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The World Trade Organization has been until recently an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually … mechanism that has driven the World Trade Organization process to previous successes. The second is new restraints on …
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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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as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …
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Trade (GATT) and subsequent World Trade Organization (WTO) on choice of policy instruments, as well as how multilateral …
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. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …
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successful among them, with an estimated positive impact on its members' imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade … diversion), but its impact on their exports to the rest of the world is rather limited. During its first 10 years of existence …, ECOWAS appears to have had a positive impact on its members' imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade diversion …
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Many trade negotiations involve large cuts in high tariffs, with flexibilities allowing much smaller cuts for an agreed number of politically-sensitive products. The effects of these flexibilities on market access opportunities are difficult to predict, creating particular problems for...
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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 …
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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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The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of … preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried … growing economics literature on international trade agreements and argues on this basis that the WTO is not pass?. Rather, and …
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