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El Impacto de los Cambios en el Sistema Generalizado de Eneralizado de Preferencias (SGP) de la Union Europea (UE) en Paise Asiaticos y Latinoamericanos (The Impact of the EU Gener...

Cuyvers, Ludo - 2012

The impact of changes in the Generalized System of Preferences of the European Union, on the EU GSP imports from … beneficiary countries in ASEAN and China, and Latin America respectively, and the utilization of GSP benefits by these countries … that EU GSP agricultural imports are negatively affected by the changes in the EU GSP system, but these of industrial …

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Preferences, Rent Destruction and Multilateral Liberalisation : The Building Block Effect of CUSFTA

Ketterer, Tobias - 2012

If a free trade agreement (FTA) is characterized by the exchange of market access with a large and competitive trading partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external tariff cuts. This rent destruction effect of an FTA can...

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Importer price effects of tariffs in the context of preferential trade agreements : the case of poultry in South Africa

Chien, Jing Woei; Edwards, Lawrence; Hlatshwayo, Ayanda - 2024

Using highly disaggregated customs-transaction-level data, we study the importer price effects of tariffs in the context of preferential trade agreements for South African imports of frozen bone-in chicken. We focus first on the firm-level impact of tariffs on import prices. Findings suggest no...

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Causality and Efficiency in the Coffee Futures Market

Kebede, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

Tests for causality and rationality in the coffee futures market were carried out using data from the New York Market. Tests of causality indicated that futures prices strongly influence variations in spot price eight weeks or more to maturity. However, beginning seven weeks to maturity there...

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Least-Developed Countries' Trade During the "Super-Cycle" and the Great Trade Collapse: Patterns and Stylized Facts

Escaith, Hubert; Tamenu, Bekele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

LDCs' trade patterns changed in the past decade, thanks to the rebalancing of global demand towards large emerging countries and the resulting cycle of high international commodity prices. This process led to a wider geographical diversification of LDCs' exports but contributed also to a greater...

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Sri Lanka's Trade Policies: Back to Protectionism

Pursell, Garry; Ahsan, F.M. Ziaul - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

In 1977 Sri Lanka was the first of the South Asian countries to decisively move away from the protectionist import-substitution trade policies that for many years had damaged their economic efficiency and hobbled their economic growth. Albeit with back-tracking episodes, Sri Lanka's liberalising...

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Has Trade Intensity in ASEAN+3 Really Increased? Evidence from a Gravity Analysis

Kim, Heungchong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2002

This study examines the observable phenomenon of growing trade intensity among the ASEAN+3 countries over the last twenty years by using standard gravity approach. While there is a conventional belief that trade intensities within CJK (China Japan and Korea) and between CJK and ASEAN have...

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Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard - In: Journal of Economic Literature 48 (2010) 3, pp. 642-92

A substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services since the mid-1980s. Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature touches on...

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International Trade in Used Vehicles: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA

Davis, Lucas W.; Kahn, Matthew E. - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2 (2010) 4, pp. 58-82

Since trade restrictions were eliminated in 2005, Mexico has imported over 2.5 million used vehicles from the United States. Using a unique, vehicle-level dataset, we find that traded vehicles are dirtier than the stock of vehicles in the United States and cleaner than the stock in Mexico, so...

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Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and U.S. Trade Policy

Hakobyan, Shushanik - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011

of Competitive Needs Limits (CNL) built into the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). CNLs are arguably imposed on … super competitive GSP beneficiaries and aim to limit their exporting capacity. We exploit the variation in the timing of the … implementation of the CNLs across countries to identify the impact. We find that being excluded from the GSP due to a CNL induces a …

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