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Trading firms and trading costs in services : firm-level analysis

Rouzet, Dorothée; Benz, Sebastian; Spinelli, Francesca - 2017

This report presents evidence on how services trade restrictions influence the decisions and performance of firms engaged in international markets, drawing on micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It first describes the...

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Trade Remedy Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements

World Trade Organization - 2007

This paper maps and examines the provisions on anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards in seventy … members. In the case of anti-dumping for example, some provisions increase de minimis volume and dumping margin requirements … and shorten the duration for applying anti-dumping duties relative to the WTO Anti-dumping Agreement. In similar fashion …

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A commitment theory of subsidy agreements

Brou, Daniel; Ruta, Michele - 2012 - Manuscript date: September 2012

This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its disposal, taxation can be distortionary and the...

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Turning Hills into Mountains? : Current Commitments under the GATS and Prospects for Change

World Trade Organization - 2005

Over the past months, it has become increasingly clear that the services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda will not produce significant improvements on current commitments unless major new impetus is provided. In an introductory section, this paper discusses various impediments,...

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Africa’s Integration in the WTO Multilateral Trading System : Academic Support and the Role of WTO Chairs

World Trade Organization - 2021

The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This...

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Developing countries in the WTO services negotiations

Marchetti, Juan A. - 2004 - Manuscript date: September 2004

The aim of this paper is to analyse developing countries' participation so far in the current round of services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. The paper analyses developing countries' negotiating positions, as evidenced by their multilateral negotiating proposals; their initial...

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Quantitative evidence on transparency in regional trade agreements

Lejárraga, Iza; Shepherd, Ben - 2013

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical evidence of the political economy determinants of international...

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Multilateralising regionalism : strengthening transparency disciplines in trade

Lejárraga, Iza - 2013

Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market opacity. This study distils the most progressive practices for promoting regulatory transparency in over one hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large...

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Services liberalization in the new generation of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) : how much further than the GATS?

Roy, Martin (contributor); Marchetti, Juan (contributor); … - 2006

This paper attempts to fill a gap in the trade literature by providing a comprehensive overview of services liberalization commitments in the new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as compared to prevailing GATS commitments and Doha Round offers. By developing a new database, the...

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The WTO Global Trade Costs Index and Its Determinants

World Trade Organization - 2021

This study provides a decomposition of the WTO Global Trade Costs Index into five policy-relevant components: transport and travel costs; information and transaction costs; ICT connectedness; trade policy and regulatory differences; and governance quality. The WTO Global Trade Costs Index is...

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