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Trade policy substitution : theory and evidence from Specific Trade Concerns

Beverelli, Cosimo; Boffa, Mauro; Keck, Alexander - 2014 - Manuscript date: 29 October 2014

measures', we find evidence of a substitution of non-tariff measures for tariffs both in the sample of TBT and in the sample of …

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Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates

Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - 2014 - Manuscript date: 31 October 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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Trade and welfare effects of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement

Beverelli, Cosimo; Gourevich, Isabella; Heiland, Inga; … - 2023 - Manuscript date: 28 February 2023

The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) has been predicted to bring about an expansion in trade flows and real income gains. To date, there is still very limited empirical evidence on the actual post-implementation impact of the TFA. This paper provides an assessment, combining econometric...

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The Tisa initiative : an overview of market access issues

Marchetti, Juan A.; Roy, Martin - 2013 - Manuscript date: November 27, 2013

The plurilateral negotiations on a Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) have attracted much attention in trade policy circles. Policy and economic implications are intensely debated given the number and economic importance of participants. This paper aims to provide insights into the market access...

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The long and winding road : how WTO members finally reached a trade facilitation agreement

Neufeld, Nora - 2014 - Manuscript date: April 7, 2014

The paper chronicles the negotiating history of the recently concluded Trade Facilitation Accord. Analysing the various stages of the decade-long effort to get the Agreement off the ground, it examines what was at stake in the negotiations, how they evolved and why they finally succeeded -...

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A new look at the extensive trade margin effects of trade facilitation

Beverelli, Cosimo; Neumüller, Simon; Teh, Robert - 2014 - Manuscript date: 13 October 2014

We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on the extensive margins of trade. Using OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators – which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bali WTO Ministerial Conference of December 2013 – we show that trade facilitation in a given...

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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs

Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...

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Developing economies' participation in environmental services negotiations : what are the challenges and what should be done?

Tuljapurkar, Sanvid; Zhang, Ruosi - 2023 - Manuscript date: 10 August 2023

The urgency to tackle climate change has placed sustainable development at the centre of recent trade related narratives. With trade being considered as means to achieve sustainable development goals, one issue to be addressed is how to adjust trade negotiations which used to be the main...

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Evolution of Asia's outward-looking economic policies : some lessons from trade policy reviews

Daly, Michael John - 2011 - Manuscript date: 17 August 2011

This Working Paper contains some observations concerning the evolution of trade and trade-related policies in the Asia-Pacific region since the establishment in 1989 of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM), whose goal is to improve the transparency of these policies. It also draws some...

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The value of bindings

Bacchetta, Marc; Piermartini, Roberta - 2011 - Manuscript date: 26 September 2011

that countries do vary tariffs. Most importantly, we find evidence that applied tariffs of tariff lines that are bound are … the level of the water (i.e. the gap between bound and applied tariff). This finding is robust to controlling for … political economy determinants of tariffs and to factors related to the economic cycle. -- water in the tariff ; weak …

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