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This paper examines how varying antidumping methodologies applied within the WTO differ in the extent to which they … reduce targeted exports. We show that antidumping duties, on average, hit Chinese exporters harder than those of other … differently compared to specific duties or duties conditional on the export price. Overall, however, antidumping duties remain …
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We formalize the notion that GATT exceptions such as antidumping and escape clause actions can act as insurance for …
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Despite being an agreement designed for the fastest developing sectors, the signatories of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have so far failed to re-negotiate the coverage of the ITA (concluded in 1996) due to a longstanding dispute amongst its...
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With a growing integration via trade and investment, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that have traditionally been oriented towards domestic markets increasingly compete with private firms in the global market place. Three principal questions emerge from the international trade perspective: (1)...
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The rapid rise in global fragmentation - foreign investment, global supply chains, and 'production sharing' - is fundamentally reshaping the multilateral trading system. This paper uses a simple economic modeling framework to understand how the global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape the...
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This research paper evaluates the relative significance of World Trade Organisation (WTO) accession in general and that of WTO led liberalisation in particular in increasing an East Asian and Pacific (EAP) developing country's desirability for foreign direct investors. Other FDI influencing...
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This paper analyses the most recent WTO Appellate Body (AB) report in a series of disputes between the U.S. and the EU over government support to aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus. The measures under dispute in U.S. – Tax Incentives were investment promotion subsidies provided to Boeing...
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This article analyses the most recent WTO Appellate Body (AB) report in a series of disputes between the U.S. and the EU over government support to aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus. The measures under dispute in US – Tax Incentives were investment promotion subsidies provided to Boeing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910125
The WTO Agreements emphasize freer trade, which links with diversity, deregulation, and decentralization. China, on the other hand, emphasizes uniformity and centralization especially regarding the political control and the one-party system of ‘democratic dictatorship'. China's joining the...
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Owing to innovations and a growing consumer demand for better and safer products, the number of technical standards has been steadily increasing in recent years. As standardization is a major catalyst to global commerce, The World Trade Organization (WTO), a typical consensus-driven...
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