next few … trade and financial arrangements in the WTO and IMF, and eventually movement to linked global trade and environmental policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464216
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International Rules and Institutions for Trade Policy
Staiger, Robert W. - 1994
What are the potential benefits from establishing international rules for the conduct of trade policy and how should these rules be designed? These questions are of central importance to the evolution of national trade policies in the post-war era, a period in which an elaborate system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473937
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The New Regionalism : Trade Liberalization or Insurance?
Perroni, Carlo - 1994
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/10012474308
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GATT-Think
Bagwell, Kyle - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470726
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Multilateral Trade Bargaining : A First Look at the GATT Bargaining Records
Bagwell, Kyle - 2015
This paper empirically examines recently declassified data from the GATT/WTO on tariff bargaining. We document eight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457180
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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 1996
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 … paper also argues that despite (and beyond) Singapore, one has to go further than the GATT/WTO to see the potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473066
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An Economic Theory of GATT
Bagwell, Kyle - 1997
Despite the important roel played by GATT in the world economy, economist have nto developed a unified theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472768
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Reciprocity, Non-discrimination and Preferential Agreements in the Multilateral Trading System
Bagwell, Kyle - 1997
GATT and its successor, the WTO. We show that GATT's principle of reciprocity serves to neutralize the world-price effects … provided that the externa- lities associated with trade intervention travel through world prices. We then establish that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472892