Showing 1 - 10 of 23,636
This paper provides an assessment of the potential economic impacts of the Vietnam-Korea free trade agreement on Vietnam, by using general equilibrium modeling. The results show that Vietnam-Korea FTA will increase aggregate welfare for both countries in the long run. The most important gains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764940
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588117
Can consumers trust that the food they buy in the supermarket, even if imported, is not harmful to their health? What would be the consequences if their trust in existing health and safety standards were to be undermined by recognizing lower foreign standards? Against the backdrop of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632494
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311799
Many different approaches and databases have been developed for the evaluation of nontariff measures (NTMs) and free trade agreements (FTAs). This paper is devoted to the EUSouth Korea agreement, which is the first ‘second-generation’ FTA of the EU, addressing a wide array of non-tariff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235928
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430680
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038847
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882250
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622694
The “non-market” clause in the just-concluded update of NAFTA, now known as the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA …) would appear to limit Canada's options in terms of negotiating a free trade agreement with China at the present time (given … the de facto US veto over a Canada-China agreement that it provides), yet Prime Minister Trudeau has already reaffirmed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909759