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The authors analyze whether the US-Japan Trade Agreement is consistent with GATT Article XXIV that carves out an … "substantially all the trade" criterion of GATT Article XXIV since the scope of tariff liberalization is very narrow. The US and …Die Autoren analysieren, ob das Handelsabkommen zwischen den USA und Japan mit dem GATT-Artikel XXIV vereinbar ist, der …
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The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on the span between the start of trade talks and their...
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We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may be incomplete. Inspite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on the structure of the optimal trade agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the...
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goods - The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT). The present study is one of two background studies for this … project*. The first study, The Genesis of the GATT, appraises the rationale for the creation of the GATT, and tracks its …
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