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The objective of this paper is a presentation of results of an analysis of the Three Seas Initiative (TSI), whose participating countries (except Austria) treat it as a method of: a) reducing their dependence on crude oil and natural gas imports from Russia, thus increasing their energy...
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Why are trade agreements regional? I address this question in a model of oligopoly featuring product variety. Tariffs have the effect of manipulating a country's terms of trade and shifting profits towards the domestic market at the expense of foreign trade partners. Countries endogenously form...
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This paper investigates whether TBT provisions included in RTAs differ from those under the WTO TBT Agreement, and, if they do, whether they entail broader commitments. Our analysis covers 238 RTAs, of which 171 include at least one provision, and focuses on the provisions on technical...
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This paper discusses the opportunities and challenges for Southern and Eastern African ACP countries of services negotiations in the context of European Partnership Agreements. The paper provides an overview of existing flows in services from and to Southern and Eastern Africa, an overview that...
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across products or RTA parties. In some RTAs the degree of liberalization appears to be a negotiated outcome, depending on … the RTA partner. Agricultural goods continue to be subject to lower levels of liberalization, frequent product exclusions … and systematic protection in some RTAs, regardless of the RTA partner's comparative advantage. Nonetheless, a lower level …
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This study surveys preferential rules of origin applied by 192 regional trade agreements (RTAs) covering trade in goods notified to the GATT/WTO up to 1 November 2010. It takes into account the preferential rules of origin that were notified to the WTO; whenever known and available,...
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Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have become an indelible feature of the international trading landscape. Most, if not all, RTAs contain provisions that establish procedures for resolving disputes among their signatory members. Yet, the design and functioning of these dispute settlement...
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each other. The methodology followed involved surveying each RTA in the sample to determine whether it made reference to … in each RTA is then used to classify agreements according to their level of IP content. The first significant identified …
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increase RTA partners' rights to take antidumping actions at the intra-RTA level, and only a minority of regimes contains … patterns of the RTA Parties. The Paper notes, however, that deep integration among a few RTAs has been decisive in bringing … about a substantial change in the antidumping patterns of the RTA Parties concerned. It finds that legal consolidation, at …
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