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other pacific countries are included, China is notable for its exclusion from the process thus far. This paper uses … numerical simulation methods to assess the potential effects of a TPP agreement on China and the other participating countries …. Simulation results reveal that China will be hurt by TPP initiatives, but the negative effects are relatively small given the …
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This paper analyses policy interdependence under flexible exchange rates and its implications for middle-income countries in the Pacific area. In the first part of the paper, the consequences of strategic behavior among industrial countries are illustrated by means of a simple diagram. It is...
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This is the second of a sequence of papers on international flows of merchandise trade among fifteen Pacific Basin countries and between them and eleven regions in the Rest of the World. In the first paper in this sequence (Hickman, Kuroda and Lau (1977)) we presented annual data on bilateral...
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This is the first of a sequence of papers on international flows of merchandise trade among fifteen Pacific Basin countries and between them and eleven regions in the Rest of the World. The basic purpose of this report is to present and document annual data on bilateral flows of exports in...
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I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has increased the stability and predictability of trade flows. I use a large data set covering annual bilateral trade flows between over 175...
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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 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 against textile and apparel exports. We discuss emerging WTO and non …
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This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key … their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002. While it would seem that China will have extraordinarily open markets for … implementation of China's WTO commitments, and following dispute settlement might retaliate in the future were these agreed changes …
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China's rapid rise in the global economy following its 2001 WTO entry has raised questions about its economic impact on … the rest of the world. In this paper, we focus on the U.S. market and potential consumer benefits. We find that the China … attention in the literature, is the U.S. granting permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to China. A second, new channel we …
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This is the third of a sequence of papers on international flows of trade among fifteen Pacific Basin (PB) countries and between them and eleven regions in the Rest of the World (ROW). In Part I of the sequence (Hickman, Kuroda and Lau, 1977a) we presented and documented annual data on bilateral...
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