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Services rules in regional trade agreements: How diverse and how creative as compared to the GATS multilateral rules?

Latrille, Pierre; Lee, Juneyoung - 2012

The study tries first to assess the extent of similarities and divergences among services rules in regional trade agreements as compared to the GATS. To do so, it uses a typology identifying variations in 48 key provisions structured under seven themes commonly found in RTAs and using the GATS...

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Measuring China’s trade liberalization: A generalized measure of trade restrictiveness index

Chen, Bo; Ma, Hong; Xu, Yuan - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 994-1006

trade restrictiveness has evolved in China from 1997 to 2008, the period in which China entered the WTO. The GTRI indicates … pursued prior to China’s WTO accession. Finally, we calculate the welfare loss and terms-of-trade gain due to tariff … protection. The overall tariff pass-through increases from around 28% to almost 47% because of the WTO. …

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Who Profits from Trade Facilitation Initiatives?

Hoekman, Bernard; Shepherd, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation—measures to reduce the overall costs of the international movement of goods. From an equity perspective an important question is how those benefits are distributed across and within...

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WTO Membership for China: To Be and Not to Be: Is that the Answer?

Ostry, Sylvia - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

supranational juridical system housed in the WTO, which is becoming increasingly litigious. It will be extremely difficult to … integrate the nontransparent way the Chinese economy functions without “rule of law” into the WTO’s highly legalized system. The … Chinese will also make it more difficult to achieve the “consensus” required for the WTO to function. In addition, Chinese …

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Indian Antidumping Measures against China: Evidence from Monthly Trade Data

Vandenbussche, Hylke; Viegelahn, Christian - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2012

China’s importance for India as a trading partner has increased tremendously over the recent years. At the same time, China has become the main target of Indian antidumping measures with a number of measures that is unprecedented worldwide. This paper provides a detailed analysis of trade...

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Trade Agreements and Enforcement: Evidence from WTO Dispute Settlement

Bown, Chad P.; Reynolds, Kara M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

theory guides our empirical assessment. We use instrumental variables to estimate the model on trade volume outcomes from WTO …

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Trade Facilitation Indicators: The Potential Impact of Trade Facilitation on Developing Countries' Trade

Moïsé, Evdokia; Sorescu, Silvia - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

the main policy areas under negotiation at the WTO, with the aim to estimate the impact of addressing specific hurdles in …

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Deep Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements: How Multilateral-friendly?: An Overview of OECD Findings

Lejárraga, Iza - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014

OECD work on RTAs by examining regional provisions that deepen (WTO-plus) and expand (WTO-beyond) multilateral commitments … across a broad range of policy areas. It finds that WTO-plus measures are becoming more widespread and similar over time … set of attributes that may be able to render WTO-plus provisions more amenable to multilateralisation, either through a …

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State-Owned Enterprises: Trade Effects and Policy Implications

Kowalski, Przemyslaw; Büge, Max; Sztajerowska, Monika; … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

With a growing integration via trade and investment, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that have traditionally been oriented towards domestic markets increasingly compete with private firms in the global market place. Three principal questions emerge from the international trade perspective: (1)...

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Multilateralising Regionalism on Government Procurement

Ueno, Asako - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

The potential multilateralisation of government procurement commitments in regional trade agreements (RTAs) presents many issues and challenges. To what extent do RTAs go beyond the 2012 revised Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), and how do they differ among trading partners? This report...

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