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The ASEAN Free Trade Agreement : Impact on Trade Flows and External Trade Barriers
Calvo Pardo, Hector F. - 2014
Using detailed data on trade and tariffs from 1992-2007, the authors examine how the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has … external tariff reduction on import growth from ASEAN insiders and outsiders across HS 6-digit industries. The analysis finds …, the results imply that the ASEAN agreement has been a force for broader liberalization …
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Trade Structures, Quality Differentiation and Technical Barriers in CEE-EU Trade
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2002
In this paper we attempt to quantify the incidence of different types of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) on trade structures between seven Central and Eastern European countries (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Romania) and the European Union at the...
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Evolution in the use of antidumping mechanism after Uruguay round
de Azevedo Couto Firme, Vinícius; Vasconcelos, … - In: EconomiA 16 (2015) 3, pp. 321-342
This paper analyzed how the main economies have used the antidumping measures (AD) after the Uruguay round, between 1995 and 2012. Therefore, some techniques were employed in order to reveal the main AD users and the trend, of using this instrument, associated to each one of them. We also tested...
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Boosting Manufacturing Firms' Exports? The role of trade facilitation in Africa
Hoekstra, Ruth - 2013
Facilitating trade is essential for Africa's economic development and further integration into the world economy, as business in Africa still suffers from behind-the-border barriers to trade. Using firm level data from the World Bank's Enterprise surveys covering more than 6,500 manufacturing...
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China and India: A Tale of Two Trade Integration Approaches
Kowalski, Przemyslaw - 2008
The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals that while much has already been achieved in both these economies, the Chinese reforms, especially with respect to manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely...
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India-Korea trade and investment relations
Sahoo, Pravakar; Kumar Rai, Durgesh; Kumar, Rajiv - 2009
Though economic relations between India and Korea have been strengthening, the current size of trade and investment between the two countries is relatively low compared to the size and structural complementarities of the two economies. In this context, the present paper analyses trade and...
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Not all trade restrictions are created equally
Cole, Matthew T. - 2010
There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction of firm heterogeneity into trade models. This introduction has highlighted the importance of the entry/exit decision of firms in response to changes in trade barriers. However, it is typical in many of these...
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Need for speed : is faster trade in the EU trade-creating?
Hornok, Cecília - 2012
Timely deliveries have become more important in international trade in the recent decades, mostly because of the spread of international production fragmentation. This paper provides empirical evidence on the cost of time in trade by looking at how faster trade within the European Union (EU)...
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New Trade Restrictive Measures and Exports : Evidence from South Korea
Hyun, Hea-Jung - 2019
The world economy recently witnessed a surge in trade remedies and non-tariff measures (NTMs) as new trade-restrictive measures. This study attempts to provide empirical evidence on the effects of new trade-restrictive measures, such as anti- dumping, countervailing measures, technical barriers...
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Services trade in the United Kingdom and the global economy
Mourougane, Annabelle - 2021
Services play a more important role in trade and employment in the United Kingdom than in most other OECD countries. The UK services sector is supported by an open and transparent trade regime, policies that support competition and innovation, and regulatory transparency that facilitates the...
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