, may in the future be relevant to other areas of global trade liberalization. In addition to the Agreement's plurilateral … widely used in other WTO Agreements. Apart from the above, the GPA revision is important for the merging of trade and good …

This paper argues that different types of trade liberalization { multilateral versus regional { may lead to different R …&D and productivity levels of firms. Trade agreements between countries are modelled with a network: nodes represent … countries and a link between the nodes indicates the existence of a trade agreement. In this framework, the multilateral trade …

Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to … most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains … explaining why countries choose to settle and enforce their trade disputes with the help of an impartial third party, a “trade …

at which countries have committed at the WTO is sufficient to diminish trade policy volatility is an empirical question … commitments ; tariff volatility ; trade policy uncertainty ; World Trade Organization ; trade agreements …

As of November 2010, more than 300 regional trade agreements (RTAs) were in force. Approximately two-thirds of them had … the regional level, of a current practice of not using antidumping as a trade policy tool is restricted to a limited … diversion" materializes. -- Regional Trade Agreements ; antidumping ; trade remedies …

regional trade agreements (RTAs) that had been notified to the WTO by November 2010. IP provisions in RTAs have been the … standards. -- Regional Trade Agreements ; Intellectual Property Rights ; WTO ; TRIPS …

This paper assembles detailed information on the market access provisions in trade in goods contained in 192 active … regional trade agreements (RTAs) notified to the WTO as of November 2010. Although market access provisions in trade in goods … trade data by WTO Members engaged in RTAs. This information has been supplemented by other public sources of data, where …

The study tries first to assess the extent of similarities and divergences among services rules in regional trade … agreements else than pre-adhesion ones). -- Regional Trade Agreements ; services ; GATS ; WTO …

This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a … curtailed by a trade agreement that binds tariffs only. We refer to this as the policy substitution problem. When factors of … credibly commit vis-à-vis the domestic lobby unless the trade agreement also regulates production subsidies, thus addressing …