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system have increased. Several trends are taking public policies further away from the core WTO disciplines of non … stalled Doha Round negotiation where differentiation among WTO members has become a key source of discord. We identify and … advocates of the developing country position at the WTO. Third, in view of the deadlock at the WTO, the US and EU, and other …
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The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations was suspended for almost six months in 2006. The purpose of this paper is to ask what scholars can learn about the political economy of reciprocal trade liberalisation from this suspension. Specifically, four potential explanations for this...
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first develop a realistic ‘baseline’ that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the …
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Little progress has been made since the creation of the WTO in expanding and deepening the coverage of services … for the WTO; (iv) standard political economy factors such as adjustment costs and resistance by incumbents to erosion of … rents; and (v) concerns that the WTO will affect the ability of regulators to enforce national norms. We argue that all of …
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WTO trade talks. Our analysis shows that fostering either domestic competition or transparency in state contracting tends …
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should represent one immediate contribution that the WTO can make to fight against climate change. This paper presents the … key issues surrounding liberalized trade in climate-friendly goods and technologies in WTO environmental goods … negotiations. It begins with what products to liberalize and how. Clearly, WTO environmental goods negotiations to date show that …
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develop a realistic "base1ine" that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the enlargement of …
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Preferential tariff rates are often not utilized by qualified beneficiaries. Two reasons are complex rules of origin and erosion of preference margins as a result of multilateral trade liberalization. Our paper contributes to this research by providing evidence from high-quality disaggregated...
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Many development experts worry that continuing reductions of tariff levels in high-income countries will limit trade flows from developing countries that benefit from preferential trade programs because of “preference erosion.” Using a panel of U.S. import data between the years of 1997 and...
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In the presence of multilateral negotiations, are Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) necessary for, or will they prevent, global free trade? I answer this question using a dynamic farsighted model of network formation among asymmetric countries. Ultimately, FTAs prevent global free trade when there...
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