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Multilateral solutions to the erosion of non-reciprocal preferences in NAMA
Low, Patrick; Piermartini, Roberta; Richtering, Jurgen - 2005
This paper analyzes the risks of preference erosion arising from MFN trade liberalization in manufactured products. It focuses on developing countries that receive non-reciprocal preferences in the markets of United States, EU, Japan, Canada and Australia. The paper estimates preference margins...
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Non-reciprocal preference erosion arising from MFN liberalitzation in agriculture: What are the risks?
Low, Patrick; Piermartini, Roberta; Richtering, Jurgen - 2006
This paper estimates the risk of preference erosion for non-reciprocal preference recipients in the agricultural sector as a consequence of MFN tariff cuts. It is based on a simulation of a single tariff-cutting scenario. The measure of preference erosion risk is the difference in preference...
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Preferential tariff formation: The case of the United States
Joshi, Vivek - 2010
This paper addresses the impact of Multilateral Trade Liberalisation (MTL) on the preferential tariffs granted by the United States. For a given MFN tariff, we model the preferential tariff with a simple linear functional form. We take MTL of the US as known to the world by the end of Uruguay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316817
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Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John H. - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276243
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Trading with Asia's Giants
Bosworth, Barry; Collins, Susan M.; Flaaen, Aaron - 2008
competitiveness in the region. The purpose of this paper is to examine the patterns of U.S. trade relationships with China and India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807626
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A fair share: Burden-sharing preferences in the United States and China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - 2010
in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked respondents about their preferences for … preferences was much stronger in China, suggesting that how mitigation costs are shared across countries is more important there. …
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The Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law: National Treatment
Grossman, Gene M.; Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2012
The purpose of the study is to propose interpretations of the National Treatment (NT) provision included in Art. III GATT, unbound by case-law interpretations of this provision. To make such proposals, we need to understand the role of the provision in the agreement. To this end, we first...
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Bilateralism in services trade: is there fire behind the (BIT-)smoke?
Adlung, Rudolf; Molinuevo, Martin - 2008
Far less attention is given to the even more rapid proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and their overlap with obligations assumed by WTO Members under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). About 60 per cent of world foreign investment stocks are in services and,...
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Countries in transition and GATT/WTO: Issues, expectations, prospects
Schultz, Siegfried - 1995
Applicant countries in transition wishing to revitalise or establish new ties with the GATT/WTO system will be able to achieve this neither in a rash nor uniform fashion. Undisputedly the necessary economic reforms in Central and Eastern Europe will take time. With respect to foreign trade, the...
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The use of 'most-favored-nation' clauses in settlement of litigation
Spier, Kathryn E. - 2001
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