More than half of the World Trade Organization (WTO)-notified services trade agreements (STAs) in effect since 2008 …) determinants of preferential trade agreements and using the World Bank's database on the restrictiveness of domestic services … levels of preexisting trade, and restrictive services regulations are more likely candidates for regulatory convergence. Our …

The sheer size of the EU and US economies combined suggests substantial economic benefits from eliminating tariffs … demonstrate gains on the level of GDP per capita from 0.5 to 4.0% for the EU and a similar span for the US. Almost all of the … variety, and higher productivity. Virtually all EU member states benefit, while TTIP outsiders may lose. Estimates of job …

protect EU growers of certain fruits and vegetables against international competition. We represent these trade costs in the … Africa’s exports of tomatoes to the EU from 2008 to 2013, using the gravity model of trade. Our results show that at both the … extensive and intensive margins of trade, the high stringency of EU pesticide standard prevents new entry into the EU market …

development cooperation and trade relations between the European Union on the one hand, and a subgrouping of the African … EPA, which require CARIFORUM countries to extend to the EU any more favourable treatment granted to third parties in … future Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) has generated some controversy. This note critically examines the arguments that have …

In late-January 2012, the Appellate Body to the World Trade Organization (WTO) published its decision in a dispute … of China (China-Raw Materials). The Appellate Body's decision, as well as marking an important chapter in Sino-US trade … relations, provides needed guidance on a much-contested question in trade law circles: when can the savings clause provided by …

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union. This initiative is big news, and potentially a game …-changer for trade liberalization. For years now, trade talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other fora have been … trade, and are at the same development level, perhaps trade negotiators will at last have some success. A completed …

integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas, the paper concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less … of a failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future …

, margin of trade between Japan and China after China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The new goods account … for 15.9% of Japanese exports to China and 22% of Chinese exports to Japan after trade liberalization. For the case of … Chinese exports to Japan, a time series measure shows the growth in new goods coincides with the timing of the trade …

of trade between Austria and the ten new entrants to the European Union in 2004. On average, the new goods account for 42 …% of the bilateral trade flow after enlargement. A time series measure shows growth in the new goods margin coincides with … in trade following a trade liberalization …