A Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) has been proposed in the mid-1990s to revitalize the economic and political … trade area for its members with respect to trade in goods and services and investment flows. It then looks at potential …

new dataset on imports by preferential regime that has so far not been publicly available. For the EU and US, we make use …, even for very small preferential margins and/or very small trade flows, which contradicts numerous estimates that average … a percentage share of the trade value, our findings indicate that utilization costs involve an important fixed cost …

The paper discusses the pros and cons of a Transatlantic free trade area (TAFTA) against the concept of an informal … trade-facilitating marketplace between Europe and the US. It finds considerably more cons expecially since TAFTA would be … separate insiders from outsiders. It is also shown that in foreign direct investment (FDI) and FDI-related service trade TAFTA …

free trade oriented package due to her integration into the European community. The importance of the European economic and … investigates how this finding fits into the literature of the political economy of trade policy and how it can be incorporated into …

inability of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Development Round to lower global trade barriers significantly. In joining … failure of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) arrangement to foster trade liberalization in the region; and (iv) the … APEC, and its trade-focused Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement economic engagement with East Asia, and the EAS for …

zeigt, dass ein tiefgreifendes Handelsabkommen(Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP), welches auch nicht …

transatlantic economic integration. It examines the trade benefits from a removal of tariffs and surveys different designs of a … transatlantic trade deal. …

future. Analysis in the paper shows that if TPP like provisions are incorporated in multilateral trade agreements, for India … multilateral trade agreements as the current multilateral trade compact, as embodied in the WTO Agreement, does not permit linkage … between trade in goods and services with labour and environment and there is no advantage to be gained by developing countries …