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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets
Espitia, Alvaro - 2020
This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … domestic food markets could magnify the initial shock. The analysis shows that, in the quarter following the outbreak of the … pandemic, the global export supply of food could decrease between 6 and 20 percent and global prices increase between 2 and 6 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833536
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Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents, and Surfactant Producers
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2006
This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779238
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Regional Integration and Technology Diffusion : The Case of the North America Free Trade Agreement
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
The literature on regional integration agreements (RIAs) is vast and deals with political, economic, and political economy issues. The literature on the economics of RIAs deals mostly with static effects, and concludes that these effects are, in general, ambiguous. So far there has been no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971184
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Economic Performance Under NAFTA : A Firm-Level Analysis of the Trade-Productivity Linkages
De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2017
Did the North American Free Trade Agreement make Mexican firms more productive? If so, through which channels? This paper addresses these questions by deploying an innovative microeconometric approach that disentangles the various channels through which integration with the global markets (via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976004
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Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents, and Surfactant Producers
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2016
This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747985
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Product Standards and Firms? Export Decisions
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
covers all exporting firms in 42 developing countries. The second covers pesticide standards for 243 agricultural and food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937194
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Russian Federation, the World Trade Organization, and the Eurasian Customs Union : Tariff and Non-Tariff Policy Challenges
Ferrantino, Michael J. - 2017
This paper assesses issues relating to tariffs and nontariff measures (NTMs) in relation to Russia's World Trade Organization (WTO) and Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) commitments. The analysis finds that full implementation of Russia's WTO tariff schedule through 2020, would raise goods imports by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968701
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Non-Tariff Measures and the World Trading System
Ederington, Josh - 2017
With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in reducing conventional tariff barriers, much of the recent focus of regional and multilateral trade agreements has switched to non-tariff measures, both border and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969264
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Reducing Trade Costs in East Africa : Deep Regional Integration and Multilateral Action
Balistreri, Edward J. - 2017
There is substantial evidence that with the progressive global decline in tariffs over several decades, trade costs are a more significant barrier to trade than tariffs, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into three categories: costs that can be lowered by trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972682
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North-South Standards Harmonization and International Trade
Disdier, Anne-Célia - 2017
Recent years have seen a surge in economic integration agreements (EIAs) and the development of non-tariff measures (NTMs). As a consequence, a growing number of EIAs include provisions on NTMs. However, little attention has been given in the literature to the effects of NTM liberalization in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973743