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The aim of this paper is to offer a comprehensive overview of non-reciprocal trade preferences. Legal and economic aspects are discussed, and in particular, focus is put on how the specific design of preference programs influence whether or not preferences will have their intended effects. The...
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preference programs, such as the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP), are associated with increasing ranges of export …
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The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports, (ii) increase with the inverse of the sum of the import demand and export supply elasticities, and (iii) decrease with the variance of imports. We find US import policy during...
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) enhance the export competitiveness of this sector (b) be WTO compliant and (c) ensure greater market access for Indian apparel …
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For many years now, lack of progress in multilateral trade negotiations has been a major cause of concern among WTO … account of the use of OPAs in the GATT 1947 era and of its revival under the WTO Agreement. It describes the various areas of … the WTO Agreement in which OPAs can be successfully employed to make progress in liberalisation as well as in rule …
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in international forums such as the WTO and G20 and trade rules on PSEs are being negotiated in several bilateral …
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India's graduation from the ranks of low-income countries, making it ineligible under the WTO rules to grant export … export competitiveness but do not constitute subsidies at all under the WTO Agreement. First, it should introduce a … dispute raised by the US in the WTO has gone against India but India has lodged an appeal. Since the Appellate Body has become …
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In the OECD countries, the decline of manufacturing and its employment implications have long been matters of concern. Recently, policymakers in several countries have set out to achieve reindustrialization. The servicification of firms is related to these concerns and aspirations. However,...
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countries of the WTO will have access to a Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM). This means that developing countries will now have …
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complexities of services negotiations in the WTO and in FTAs. The WTO negotiations focus on market access but FTAs tend to go … both in the WTO and through bilateral/regional agreements. In this context, this paper examines how new service sectors … like express delivery services (EDS) are addressed in WTO/FTAs and its implications for India. Express delivery services …
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