and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on …

econometrics, I show that tariffs on parts and components, a crucial locational determinant for Japanese firms, converged across … countries following a contagion pattern. Tariffs followed those of competing countries if the latter were lower, if FDI jealousy …

negotiated between the EU and the U.S. on the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). The BRICS is … BRICS is expected to gain from the TTIP a slight additional increase in the real GDP. Brazil, India, China and South Africa …, while it will be a trade-diverting FTA to Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Japan …

environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … challenge to MNEs' subsidiaries' activity and performance than tariffs do. High-tech manufacturing subsidiaries of foreign MNEs …