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-RTA safeguards), the study analyses provisions governing injury assessment, causation, conditions for the invocation of a measure and … the types of measures that may be employed. We use the yardstick of GATT Article XIX and the WTO Safeguards Agreement to … multilateral rules. The study also includes an inventory of infant industry, balance of payments, and special safeguards applicable …
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This paper maps the provisions on anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards in seventy-four regional trade … place. RTA provisions on global safeguards require that, under certain conditions, RTA partners be exempted from …
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This paper maps and examines the provisions on anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards in seventy …, many of the provisions on bilateral safeguards lead to tightened discipline or reduce the incentives to take safeguard … safeguards require that, under certain conditions, RTA partners be exempted from multilateral safeguard actions. This conflicts …
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The European Union has recently shifted to a trade policy that envisages a greater use of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). In particular the EU is working on a number of new FTA initiatives. Policy statements also reiterate the EU's commitment to multilateralism in trade and to the completion of...
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The TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) tends to be attributed to the regional and bilateral efforts of the United States. This paper suggests that such a perception is mistaken. The EU certainly seeks to...
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Trade policy in Asia has switched from non-discriminatory unilateral liberalisation, reinforced by GATT/ WTO commitments, to discriminatory FTAs. The paper surveys the FTA activity of the major regional players: China, India, the ASEAN countries, Japan and South Korea. It concludes that emerging...
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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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This report assesses the progress of the implementation of environmental provisions in RTAs. It focuses on the extent to which governments have complied with the environmental commitments made in the trade agreements to which they are a Party. The report takes a two track approach. First, a...
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This report aims to test whether the inclusion of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) has contributed to the improvement of environmental quality among the Parties to these agreements through empirical modelling and analysis. Three indicators are considered as a proxy...
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The world economy is evolving towards multipolar globalization, and China has become a new pole of economic development. Ukraine, like other countries, is looking for ways to cooperate with China in the field of trade and investment. China, for its part, offers a model of cooperation within the...
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