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Tracking sustainability in free trade agreements : issues of interest for the Commonwealth

Meliado, Fabrizio - 2017

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European Union policy towards Free Trade Agreements

Woolcock, Stephen - 2007

The European Union has recently shifted to a trade policy that envisages a greater use of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). In particular the EU is working on a number of new FTA initiatives. Policy statements also reiterate the EU's commitment to multilateralism in trade and to the completion of...

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On the widely differing effects of free trade agreements : lessons from twenty years of trade integration

Baier, Scott L.; Yotov, Yoto V.; Zylkin, Thomas - 2016

We develop a novel two-stage methodology that allows us to study the empirical determinants of the ex post effects of past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify 908 unique estimates of the effects of FTAs on different...

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Do trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements matter? : impact on trade costs and multilateral spillovers

Duval, Yann; Neufeld, Nora; Utoktham, Chorthip - 2016

The scope and depth of bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (RTAs) negotiated over the past 15 years has expanded beyond traditional market access and preferential tariffs to include provisions on a wide range of issues, including trade facilitation. This study is a first attempt...

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Digital trade facilitation : paperless trade in regional trade agreements

Duval, Yann; Mengjing, Kong - 2017

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 enabling effective participation in cross-border...

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From spaghetti bowl to jigsaw puzzle? : addressing the disarray in the world trade system

Menon, Jayant - 2014

-Pacific Partnership (TPP) suggests that the world trade system is fragmenting to the point it appears more like a jigsaw puzzle than a … spaghetti bowl. There are both regional and global jigsaw puzzles to be solved - in that order - to clean up the world trade … known, while piecing together the blocs around the world to form a coherent whole is even more challenging. In this context …

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Trade facilitation measures under free trade agreements : are they discriminatory against non-members?

Yamanaka, Shintarō; Tafgar, Aiken; Lazaro, Dorothea - 2010

Are trade facilitation measures under free trade agreements (FTAs) discriminatory? This important question has yet to be sufficiently explored by the existing literature on trade facilitation. Despite the multilateral scope and non-discriminatory objectives of trade facilitation measures, some...

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The changing landscape of regional trade agreements

Crawford, Jo-Ann; Fiorentino, Roberto V. - 2005

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Market access provisions in regional trade agreement

Estevadeordal, Antoni; Shearer, Matthew; Suominen, Kati - 2009

Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have proliferated over the past decade around the world to cover nearly half of global … trade. The number of RTAs notified to the WTO is approaching 200, while the total number of RTAs around the world exceeds …

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Global trade in final goods and intermediate inputs : impact of FTAs and reduced "border effects"

Franco-Bedoya, Sebastian; Frohm, Erik - 2020

International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of global value chains (GVCs). This paper studies how two factors contributed to this rise since 1970: (i) declining "border effects" that are arguably related to the ICT revolution...

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