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Antidumping regional regimes and the multilateral trading system: Do regional antidumping regimes make a difference?
Rey, Jean-Daniel - 2012
application of intra-regional, and sometimes extra-regional, antidumping actions. This study focuses on intra-regional antidumping … regimes and has been built around the analysis of antidumping provisions in 192 RTAs. This Working Paper first recalls the … RTAs, the Paper identifies two Categories of regional antidumping regimes, and assesses their relationships with the …
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Globalization and trade flows: What you see is not what you get!
Maurer, Andreas; Degain, Christophe - 2010
The trade collapse that followed the recent financial crisis has led to a renewed interest on the measurement issues affecting international merchandise trade statistics in the new globalized economy. The international fragmentation of industrial production blurs the concept of country of origin...
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Reassessing effective protection rates in a trade in tasks perspective: Evolution of trade policy in factory Asia
Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - 2012
With international trade moving from trade in (final) goods to trade in tasks, effective protection rates (EPRs) are back to the stage, allowing us to measure the overall protection of a product or sector by including the production structure and the origin of the inputs -domestic or imported....
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The impact of mode 4 on trade in goods and services
Jansen, Marion; Piermartini, Roberta - 2004
This paper estimates the impact of liberalization of temporary movements of individual service suppliers on trade in goods and services. In particular, the paper looks at the impact of the so-called forth mode to provide a service on trade in services under the other three modes: cross-border...
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The impact of transparency on foreign direct investment
Drabek, Zdenek; Payne, Warren - 2001
Non-transparency is a term given in this paper to a set of government policies that increase the risk and uncertainty faced by economic actors foreign investors. This increase in risk and uncertainty stems from the presence of bribery and corruption, unstable economic policies, weak and poorly...
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Accumulating trade costs and competitiveness in global value chains
Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert; Roberts, Michael; … - 2017
Trade costs such as applied tariffs, transportation and insurance costs are amplified as they pass through the multiple production steps associated with modern supply chains. This so-called "cascade effect" arises since trade costs accumulate as intermediate goods are imported and then...
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Competition policy, trade and the global economy: Existing WTO elements, commitments in regional trade agreements, current challenges and issues for reflection
Anderson, Robert D.; Kovacic, William E.; Müller, Anna … - 2018
Competition policy, today, is an essential element of the legal and institutional framework for the global economy. Whereas decades ago, anti-competitive practices tended to be viewed mainly as a domestic phenomenon, most facets of competition law enforcement now have an important international...
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Clustering value-added trade: Structural and policy dimensions
Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - 2014
A second approach focuses on the relationships existing between the variables themselves, using multi-criteria and graph analysis. Natural resources endowments, on the one hand, and services orientation, on the other one, are among the most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added...
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What global fragmentation means for the WTO: Article XXIV, behind-the-border concessions, and a new case for WTO limits on investment incentives
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2014
The rapid rise in global fragmentation - foreign investment, global supply chains, and 'production sharing' - is fundamentally reshaping the multilateral trading system. This paper uses a simple economic modeling framework to understand how the global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape the...
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Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates
Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - 2014
Building on the results of the OECD-WTO Trade in Value-Added TiVA database, the paper analyses the evolution of effective protection in about 50 developed and developing countries from 1995 to 2008. The paper reviews also the role of preferential agreements on effective protection as well as the...
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