global income gains of $295 billion (including $78 billion for the United States) and offers a pathway to free trade in the …

The idea of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement goes beyond the traditional concept of trade liberalization … and, apart from the elimination of tariffs in trade of goods, it also includes the reduction/removal of non …-tariff barriers, the liberalization of the investment regime, the liberalization of trade in services, and the far …

Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). The move towards the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 and the attempts to …

trade model, updating results reported in Petri, Plummer, and Zhai (2012) with recent data and information from the …

International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of … effects” that are arguably related to the ICT revolution that started around 1985, and (ii) the implementation of Free Trade … capture the emergence of GVCs by disentangling domestic and international trade in final goods and intermediate inputs …

This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the free trade agreements between Bosnia and Herzegovina and its regional … model framework and describes the trade barriers that were identified during interviews with BiH companies and other … stakeholders. The concluding section contains specific recommendations for general and trade-specific policies that could help in …

2007. This paper uses a CGE model to evaluate the impact of the SADC FTA on Madagascar economy. The results suggest that … the SADC FTA would only have a limited impact on Madagascar's real GDP because the liberalization affects only a small … share of its total imports. However, Madagascar's trade and production pattern would change and benefit the textile and …

, while it will be a trade-diverting FTA to Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Japan …This paper aims to quantify the potential effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) being … affected by the TTIP. This implies that the TTIP will be a trade-creating free trade agreement to Korea, Russia and the ROW …

This paper studies the role of reduced barriers to international trade from two dimensions: (i) the implementation of … Free Trade Agreements and (ii) declining "border effects". Our empirical estimates suggest that diminished border effects … accounts for the bulk of the increase in international trade in manufactured goods since 1970. The cost of a national border …