Co-operation and Development/World Trade Organization's Trade in Value Added Database to assess Brazil's current … for Brazil to increase global value chain-related trade. One avenue to raise participation in global value chains is … through (deeper) preferential trade agreements, and to this end the paper characterizes the level of integration of Brazil …

have fewer commitments in preferential trade agreements, with larger gaps in areas such as labor and the environment; and …This paper presents new data on the content of preferential trade agreements. The data contain detailed information on … the 18 policy areas most frequently covered in preferential trade agreements, focusing on the stated objectives …

environment. Indeed, firms exporting regulation-intensive products benefit disproportionately more from deep trade agreements in …Do regional trade agreements negatively impact non-members? This paper revisits this long-standing trade policy … question using firm-level data and detailed information on the content of trade agreements. Differently from the conventional …

gravity framework, it examines the impact of services trade agreements on gross trade and global value chain trade (backward … and forward participation) in goods. It finds that services trade agreements promote both, but especially global value … chain trade, although the effects are heterogeneous: the impact is greater for developing nation exporters. Moreover …

This paper assesses and compares the economic impacts of four actual and potential free trade agreements in the Asia …, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, and the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific. Free trade areas with a … trade flows. U.S. withdrawal from the original Trans-Pacific Partnership reduced estimated gross domestic product gains for …

, but the impact varies by income group. Provisions outside the current mandate of the World Trade Organization (investment … under the current World Trade Organization mandate (tariff reduction and customs facilitation) drive the effect of trade …Preferential trade agreements have become deeper over time, often encompassing policy areas that go beyond traditional …