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Trade Impacts of Selected Regional Trade Agreements in Agriculture
Korinek, Jane; Melatos, Mark - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2009
cases, lack of transport and communications infrastructure, in addition to supply constraints, lessens the effect of the RTA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962829
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Multilateralising Regionalism: Disciplines on Export Restrictions in Regional Trade Agreements
Korinek, Jane; Bartos, Jessica - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2012
The proliferation of preferential trade agreements has posed challenges for the multilateral trading system. But regional trade agreements (RTAs) also allow countries to develop and strengthen trade disciplines beyond what is possible at the multilateral level. In some instances, RTAs explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277109
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Multilateralising Regionalism: How Preferential Are Services Commitments in Regional Trade Agreements?
Miroudot, Sébastien; Sauvage, Jehan; Sudreau, Marie - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2010
This report examines services schedules of commitments in 56 regional trade agreements (RTAs) where an OECD country is a party. The preferential content of RTAs is assessed through an analysis of market access and national treatment commitments at the level of the 155 sub-sectors of the General...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752413
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The Interaction between Investment and Services Chapters in Selected Regional trade Agreements
Houde, Marie-France; Kolse-Patil, Akshay; Miroudot, … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2007
This report analyses the interactions between the investment and services chapters of 20 regional trade agreements. It classifies agreements into two broad categories of NAFTA-inspired and GATS-inspired agreements and identifies four major types of interaction between the investment and trade in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962902
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Multilateralising Regionalism: Strengthening Transparency Disciplines in Trade
Lejárraga, Iza - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013
in an RTA, they are de facto being extended on a most-favoured nation (MFN) basis. Moreover, there is a considerable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277107
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Deep Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements: How Multilateral-friendly?: An Overview of OECD Findings
Lejárraga, Iza - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014
bottom-up (RTA-driven) or top-down (WTO-driven) approach. It considers the degree of convergence, homogeneity, discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277117
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Quantitative Evidence on Transparency in Regional Trade Agreements
Lejárraga, Iza; Shepherd, Ben - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013
transparency commitment negotiated in an RTA is associated with an increase in bilateral trade flows of more than one percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277119
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Multilateralising Regionalism on Government Procurement
Ueno, Asako - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013
. In particular, RTA services coverage commitments involving non-GPA parties are more extensive than those of GPA parties …. RTA market access commitments signed by the same party are fairly homogeneous while some heterogeneity is observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277131
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Multilateralising Regionalism: The Case of E-Commerce
Herman, Lior - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2010
approaches for multilateralisation of RTA provisions. First, it suggests bottom-up multilateralisation extending RTAs e …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457938
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The Political Economy of Services in Regional Trade Agreements
VanGrasstek, Craig - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2011
Do the services commitments that countries have made in their post-Uruguay Round regional trade agreements (RTAs) indicate the types of concessions that they would be willing to multilateralise in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)? While there are important legal and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003227