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An important issue in multilateral trade negotiations is the approach taken to reduce tariffs. The authors believe that there are important advantages in formula approaches and survey a range of options between the sharply top-down Swiss formula and proportional cuts in tariffs. Over the range...
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case of China's recent WTO accession will overstate the increase in China's trade flows by 40 percent, welfare by 15 … drawbacks are ignored. The bias in the estimates of China's real GDP, trade flows, and welfare changes due to WTO accession … inputs at world prices, thus increasing their competitiveness, while maintaining the protection on the rest of the economy …
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time in any round of multi-lateral trade negotiations. Voluntary export restraints outside the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA …
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After 18 years of negotiations, Russia has joined the World Trade Organization. This paper assesses how the tariff … structure of the Russian Federation will change as a result of the phased implementation of its World Trade Organization … impact of these policy changes. It finds that World Trade Organization commitments will progressively and significantly lower …
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This paperexamines the export behavior of Dominican Republic exporters following the implementation of the Dominican …, exports of new products, and entry into the Agreement’s markets. The paper analyzes whether the agreement prevents incumbent …
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markets constrained SSA's export growth. The authors find that on the whole SSA suffered relatively little from either tariff … treatment, especially in the EC, and also, it is because their exports are heavy in primary goods which aregenerally subject to … markets has constrained export growth in SSA. …
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This paper investigates the role played by domestic importers and foreign exporters in improving preferential access to the domestic market. To this end, the framework used in this paper extends the protection for sale analysis to explicitly model the role of domestic importers and foreign...
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can be summarized as follows: (1) Developments in Bulgaria's exports, its major drivers and factor content, during the … that have stayed the reform course. (2) The evolution of Bulgaria's total exports in terms of factor intensities before the … conditions for the economy as a whole. (3) Exports of unskilled labor-intensive products continue towering over other exports …
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There has been an explosion in the number of preferential trade agreements in the past decade. Preferential trade agreements are characterized by liberalization with respect to only a few partners and thus they can potentially clash with and retard multilateral trade liberalization. Despite this...
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For a single tariff, the height of the tariff is an unambiguous measure of the policy's restrictiveness. With more than one tariff, theory has not provided an extension that captures the idea of the tariff's height, so analysts have used index numbers such as the mean and the coefficient of...
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