The objective of the research is the evaluation of the competitiveness of Serbia's exports in the agro-food trade with … China, with the aim of deciding on the appropriate export strategy within the 2024 Serbia-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA …). Export competitiveness diagnostics comprises 2018-2022 trade performance indicators (trade flows, export diversification and …

(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted global trade, posing challenges for regional trade agreements …'s impact on trade creation and diversion during the pandemic, exploring how regional cooperation mitigated trade disruptions …-maximum likelihood, and the Heckman selection model, was employed. The gravity model of trade was applied to bilateral trade data from …

The Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) principle has historically been instrumental in promoting stability and equitable trade … conditions. In recent decades there has been a rise in bilateral and regional trade agreements, which deviate from the MFN … circumstances, raise trade barriers against imports for different reasons, including to counter unfair trade practices. Using a …

of IFFs actually stems from trade channels rather than from financial channels. It is particularly concerning that the … flexibility and legitimacy of international trade have been exploited to cover IFFs. Trade mis-invoicing is the largest component … of IFFs from developing countries. A major reason for trade being used to undertake illicit, fraudulent or criminal …

implication on the trade policy of Korea. Findings - As an implementation of economic diplomacy, China suggested the Belt and Road … Initiative (BRI), enhancing trade logistics among related countries to gain competitiveness. In 2023, the Biden administration … suggested the India-Middle East and Europe Economic Corridor as a counter to BRI, which will be a threshold for changing trade …

This study examines two key challenges in services trade research: the reliability of trade data and the measurement of … non-tariff barriers, particularly the Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI). Using firm-level panel data from … explanatory power of the gravity model declines with more detailed microdata. We also find that the STRI's link to trade flows is …