EU-Japan free trade agreement negotiations have made promising progress in the shadow of highly scrutinized … Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Transpacific Partnership (TPP) talks. EU trade policy, it appears, has … only been partially and selectively politicized "in favor" of TTIP, while EU-Japan free trade agreement negotiations remind …

services trade agreements (STAs), the paper derives ones on the stringency of unilateral services provision- a general services … trade restrictiveness. For instance, one of the hypotheses is that services trade restrictiveness is endogenous, and it is … partners' general, unilateral services trade restrictiveness is more similar to theirs. These and other hypotheses are …

bilateral trade and investment agreement. Specifically, the goal is to establish that the type of agreement that will have the … to trade across all sectors of both economies without exception. Second, this paper is intended to provide the … intellectual foundation for what limited-government, free-market supporters would consider the ideal free trade agreement (FTA …

It is widely believed that trade agreements are necessary to enable the UK to prosper in world markets. In reality …, unilateral free trade is possible and offers many benefits. The UK’s exports of services to the EU owe little to the Single … Market as national barriers to trade in services still dominate in Europe. Trade agreements typically involve substantial …

to trade conflict, but in reality it often does. To address the conflicts that might arise from regulatory effects abroad … governance. The scope of digital trade agreements is still evolving, but, to take one example, the recent U.S.-Japan Digital … Trade Agreement defines “digital product” as “a computer program, text, video, image, sound recording, or other product that …

integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas. She concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less of a … failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future. -- trade …

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have become a prominent feature of the multilateral trading system and an important … instrument of trade policy for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The proliferation of FTAs is the result of a number … proliferation of FTAs in east Asia benefits the regional trade and economic growth, questions have been raised about "Asian noodle …

This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an … integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral … trade agreements. The paper identifies also several questions for further research …

regulatory issues affecting e-commerce have become more prominent in recent regional trade agreements (RTAs), the paper seeks to … investigate their role in setting the regulatory standard in this area. Indeed e-commerce- or digital trade-related obligations …