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The European Union (EU) supports developing countries with a unilateral trade preference scheme. The scheme underwent a major reform in 2014, in which many countries lost access to reduced tariff rates. We analyse how this radical step that removed preferences from 103 countries by 2018 fits...
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-so-poor beneficiaries also expand foreign sales, but only if they are not WTO members. For all others, the average export effects of NRTPs …
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.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits to see whether political friends of the U.S. receive favorable treatment. While …
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of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) of the European Union (EU). EU GSP members receive non-reciprocal trade … preferences (NRTPs), but only as long as they are not too competitive; i.e. they will graduate in case their share of EU GSP …-related graduations for members of the so-called "GSP+", a sub-scheme of the main programme. We find that the reform increased EU imports …
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The Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) received much scholarly attention when it was first established in 1989, but has been overshadowed of late by dispute settlement processes. This paper examines the relationship between barriers to trade that are flagged by the World Trade Organization's...
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World Trade Organization (WTO). To revive multilateralism, it is crucial to pursue a positive approach based on the … global trading system at the same time. They should be exclusive, appealing and based on the experience of the GATT and WTO … involving all current WTO member states right from the beginning. The TCC could draw on the potential of trade policy to …
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security of market access result from increased membership of the GATT/WTO system, which itself underwent important changes as … a result of the Uruguay Round, further developed in the first Ministerial Meeting of the WTO in Singapore in December … 1996. The systemic changes and the expansion of WTO membership to the transition and other economies mark a dramatic change …
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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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We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member …
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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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