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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks
Chen, Tain-Jy - 1995
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473546
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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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Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Policy : An Interest-Group Approach
Krishna, Pravin - 2003
. Intuitively, unilateral liberalization by one country has the effect of increasing the incentives for the export lobby in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469067
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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry
Irwin, Douglas A. - 1994
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474180
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Trade Policy and Economic Growth : A Skeptic's Guide to Cross-National Evidence
Rodriguez, Francisco - 1999
Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471715
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The Trade Reform Wave of 1985-1995
Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The decade from 1985 to 1995 was an unprecedented period of declining barriers to global trade. The reform wave was especially pronounced in developing countries where overvalued currencies were eliminated, quantitative import restrictions dismantled, and import tariffs reduced. What accounts...
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The Uruguay Round and Welfare in Some Distorted Agricultural Economies
Anderson, James E. - 1997
world agricultural prices. Reduced agricultural price distortions among major supplying nations are predicted to increase … basic food prices and decrease some important export prices such as those for coffee and cotton. It appears that raising … food prices paid by food importers must be bad for them, while reducing world coffee and cotton prices appears bad for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472901
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Economics and Politics of Rice Policy in Japan : A Perspective on the Uruguay Round
Hayami, Yujiro - 1995
This paper reviews the recent problems of the opening of Japan's rice market and evaluates the Japanese government's rice policy from both an economic and political viewpoint. The Japanese government made strenuous resistance to the opening of Japan's rice market during the negotiations on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473528
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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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Bringing GATT into the Core
Kowalczyk, Carsten - 1993
This paper calculates international income transfers which implement a Pareto optimal trade equilibrium in a world …
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