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With the recent completion of a second Joint Study regarding a Canada-Japan Free Trade Agreement, and Canada's entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, which may eventually include Japan, the implications of trade liberalization with Asian economies gains renewed interest, in...
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For apparently irreconcilable domestic political reasons, the United States is an outlier amongst economically advanced countries as the only one that does not have a value added tax (VAT), which is the conventional and WTO-sanctioned approach to applying an economically efficient and...
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The US-China trade deal has received at best a lukewarm initial reception from the trade policy community. China is to buy US$ 200 billion of US goods and services per annum in 2020 and 2021 above 2017 baseline levels; the US lowers tariffs by 7.5% on imports from China of US$120 billion of...
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This note discusses the scale of the risks to bilateral UK-EU trade under alternative scenarios for the UK leaving the Union, including a hard Brexit, a soft EFTA-like Brefta, and the scope for the foregone UK-EU trade to be made up through alternative agreements. It comments on the risks to...
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This note develops four alternative estimates of the trade-related impacts of the United Kingdom seceding from the European Union. We contrast two basic scenarios: an exit that re-sets the UK's relationship with the rest of the EU to a WTO-rules most favoured nation basis (“Brexit”), versus...
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This study an analysis of the trade and economic implications of a Canada-ASEAN free trade agreement (FTA) using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The level of ambition is calibrated to be consistent with ASEAN's most ambitious FTA to date, namely that with Australia and New...
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The literature on the impact of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on foreign direct investment (FDI) has had difficulty establishing a robust effect of BITs on FDI flows. This conclusion extends to FDI chapters in free trade agreements (FTAs), which feature the same substantive content as...
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