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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...
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Regional Trade Agreements
Freund, Caroline L. - 2017
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on regionalism. The formation of regional trade agreements has been, by far, the most popular form of reciprocal trade liberalization in the past 15 years. The discriminatory character of these agreements has raised three main concerns:...
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CGE Modeling of Market Access in Services
Christen, Elisabeth M. - 2017
This paper examines how the applied multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) literature has moved into quantication of the impacts of greater market access for services. This includes discussion of multi-sector linkages to the service sector, as well both measuring barriers to trade and...
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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...
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Regionalism in Services : A Study of ASEAN
Gootiiz, Batshur - 2017
integrate faster internally than vis-?-vis the rest of the world: policies applied to trade with other ASEAN countries were … virtually the same as those applied to trade with rest of the world. Moreover, the recent commitments scheduled under AFAS did …. These findings suggest that regional negotiations add the most value when they are focused on areas that are not being …
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Regional Trade Policy Options for Tanzania : The Importance of Services Commitments
Jensen, Jesper - 2017
Despite the growing importance of commitments to foreign investors in services in regional trade agreements, there are no applied general equilibrium models in the literature that assess these regional impacts. This paper develops a 52 sector applied general equilibrium model of Tanzania with...
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Trade Creation and Trade Diversion in Deep Agreements
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2018
Preferential trade agreements have boomed in recent years and extended their reach well beyond tariff reduction, to cover policy areas such as investment, competition, and intellectual property rights. This paper uses new information on the content of preferential trade agreements to examine the...
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Services in the Trans-Pacific Partnership : What Would Be Lost?
Gootiiz, Batshur - 2018
current decisions and shape future negotiations. The TPPs services component has been hailed as one of the agreement's major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934715
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Rules of Origin and the Web of East Asian Free Trade Agreements
Manchin, Miriam - 2016
The authors provide an overview of the preferential rules of origin in East Asia, highlighting the aspects that might possibly generate some trade-chilling effects. They review characteristics of existing preferential trade agreements with special emphasis on lessons from the European...
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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 … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …
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