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Bilateral and regional free trade agreements increasingly substitute for the World Trade Organization in trade negotiations. Accordingly, civil society organisations opposed to trade liberalisation target this new generation of trade agreements as well. This paper examines the case of activists...
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surveys, on complaints by trading partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) or notifications by companies or countries … sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) against which trading partners issued complaints at the WTO. …
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exploring the possibility of open, transparent and non-discriminatory e-commerce trade rules in the WTO. India has not joined … this group as commitments in the WTO may reduce the ability of the government to promote and support domestic industry … understand the growth of the e-commerce sector globally and in India, the developments in the WTO, and India's position. Based on …
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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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This paper estimates the trade, revenue, and welfare effects of the proposed Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-Canada free trade agreement (FTA) on CARICOM countries using a partial equilibrium model. The welfare analysis also takes into account the Economic Partnership Agreement, which was signed...
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This paper explores the relationship between preferential and multilateral trade liberalization at the sectoral level using a unique dataset that includes data on most favored nation (MFN) and bilateral preferential tariffs at the 4-digit ISIC level for 11 Latin American countries over the...
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Political debates and economic analyses often focus on single free trade agreements and their potential economic effects on participating trading partners. This study contributes to the literature by shedding light on the significance of trade agreements in the context of countries' positions in...
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The paper examines the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs) as a network formation game. We consider a general n-country model in which countries trade differentiated industrial commodities as well as a numeraire good. Countries may be different in the size of the industrial good industry...
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The preferential trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Iran on mutual trade entered into force in October 2019. In this report we estimate its expected impact at aggregate and sectoral levels using the gravity model of trade based on the global sample of bilateral trade...
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This paper analyses the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between EU and India focusing on services trade. Based on the text published by the European Union, I use the OECD STRI simulator to calculate the preference margin implied by the agreement and next predict the impact on services trade...
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