The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement among 12 Pacific Rim countries whose joint gross … domestic products (GDPs) account for 36 percent of world GDP and whose mutual trade accounts for approximately 24 percent of … world trade. As for most proposed free trade agreements (FTAs), trade economists have provided ex ante computable general …

Foreign trade represents an important factor for the economic development of a single country and a basic element in … brings an analysis of the value, dynamics and structure of the foreign trade between RM and FRG for the time period of 2001 … realized a trade surplus in the exchange with FRG as a result of the catalyst export of bearers of precious metals and their …

trade between the parties is discussed, with a particular focus on the trade in textiles under ASEM. The time range includes …

regional trade accord in history and, if approved, could have set new terms for the nearly US $28 trillion in trade and …, the present paper seeks to analyze the impact of the TPP agreement on various trade and other economic variables of China … both if the USA continues to be a part of TPP and if the USA withdraws from TPP using the Global Trade Analysis Project …

Vietnam, have a number of existing FTAs with some major TPP members and hold a significant trade share with them. However …, these countries do not have any agreements with Canada and Mexico and except Singapore, have no other trade negotiation with … model and attempts a number of simulations by calibrating various trade integration scenarios, such as tariff reduction and …

current economic cooperation will be shown through trade volume and foreign direct investment outflows from the European Union …

African countries are negotiating the African Continental Free Trade Area with the aim to spearhead global value chain … (GVC) trade among African countries as a driver for robust economic growth. This paper evaluates the participation of Sub …-Saharan African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in GVC-related trade over the period 1990-2015 using measures of backward …

improved trade facilitation could bring huge gain as a large part of Indo-Pacific trade has remained unrealized. The trade … transaction cost is one of the major trading barriers prohibiting the growth of Indo-Pacific intra-regional trade. The study … reinforces that improvement in infrastructure and connectivity that leads to less trade transportation costs should be a …

trade restrictions in recent years. This paper examines the trade patterns of North Korea with its 19 major trading partners … over the period 1989-2016. Moreover, the paper quantifies the trade barriers between North Korea and the rest of the world … by estimating border effects in a gravity model framework. The findings indicate that North Korea's trade with developed …