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Jordan Imports and Tariff Regimes: A Revisit

Malkawi, Bashar H. - In: Global Trade and Customs Journal 14 (2019) 6, pp. 308-318

Jordan made substantial market access commitments as part of its WTO membership negotiations. Jordan has low average tariffs with single or two digits rate, ad valorem-only duties with some exceptions where specific duties apply. Customs standards in Jordan were streamlined in accordance with...

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Trade Defense Actions in Arab Countries Free Trade Agreements with the U.S: The Case of Safeguards

Malkawi, Bashar H. - In: Estey Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 17 (2016) 1, pp. 16-40

necessary to facilitate the transition to a liberalized trade regime and accommodate the needs of domestic industries in the …

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The Design and Operation of Rules of Origin in Greater Arab Free Trade Area: Challenges of Implementation and Reform

Malkawi, Bashar H.; El-Shafie, Mohammad I. - In: Journal of World Trade 53 (2019) 2, pp. 243-272

Rules of origin (ROO) are pivotal element of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA). ROO are basically established to … of ROO for enhancing trade flows and facilitating the success of regional integration, this article sheds light on the …

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The Contents and Features of Dispute Settlement under US-Jordan FTA: An Appraisal

Malkawi, Bashar H. - In: Manchester Journal of International Economic Law 15 (2018) 2, pp. 167-189

The following discussion analyzes the dispute settlement mechanism provided for by the US-JO FTA. The article begins in section II with a brief introduction on the functioning of FTAs. Section III highlights the importance of including dispute resolution provisions in FTAs. Section IV analyzes...

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Multilateral environmental agreements in the WTO: Silence speaks volumes

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2013

This study contributes to the debate concerning the appropriate role of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) in in WTO dispute settlement. Its distinguishing feature is that it seeks to address this relationship in light of the reason why the parties have chosen to separate their...

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A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2006

This paper surveys the law and economics literature on WTO dispute settlement. As a background, we first briefly lay out main features of the legal framework, and discuss possible roles of a dispute settlement mechanism. We then discuss the two main themes in the empirical literature on dispute...

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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2006: Some Descriptive Statistics

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2.0) that the authors have compiled for the World Bank. The data set contains approximately 28 000 observations on the workings of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351...

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Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts

Horn, Henrik; Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Rikard W. - 2006

We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may … be incomplete. Inspite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on the structure of the optimal trade … explicitly into account can help explain a number of key features of real trade agreements. …

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The Permissible Reach of National Environmental Policies

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2008

Trading nations exchange tariff concessions in the context of trade liberalizing rounds. Tariffs, nonetheless, are not … international community. In this paper, we focus on the interaction between trade and environment. The purpose of this study is to …

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National Treatment in the GATT

Horn, Henrik - 2006

The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defense in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against …. Furthermore, it requires a high degree of economic sophistication on behalf of trade negotiators in order for this beneficial …

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