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This paper proposes a new method to predict the impact of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on trade and welfare taking the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement as a case study. Relying on a novel dataset of treaty texts covering all trade agreements notified to the WTO, we first...
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trade in policy and negotiations in developing Asia. …
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Purpose – This paper explains why free trade agreements (FTAs) are more popular than customs unions (CUs) in respect of tariff coordination. Design/methodology – This paper employs an equilibrium theory of trade agreements with tariff coordination. I set up three-country partial equilibrium...
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What is the role of domestic politics in facilitating or constraining a government's decision to participate in free trade agreements (FTAs)? This paper seeks to answer this question by focusing on the domestic politics in Japan over the Trans‐Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). In...
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This paper analyses the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between EU and India focusing on services trade. Based on the text published by the European Union, I use the OECD STRI simulator to calculate the preference margin implied by the agreement and next predict the impact on services trade...
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The agreement recently signed between Morocco and the United States foresees several modalities in dismantling tariffs. Our simulations show that the various modalities of trade liberalization may have different impacts on the welfare, the rate of growth and the sectoral trade balance of these...
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The paper provides a detailed analysis of the current U.S. - Korea free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations. The … negotiations is expected to have a significant impact on future trade relations in Asia. Its failure may lead to a pan-Asian free …
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This paper determines the impacts of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) for Brazil under alternative assumptions concerning the returns to scale and the nature of competition in several industries, emphasizing the effects on the agribusiness activities. The GTAPinGAMS applied...
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negotiations we analyze the effects on multilateral tariffs and welfare of strengthening the MFN rule and show that large and small …
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borne out in current negotiations, between the European Union and the United States, on a comprehensive free trade agreement … negotiations with the United States will be based on the GPA – in fact, that the T-TIP agreement may set a benchmark for future … protections built into that agreement. Part III describes the launch of the T-TIP negotiations between the European Union and the …
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