Published in Whittier Law Review, v.28, 2006

Trade preferences have been used by the European Union and most developing countries can export with preferential market access under different schemes. We study the trade impact of these policies using highly disaggregated 8-digit data in a theoretically grounded gravity model framework. We...

It is now common for producers (economic protectionism), consumers and social advocates (humanitarian motives) to urge for the inclusion of labour standards in international trade agreements. In spite of this, there has been little empirical work to determine whether low labour standards lead to...

A great deal of attention is currently being paid to the discussion ofthe reform of global agricultural trade. In this paper, the effects ofthe revised Harbinson paper (March 2003) are analysed with anextensively extended GTAP model. With the help of a base run,projections are implemented in the...

Croatia joined the European Union (EU) on July 1st, 2013. This paper assesses the likely effects of this accession on the agricultural and food sectors, and analyses the impact on the EU, Croatia and their main trading partners. It considers both the harmonization of Croatia's trade instruments...

Recent empirical studies have estimated the trade flow effect of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). One important, although largely untested, conclusion from this literature is that the GATT/WTO works well if...

Increased world agricultural production and lower prices helped depress U.S. agricultural exports for the first 7 months of fiscal year (FY) 1985(October 1984-Apri1 1985). Increased consumer demand, freeze damage to F10rida f s winter fruit and vegetable crops, and higher prices pushed U.S. farm...

This report presents statistical summaries of U.S. foreign trade in I agricultural products by country during calendar years 1989 and 1990. Exports and imports valued at more than $1 million are shown. U.S. Bureau of the Census Harmonized System (HS) listings are grouped in standardized economic...

Increased world agricultural production and lower prices helped depress U.S. agricultural exports for the first 7 months of fiscal year (FY) 1985 (October 1984-April 1985). Increased consumer demand, freeze damage to Florida's winter fruit and vegetable crops, and higher prices pushed U.S. farm...