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Regional Trade Agreements Versus Global Trade Liberalisation : Implications for a Small Island Developing State

Asafu-Adjaye, John; Mahadevan, Renuka - 2007

This study undertakes an empirical investigation of the macroeconomic and sectoral impacts of two forms of regional trade agreements vis-à-vis global trade liberalisation on a small island country, using Fiji as a case study. In order to capture the feed-back effects of such a complex set of...

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The Fatal Flaw in NAFTA, GATT and All Other Trade Agreements

McGee, Robert W. - 2013

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Do Terms-of-Trade Effects Matter for Trade Agreements? Evidence from WTO Countries

Ludema, Rodney D. - 2011

fraction of world trade.This paper investigates whether MFN tariffs set by existing WTO members in the Uruguay round are …

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Do Free Trade Agreements Actually Increase Members' International Trade?

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - 2014

For more than forty years, the gravity equation has been a workhorse for cross-country empirical analyses of international trade flows and, in particular, the effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. However, the gravity equation is subject to the same econometric critique as...

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The Chapeau of the General Exceptions in the WTO GATT and GATS Agreements : A Reconstruction

Bartels, Lorand - 2017

This article presents a new interpretation of the Chapeau of Article XX of the GATT. The basis for this interpretation is a structural analysis of Article XX according to which this provision establishes a right to adopt measures for specific purposes that is subject to specific conditions set...

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Freeing Trade at the Expense of Local Crop Markets? : A Look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership's New Plant-Related Intellectual Property Rights from a Human Rights Perspective

Brennan, Hannah; Kilic, Burcu - 2015

On October 16, 2014, a new draft of the intellectual property chapter of the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) was leaked. The intellectual property chapter released in October contains a plant-related intellectual property provision proposed by the United States and Japan that could pose a serious...

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The Effects of a China-US Free Trade and Investment Agreement

Petri, Peter A.; Plummer, Michael G.; Zhai, Fan - 2014

Neither of the major negotiations underway in the Asia-Pacific region, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, includes both China and the United States. By failing to connect these economies, these agreements would leave much of the economic and...

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Poverty Impacts of a WTO Agreement : Synthesis and Overview

Hertel, Thomas W.; Winters, L. Alan - 2006

are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national … cross-section analysis, and a global analysis provides estimates for the world as a whole …

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Market Access Liberalisation in the Doha Round : Scenarios and Assessment

Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; Guerin, Jean Louis; Jean, … - 2014

The modalities of negotiation on market access for agricultural and non-agricultural products are an important item of the Doha Development Agenda. The dispersion of tariffs remains very large, translating into sizeable economic distortions. In particular, tariff peaks are numerous and highly...

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Competition Policy, Trade and the Global Economy : Existing WTO Elements, Commitments in Regional Trade Agreements, Current Challenges and Issues for Reflection

Anderson, Robert D.; Kovacic, William E.; Müller, Anna … - 2019

importance of competition policy for world trade is also manifested by the increasing incorporation of undertakings on … economies in the world had national competition legislation, currently, about 135 WTO Members have such laws. These include all …

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