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Reopening Pandora's box in search of a WTO-compatible industrial policy? : the Brazil - taxation dispute

Ornelas, Emanuel; Puccio, Laura - 2019

Japan against seven different Brazilian industrial subsidy programmes. One concerned the automotive sector and represents a … or imports. The ensuing WTO dispute raises important issues concerning the WTO-compatibility of subsidy measures. In … particular, the Appellate Body (AB) reversed the panel findings with respect to two issues: the extent to which subsidy measures …

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Rethinking export incentives in India

Hoda, Anwarul - 2020

India's graduation from the ranks of low-income countries, making it ineligible under the WTO rules to grant export subsidies on manufactures has thrown up a new policy challenge. In this context, this paper argues for the government to rethink its export incentives programme altogether and take...

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Greening regional trade agreements : subsidies related to energy and environmental goods

Yamaguchi, Shunta - 2019

Many regional trade agreements (RTAs) contain chapters and articles that are environmentally specific. However, Parties can elect to more broadly incorporate environmental objectives in their RTAs to address their environmental concerns in such agreements. This report investigates in what ways...

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An analysis of the new trade regime for state-owned enterprises under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Yun, Mikyung - In: Journal of East Asian economic integration 20 (2016) 1, pp. 3-35

This paper analyses the new discipline on state-owned enterprises contained in the recently concluded Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, and evaluates various factors that influenced the shaping of its specific rules. The new discipline consolidates and strengthens related provisions in...

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Environmental protection for sale : strategic green industrial policy and climate finance

Fischer, Carolyn - 2016

Industrial policy has long been criticized as subject to protectionist interests; accordingly, subsidies to domestic producers face disciplines under World Trade Organization agreements, without exceptions for environmental purposes. Now green industrial policy is gaining popularity as...

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Subsidizing Rent-Seeking : Antidumping Protection and the Byrd Amendment

Reynolds, Kara M. - 2004

Theoretical comparisons of the welfare consequences of tariffs, subsidies and import licenses have relied on the assumption that firms reap no private benefits from the imposition of a tariff. This paper conducts an empirical analysis of whether a recent change in U.S. antidumping law known as...

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The Trade Policy Collision of Our Times : China’s Subsidies Encounter Abba Lerner and David Ricardo

Ciuriak, Dan - 2021

subsidy regimes in the rest of the world. It concludes that the net effect of China’s subsidies is much less than commonly …

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The noodle bowl effect : stumbling or building block?

Kang, Jong Woo - 2015

Although it is well-known that a global trade regime best ensures economic welfare, there has nevertheless been a proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) between individual countries. This poses the challenge known as the "noodle bowl effect" - stemming from different rules of origins and...

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Did US Safeguard Protection on Steel Affect Market Power of European Steel Producers?

Vandenbussche, Hylke; Zarnic, Ziga - 2006

This paper empirically investigates the effects of US safeguard protection on steel imports in 2002 on the mark-ups of EU steel producers. We identify a large panel of European steel producers between 1995 and 2004 affected by the safeguards. Using the Roeger method, our results show that US...

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Multimarket linkages, cartel discipline and trade costs

Agnosteva, Delina; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2017

We build a model of tacit collusion between firms that operate in multiple markets to study the effects of trade costs. A key feature of the model is that cartel discipline is endogenous. Thus, markets that appear segmented are strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint....

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