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Trade policy uncertainty as barrier to trade
Osnago, Alberto; Piermartini, Roberta; Rocha, Nadia - 2015 - Manuscript date: April 2015
This paper studies the effects of trade policy uncertainty on the extensive and the intensive margins of trade for a sample of 149 exporters at the HS6 digit level. We measure trade policy uncertainty as the gap between binding tariff commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional...
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Trade policy substitution : theory and evidence from Specific Trade Concerns
Beverelli, Cosimo; Boffa, Mauro; Keck, Alexander - 2014 - Manuscript date: 29 October 2014
We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member in a given sector is affected by past reductions in applied tariffs. Employing an identification strategy based on 'new measures', we find evidence of a substitution of...
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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The layers of the IT Agreement's trade impact
Henn, Christian; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik - 2015 - Manuscript date: February 2015
The WTO's plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper presents a comprehensive study of its trade impacts by incorporating recent insights from both the global value chain (GVC) and time in trade literatures. Inserting tariffs...
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Trade Policy Review and Dispute Settlement at the WTO
Froese, Marc D. - 2014
trade that are flagged by the World Trade Organization's TPRM and subsequent challenges brought to the Dispute Settlement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066260
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Trade Policy, New Century : The WTO, FTAs and Asia Rising
Sally, Razeen - 2008
In recent years, debates on international trade policy have focused on the role of the World Trade Organization and the … drive trade liberalisation. Also, the world's fastest growing economies are those Asian economies that have embraced free … respond by removing their own protectionism. Unilateral action, not trade negotiations, is the key: the world cannot wait for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724128
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Multilateral Trade Negotiations in the Gatt and the WTO : Lessons for Asia
Fung, K. C. - 2008
This paper aims to help Asian trade negotiators by examining the processes and results of the Uruguay Round. Analysts argue that trade negotiations are based on mercantilistic rules. But the actual outcome of the Uruguay Round suggests that trade bargaining was not based on strict reciprocity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768977
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Saving Multilateralism in a Higgledy-Piggledy Trading System
Jovanovic, Miroslav N. - 2015
. The World Trade Organization (WTO) still has important assets: to convene/service meetings and to settle trade disputes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027067
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US-China Conflict in Global Trade Governance : The New Politics of Agricultural Subsidies at the WTO
Hopewell, Kristen - 2021
but underappreciated change has taken place, largely beneath the radar of IPE scholarship: China has emerged as the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252214
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The value of the Committee on Agriculture : mapping Q&As to trade flows
Jackson, Lee Ann; Maggi, Federica; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2020
What is the value of the WTO Committee on Agriculture? How much trade do countries talk about at the WTO? Do low-income countries participate less than they should in the work of the Committee? How important are issues not covered by notifications? What are the most important issues on which to...
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