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In 2004, China became the third largest trading economy in the world. Although official overall average import tariff rate was reduced to 9.9% as of January 2005, actual tariff rates are likely much lower. Although further tariff reductions may lead to renewed and expanded global trade growth,...
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Trade facilitation has been a longstanding and traditional feature of GATT, which is expected to have serious …
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Special and differential treatment (S&D) provisions introduced in the GATT and the WTO in support of strengthened …
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Developing countries have been characterized by some eminent writers on the GATT as having played an essentially … defensive role in the GATT, unwilling to make tariff concessions, and are said to have focused almost exclusively on securing … literature on the GATT. This paper argues, based on empirical evidence, that the conventional argument is not an accurate …
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The acceptance of the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements will impact the U.S. peanut industry. This paper examines trade …
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Studies on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) are abundant in the literature. But most researchers have … examined GATT’s impact on economic activities with scant or no attention given to its impact on institutions such as market … agricultural trade. This study finds consistent evidence that GATT reforms promoted market integration and improved market …
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in the current multilateral General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) which was implemented on January 1, 1995. The … GATT have altered or will alter the structure and behavior of world and domestic markets for agricultural commodities … the recent GATT agreement for wheat, barley, sugar, and cattle and boxed beef, and to discuss possible implications for …
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The Uruguay Round trade negotiations completed in April 1994 reduced beef trade barriers. Trade barriers for beef products have historically been significant. The Uruguay Round essentially converts many nontariff barriers (quotas) to tariffs (tariffication), includes safeguards for import...
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Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) regarding disputes between countries, such as the V.S.-Canada dispute over trade in raw …
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We examine in detail the circumstances under which reciprocity, as defined in Bagwell and Staiger (1999), leads to fixed world prices. We show that a change of tariffs satisfying reciprocity does not necessarily imply constant world prices in a world of many goods and countries. While it is...
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