) in NT disputes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of this burden for trade liberalization and for the … environment, in a situation where imports may cause environmental damage. The paper finds that there may be a tension between NT … and environmental concerns, but that this is not likely to arise in the context of severe threats to the environment. In …

negotiations for the proposed RP-US Free Trade Agreement commence, it is recommended that the Philippine Government incorporate …

regulate investment protection of foreign-owned property. It gives an overview of the international law of expropriations of … investment protection rules and dispute settlement provisions may be an indicator on what TTIP really is: an instrument for the … TTIP agreement and that the settlement of investment disputes between investors and states will not be put into the hands …

tariff cuts negotiated under the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) affected …What causes U.S. trade with Mexico and Canada to continue growing faster, for up to a decade, relative to countries … with which the U.S. does not have a free trade agreement? Baier and Bergstrand (2007) suggest that tariff phase-out and …

Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). It begins with a review of the historical evolution of ASEAN FTAs, which … captures the achievements of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) and the efforts meant to lead to a further step of deeper …

and effectiveness of trade adjustment assistance. Most economists agree that protecting workers from the negative … consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement is appropriate, since we believe that a measure is unambiguously good only … when some benefit, but no one is hurt. Even if trade liberalization is only a minor source of job loss, when many workers …

protected investment. It offers two approaches for controlling investment arbitration related to intellectual property rights … requirements of investment arbitration. Rather, assessing IP as an investment must be done by referring to national laws. This is … a dispute arises from an investment (IP as an investment), it does not necessarily fall under the jurisdictional …

We study the effects of economic globalization (liberalization of international trade and investment flows) on the … (PHH). Both FET and PHH imply that inward investment burdens the environment while outward investment is favorable for … between trade in goods and inward FDI on the environment. In particular, the interaction is positive under the former and …

consequences of anticipated domestic and global trade policy and world price changes. Similar exogenous or policy shocks are seen … to have contrasting effects, depending on initial economic structure, trade orientation and policy regime. Further, when …

The literature on trade in renewable resources implicitly assumes that the traded resources are perfect substitutes. We … model trade in renewable resources as stipulated not only by autarky price differences, but also by consumers' love of … variety. We show that the love-of-variety effect enables welfare gains from trade even if total consumption decreases. Total …