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Ciuriak, Dan - 2019

China’s WTO accession was a landmark event bringing one of the world’s major trading economies fully into the …’s success in trade and investment outside the framework of the WTO, China’s motives for accession are explored. The economic … impacts of WTO are reviewed, including the impacts on China’s global competitors in areas such as textiles. Areas where …

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China's Crawling Peg : Does it Signify a Broader Shift in International Economic Strategy?

Ciuriak, Dan - 2012

The accelerated expansion of China’s trade and current account surpluses since 2004, and the associated expansion of China’s foreign exchange reserves in the context of very rapid investment-driven domestic economic growth and adverse movements in China’s terms of trade have led China’s...

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The Role of Embassies and Consulates in Promoting Trade : Does Economic Freedom in the Host Economy Matter?

Ciuriak, Dan; Kinjo, Shinji - 2010

Are exports systematically associated with diplomatic representation abroad? Given the expenses of maintaining posts abroad, this question is obviously of deep interest to governments seeking to promote their country's export performance while coping with budgetary pressures. In a recent...

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Quantifying the Impacts of the US Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariffs

Ciuriak, Dan; Xiao, Jingliang - 2018

The Trump Administration is proceeding with unilateral measures to address what it has characterized as “unfair” trade, risking retaliation, but banking on a threat of massive escalation to extract a favorable outcome for itself. Notwithstanding widespread speculation that the threats to...

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Renegotiating NAFTA : Implications for Canada of Possible Trump Administration Policies

Ciuriak, Dan - 2017

Building on, and indeed ratcheting up, the rhetoric of the US election campaign, the new Trump Administration has signalled disruptive change to US trade relations. The not-yet-in-force Trans-Pacific Partnership was torn up on day one of the new presidential term, the future of NAFTA was thrown...

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NAFTA 2.0 : Back-of-the-Envelope Assessment of the Costs and Benefits for Canada

Ciuriak, Dan - 2018

As the NAFTA Renegotiation potentially heads into the end-game, this note provides a brief back-of-the-envelope estimate of what is at stake to contribute to the understanding of the decision rule that is likely guiding Canada’s negotiators. It concludes that, on the basis of what is known...

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Trade Wars #2018 : The Likely Trade and Economic Impact So Far

Ciuriak, Dan; Ouyang, Olivia; Xiao, Jingliang - 2019

This study quantifies the trade and economic impacts of the tariff measures taken to date in the main salvoes of the trade wars unleashed by unilateral US tariff measures imposed on steel and aluminum pursuant to the Department of Commerce Section 232 National Security Investigation, on imports...

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Advantages and Disadvantages for Canada of Multilateral, Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements

Ciuriak, Dan - 2016

-Pacific Partnership agreements, having seen the multilateral option effectively removed at the WTO Ministerial at Nairobi in 2015, and …

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Quantifying the Impact of FTAs on Canada's Financial Services Sector

Ciuriak, Dan - 2016

bindings, a measure of the extent to which existing market access restrictions could be increased without violating WTO …

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Opening Up New Trade Routes for Financial Services : Canada's Priorities

Schwanen, Daniel - 2016

The importance of services to Canada's economy is often lost in the discussion of how Canada can take advantage of trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In this Commentary, we look to close this gap with respect to the vital financial services sector. In order to determine the...

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