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The cost of EU trade protection in textiles and clothing
Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000
This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the textile and clothing (T&C) industries command sizeable shares...
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Post-Mfa Adjustments in India's Textile and Apparel Industry : Emerging Issues and Trends
Tewari, Meenu - 2005
India, a late integrator in the global market for clothing, has followed a path to integration that is quite different from the experience of some of its major competitors. Unlike China, Mexico, Eastern Europe and other South Asian countries, India's recent surge in clothing exports has occurred...
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Textiles and Clothing : The End of Discriminatory Protection
Fouquin, Michel - 2013
The dismantling of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement by 2005 and China's forthcoming membership of the WTO, as the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049448
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Free Trade Among South, East and South-East Asian Countries a Step towards Asian Integration
Ahmed, Shahid - 2015
This study investigates the potential trade flows between countries of South, East and South East Asian region as a result of tariff liberalization using the GTAP-model. The study reveals that tariff liberalization has positive effects on all country groupings of South, East and South East Asian...
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The Imperfect Substitutes Model in South Asia : Pakistan-India Trade Liberalization in the Negative List
Gopalan, Sasidaran; Malik, Ammar A; Reinert, Kenneth A. - 2013
In a large number of circumstances, trade policy modelers turn to partial equilibrium modeling in an imperfect substitutes framework. This paper develops a formal representation of this imperfect substitutes model and applies it to trade liberalization within the negative list between Pakistan...
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Measuring China’s trade liberalization: A generalized measure of trade restrictiveness index
Chen, Bo; Ma, Hong; Xu, Yuan - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 994-1006
trade restrictiveness has evolved in China from 1997 to 2008, the period in which China entered the WTO. The GTRI indicates … pursued prior to China’s WTO accession. Finally, we calculate the welfare loss and terms-of-trade gain due to tariff … protection. The overall tariff pass-through increases from around 28% to almost 47% because of the WTO. …
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Export diversification effects of the WTO trade facilitation agreement
Beverelli, Cosimo; Neumüller, Simon; Teh, Robert - 2015
We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on export diversification, as measured by two extensive margins: the number of products exported by destination and the number of export destinations served by product. To address the issue of causality, we employ an identification strategy whereby...
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The German economy and EU industrial tariff reductions : partial and CGE analyses of a stillborn Millennium Round
Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000
The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...
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A new look at the extensive trade margin effects of trade facilitation
Beverelli, Cosimo; Neumüller, Simon; Teh, Robert - 2014 - Manuscript date: 13 October 2014
Indicators - which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bali WTO Ministerial Conference of December …
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Trade policy substitution : theory and evidence from Specific Trade Concerns
Beverelli, Cosimo; Boffa, Mauro; Keck, Alexander - 2014 - Manuscript date: 29 October 2014
We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member …
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