What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market … trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large emerging economies over the last decade. While there is a lively … discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of …

to trade conflict, but in reality it often does. To address the conflicts that might arise from regulatory effects abroad … governance. The scope of digital trade agreements is still evolving, but, to take one example, the recent U.S.-Japan Digital … Trade Agreement defines “digital product” as “a computer program, text, video, image, sound recording, or other product that …

This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an … integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral … trade agreements. The paper identifies also several questions for further research …

India has a large positive trade balance in the apparel sector and is ranked among the top 10 apparel exporting … Trade Organization's Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and second, India is negotiating mega-regional trade … presents India's trade in apparel products by sub-sectors and key markets, and analyses its trade competitiveness across …

Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to … simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and … dematerializing trade data and documents and enabling their electronic exchange, commonly referred to as paperless trade measures, are …

University in Israel, provides a proposal that responds to the problems posed by the increasing prevalence of regional trade … agreements. The Article argues that RTAs have tended to undermine the development of the multilateral trade system. Specifically …, they pose an institutional threat to the WTO - they drain states' enthusiasm for multilateral trade negotiations, create …

multilateral trading system in the form of the World Trade Organization (WTO) of free trade agreements (FTAs) at a time when FTAs …-specific negotiations both outside the WTO such as the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), and within, in the form of Joint Statement … Initiatives (JSIs). The article assesses from GATT formation to the present the extent to which the full range of trade agreements …

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …