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The World Customs Organization - A History of 65 Years of Growth and its Legal Milestones
Weerth, Carsten - In: Customs Scientific Journal CUSTOMS 7 (2017) 2, pp. 17-24
emerging states are also quickly receiving membership status (South Sudan, Palestine, Kosovo, all of which are not WTO Members …). In contrast to the WTO membership (which has risen to 164 contracting parties) some states and economic territories which … have previously had an independent status may have a different WCO membership status (Liechtenstein: WTO + / WCO -, Taiwan …
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The most favoured nation and non-discrimination provisions in international trade law and the OECD codes of liberalisation
Odio, Andrea Marín - 2020
favoured nation (MFN) clause - as developed under the GATT and GATS - and the non-discrimination clause among countries …
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Normative Influences of "Special and Differential Treatment" on North-South RTAs
Yanai, Akiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009
incorporated into the GATT/WTO legal framework so as to permit the derogation of most-favored-nation (MFN) obligations. … countries, which are known as North-South RTAs. Under the current legal system of the WTO, North-South RTAs are governed by … Article XXIV of the GATT or Article V of the GATS, which means such RTAs must be reciprocal and must cover substantially all …
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Limited Incremental Linking and Unlinked Trade Agreements
Chisik, Richard - Department of Economics, Ryerson University - 2010
The broadened scope of the GATT/WTO through successive rounds of trade liberalization is explained as a result of trade …
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Trade Disputes, Quality Choice, and Economic Integration
Chisik, Richard - Department of Economics, Ryerson University - 2010
features of the WTO that are generally lacking in preferential trade agreements such as improved transparency, dispute … preferential trading areas as opposed to the WTO. …
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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 agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the...
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Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts
Horn, Henrik; Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Rikard W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
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 agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the...
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Servification of Firms and Trade Policy Implications
Lodefalk, Magnus - 2016
In the OECD countries, the decline of manufacturing and its employment implications have long been matters of concern. Recently, policymakers in several countries have set out to achieve reindustrialization. The servicification of firms is related to these concerns and aspirations. However,...
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Conflict of law rules and international trade : a transaction costs approach
Kirstein, Roland; Schmidtchen, Dieter; Neunzig, Alexander R. - 2004
Drawing on Transaction Costs Economics, this paper develops a new approach to conflict of law rules. It outlines a concept of constitutional uncertainty in international trade and presents a model of international transactions in the presence of a diversity of legal orders. We develop a general...
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Territoriality of Law and the International Trade Game: Towards a New Institutional Economics of International Transactions
Schmidt-Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Schmidtchen, Dieter - 2006
The conventional theory of international trade is dominated by a model presupposing a legal order that is perfect in its specifications and controllability, binding for all economic agents, no matter their nationality. World order appears to be cosmopolitan in the sense of Kant. An international...
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