The post-World War II world trading system is now more than fifty years old, and not surprisingly, it has evolved through a number of different stages of development and survived a series of perils. Recently, however, the perils seem even greater than before. The failure of the Seattle...

The research in this paper has two objectives. Beginning with an examination of the historical development of how financial reporting standards are set in the United States and around the world, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board will be...

Several interesting developments indicate that world attention is increasingly focusing on a "novel" category of trade barriers: non-tariff and non-border barriers. Following the Uruguay Round (the eighth round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, "GATT"), scholars...

This paper analyses the current global economic trends and explores the new realities for international trade in the current set of economic parameters. While there are encouraging positive economic trends and further liberalisation of international trade is in order, the overall trade system...

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The Brazilian pork exports have been affected by several shocks on the2000s. This paper aimed to analyze these shocks. The focus of this papers are the maininternational shocks on the last years: the international economics crisis and de influenzaA (H1N1). Analyses were made over the main...

The acceptance of the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements will impact the U.S. peanut industry. This paper examines trade distorting policies and evaluates the effects of trade liberalization on peanut producers, shellers, manufactures, and U.S. consumers of peanut products. Decreasing marketing...

Octopus exports are an important source of foreign exchange for Mauritania. The export market has historically been dominated by coordinated Japanese buyers, a situation that led Mauritania to create the Societe Mauritanienne de Commercialisation de Poisson (SMCP) to negotiate with buyers and...

Este trabalho analisa a inserção brasileira no mercado internacional de pedraspreciosas, um setor de grande importância para o País, embora ainda pouco estudado. Ametodologia escolhida consiste no cálculo de alguns indicadores de competitividadeinternacional, capazes de evidenciar os...

Este estudo teve por objetivo analisar a competitividade das exportações domelão do Rio Grande do Norte no cenário nacional, bem como sua participação eimportância para o comércio exterior brasileiro, no período de 1996 a 2005. Utilizou-seos indicadores de desempenho da competitividade...