Tariff water –the difference between bound and applied duties– provides relevant information on domestic trade policy … and WTO trade negotiations. This paper examines the general and sectoral tariff structure of 120 economies, using …

The outcome of trade policies to increase access for foreign firms to the home country's market is shown to be …

The outcome of trade policies to increase access for foreign firms to the home country's market is shown to be …

This paper extends the influence-driven model of trade policy determination to include general equilibrium effets on …

Every country in the world must settle on an international trade policy. Does it engage in any international trade, and … if so, to what extent does it pursue a set of policies which in some way restricts the free flow of international trade …? Few countries, if any, choose either extreme -- no trade of perfectly free international trade. …

s. The paper shows that trade and research and development trends are highly skewed in favor of the North and this means …

countries. Instead, evidence suggests that past use of antidumping may have led to less rather than more trade liberalization. …

clout in international commercial negotiations. Yet, since the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) creation in 1995, it is … difficult to point to a string of successes for the European Commission's (EC's) often beleaguered trade negotiators. Even the … abandon its moratorium on negotiating new free trade agreements seems more of a stop-gap measure to maintain some negotiating …