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The United States-Path to Concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership : Will TPA TAA

Lewis, Meredith Kolsky - 2022

The political economy of international trade decision-making within the United States is complex and ever-changing. The debates over the merits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the associated efforts of the Obama Administration to obtain Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), highlight...

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How free trade agreement affects the success of China's Belt and Road infrastructure projects

Hu, Beibei; Jin, Yuying; Wang, Kai - In: International studies of economics 17 (2022) 4, pp. 484-498

After China launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, the Chinese government has invested over 1200 infrastructure projects in countries along the Belt and Road, and nearly 10% of the projects have failed or been delayed. China has also concluded free trade agreements with many countries...

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China’s Economic Rise and Regional Trade

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2011

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Can bilateralism ease the pains of multilateral trade liberalization?

Cadot, Olivier; De Melo, Jaime; Olarreaga, Marcelo - 1998 - Manuscript date: June, 1998

Using the influence-driven approach to endogenous trade-policy determination, we show how a free-trade agreement (FTA) with rules of origin can work as a device to compensate losers from trade liberalization. The FTA constructed in this paper is characterized by external tariff structures that...

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The determinants of product-specific rules of origin : an econometric analysis in the regional comprehensive economic partnership

Crivelli, Pramila; Inama, Stefano; Marand, Jeremy - 2024

Rules of origin differ among overlapping free trade agreements, raising firm compliance costs, discouraging utilization of trade preferences, and hindering regional value chains. Using a unique dataset comparing the restrictiveness of product-specific rules of origin (PSRO) between the Regional...

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Trade Policy at the Crossroads - The Indonesian Story

Vanzetti, David; McGuire, Greg - 2008

. Indonesia provides an interesting case study of the potential benefits and costs of alternative trade strategies that are under … agreement with the United States is also a possibility. Against this background, Indonesia's options on trade policy range from … adjustment, estimated annual gains to Indonesia from a conservative Uruguay Round-style outcome within the WTO system total an …

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Race-To-The-Bottom Tariff Cutting

Vézina, Pierre-Louis - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2010

This paper provides an empirical assessment of race-to-the-bottom unilateralism. It suggests that decades of unilateral tariff cutting in Asia?s emerging economies have been driven by a competition to attract FDI from Japan. Using spatial econometrics, I show that tariffs on parts and...

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Protection for Sale in the EU

Belloc, Marianna - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Facoltà di Economia - 2007

This paper presents estimation of the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model for the EU. We try to address a number of pitfalls that surround the previous empirical literature. First, we suggest a new identification strategy that enables to single out politically organized sectors with specific regard to...

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Race-to-the-bottom tariff cutting

Vézina, Pierre-Louis - 2010

This paper provides an empirical assessment of race-to-the-bottom unilateralism. It suggests that decades of unilateral tariff cutting in Asia's emerging economies have been driven by a competition to attract FDI from Japan. Using spatial econometrics, I show that tariffs on parts and...

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The Politiacl economy of Regional Integration: The Supply of Trade Protection.

Bilal, S. - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 1995

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