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The cost of EU trade protection in textiles and clothing
Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000
This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the textile and clothing (T&C) industries command sizeable shares...
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Non-tariff trade policy analysis : an ex-post assessment of the EU-Korea agreement
Gruebler, Julia; Reiter, Oliver - 2020
surveys, on complaints by trading partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) or notifications by companies or countries … sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) against which trading partners issued complaints at the WTO. …
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Characterising non-tariff trade policy
Gruebler, Julia; Reiter, Oliver - 2020
the WTO's service in providing transparency over members' trade policies. …
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India's Free Trade Agreement with European Union
Kashif, Mohammad - 2014
For over several years, since 2007, India and the European Union (EU) have been negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA). The nation is trying to tie-up the largest trade and investment deal. It deals with the liberalisation of goods in trade, the deregulation of services, investment and...
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Vaping Solutions : An Easy Brexit Win
Snowdon, Christopher - 2021
The UK and Sweden have the lowest smoking rates in the European Union as a result of consumers switching from cigarettes to low risk nicotine products. Public Health England and other health organisations have concluded that the health risks of vaping are unlikely to exceed 5% of the risks of...
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Fragmentation and Immiserising Specialisation : The Case of the Textile and Clothing Sector
Gimet, Céline - 2011
With production activity tending rapidly towards international fragmentation, this study examines the consequences for labour countries of the forms of specialisation brought about by fragmentation processes. It further addresses the risk that fragmented sectors may become excluded from greater...
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Distortion effects of export quota policy : an analysis of the China - Raw Materials dispute
Charlier, Christophe; Guillou, Sarah - 2014
The China - Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and …
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WTO dispute settlement : an economic analysis of four EU-US mini trade wars
Breuss, Fritz - 2004
Since its inception in 1995, more than 312 disputes have been raised under the WTO Dispute Settlement System. Despite … retaliating country and amount to "shooting oneself in the foot". Trade wars can only be won by large countries. The WTO …
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General …:2); (ii) "multilateralization" of the GPA; (iii) the reactivation of work in the (currently inactive) WTO Working Group …
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The EU model and Turkey : a case for thanksgiving?
Hartler, Christina; Laird, Samuel - 1999 - Manuscript date: January 1999
The EU model is being progressively transmitted to other economies through expansion of membership and various preferential agreements. Since EU trade polices have been criticised in a number of respects, this could be a matter of concern to the international community. However, in the case of...
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