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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Policy Uncertainty, Trade and Welfare : Theory and Evidence for China and the U.S
Handley, Kyle - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459285
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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