are: (i) trade facilitation and reduction in border costs; (ii) services liberalization; and (iii) standards harmonization … impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or … multilateral trade policy commitments. They find that a DCFTA with the EU will likely result in substantial gains to Armenia, but …

countries' trade regimes. They are used in highly protected developing economies as means of providing exporters with imported …. In China, duty exemptions have been central to the process of trade reform and have led to a tremendous increase in …;new trade liberalizationquot; instruments have been given relatively little attention in empirical multilateral trade …

The rapid rise of China is quickly reshaping the world economy. From the perspectives of trade and development, what … explains China's remarkable growth? With respect to the nature and impact of its trade and investment policy, China remains a … analysis of the evolution of China's foreign trade policy from a trade and development perspective. Examining some of the key …

essential role of services for economic development; the high costs imposed by trade protection; the benefits of liberalization …

With the trade normalization process between India and Pakistan gathering momentum since November 2011, new … opportunities for enhancing bilateral trade have opened between the two countries. This study estimates the trade potential between … India and Pakistan, and examines how this potential can be realized. Using the Trade Possibility Approach for all items …

WTO. We start by examining the effect of accession on trade policy and distinguish between the effects of accession … market access, governance, government budget, structural reforms, trade and investment arrangements with regional partners … played a role, albeit not an exclusive one in the process of liberalization, that the costs of WTO Membership are not …

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 …

What is the value of the WTO Committee on Agriculture? How much trade do countries talk about at the WTO? Do low … to match. Using this new database, we show that (i) questions covered at least $778 billion of agricultural trade over … the period 1996-2016 (or 3% of total trade in agriculture); (ii) on average, when a Member receives a question the …

This paper presents new data on regulatory barriers affecting services trade within the European Economic Area (EEA …), covering 25 EEA countries, 22 sectors and five years (2014-2018). Following the methodology of the OECD Services Trade …-EEA STRIs reveal that services trade restrictiveness within the Single Market is considerably lower than the applied MFN regime …

. Owing to this linkage, trade cost reductions induce cartel members to adjust their sales, not only due to direct effects …, but also due to spillover effects related to cartel discipline. We apply these ideas to preferential trade agreements … (PTAs) and show that the indirect effects can give rise to trade diversion. We also characterize the welfare effects of …