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Is the Wto's Article Xxiv a Free Trade Barrier?

Zissimos, Ben; Vines, David - 2000

Why is further multilateral trade liberalisation proving so difficult to achieve? This paper shows that Article XXIV itself, the set of WTO rules governing trade block formation, undermines the multilateral liberalisation process. Trade block formation under Article XXIV can be thought of as a...

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Would Harmonizing Preferential Rules of Origin Aid Trade Liberalization?

Mabrouk, Hatem - 2019

variations, along with their complexity, are considered to be a nightmare for producers and traders all over the world … thesis offers the member countries of the World Trade Organization a proposed harmonized set of preferential rules of origin … to be hopefully implemented in the World Trade Organization system. Moreover, the thesis theoretically tests the proposal …

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Rules of origin across African regional trading agreements : a landscape with measures to address challenges at harmonization

Gourdon, Julien; Kniahin, Dzmitry; De Melo, Jaime; … - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 8 (2021) 1, pp. 96-108

To become operational, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) must harmonize Rules of Origin (ROO) across Africa's Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) along two dimensions: regime-wide rules and product-specific rules. This paper describes and evaluates these ROO across the major...

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Rules of origin and market power

Chung, Wanyu; Perroni, Carlo - 2020

We study how domestic content requirements in Free Trade Areas (FTAs) affect market power and market structure in concentrated intermediate goods markets. We show that content requirements increase oligopolistic markups beyond the level that would obtain under an equivalent import tariff, and we...

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Territoriality principle under preferential rules of origin

Kim, Chong-bŏm (contributor) - 2007

In this paper, we examine the territoriality principle under preferential rules of origin. The territoriality principle under preferential rules of origin provides that when a material is imported from outside the territory of a party, the material would be entirely treated as non-originating...

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RTAs' Proliferation and Trade-Diversion Effects : Evidence of the 'Spaghetti Bowl' Phenomenon

Sorgho, Zakaria - 2015

This paper investigates the trade-diversion effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs), so-called “Spaghetti bowl” Phenomenon (SBP), in multilateral trade. The SBP is due to the proliferation of RTAs. Thus, I investigate the relationship between the number of RTAs concluded by a country and...

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Non-tariff trade policy analysis : an ex-post assessment of the EU-Korea agreement

Gruebler, Julia; Reiter, Oliver - 2020

surveys, on complaints by trading partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) or notifications by companies or countries …

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Do hub-and-spoke free trade agreements increase trade? : a panel data analysis

Alba, Joseph; Hur, Jung; Park, Donghyun - 2010

We use panel data consisting of 96 countries and covering the period 1960–2000 to investigate the effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) and hub-and-spoke systems of FTAs on exports. Our empirical results imply an annual growth rate of 5.57% in exports, leading to a doubling of exports after...

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The welfare effect of a free trade agreement in the presence of foreign direct investment and rules of origin

Mukunoki, Hiroshi - In: Review of international economics 25 (2017) 4, pp. 733-759

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The Fatal Flaw in NAFTA, GATT and All Other Trade Agreements

McGee, Robert W. - 2013

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