The Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA will increase import competition for some forest product industries in Alabama …

We show that the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another in the … aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain than predicted by a standard gravity model. This trade surplus declines linearly …

We use Taiwanese trade data from 2009 to 2012 to examine the impacts of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Mutual … Recognition Arrangement for Conformity Assessment of Telecommunications Equipment on trade. The results show that Asia …

intra-EU trade. Next, we analyze the effect of EU harmonization of technical regulations on domestic and intra-EU trade. We … more intra-EU trade but, apparently, did not affect the so called border effect. …

The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub … extra-Asian trade, almost all sample countries concentrate their intra-Asian exports more on non-manufactures. Within … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both …

international trade. Although Peru´s relations with Asia tend to reinforce its overall position as a mineral exporter, the country … has not experienced significant “de-industrialization”. On the contrary, through aggressive pursuit of free trade … agreements (FTA) and new foreign investment, trade with Asia has increased in scope and diversity, with considerable dynamism in …

This paper examines to what extent Eastern Europe trade reorientation towards the West has been driven by market forces … versus policies for regional integration. Hierarchical cluster analysis based on bilateral trade intensity reveals the … convergence of regional trade structures to the pre- World- War II pattern. Estimates of the expected trade pattern of Eastern …