Search Results - subject:"generalized System of Preferences"

The Biggest Losers (and Winners) from U.S. Trade Liberalization

Reynolds, Kara M. - 2007

Many development experts worry that continuing reductions of tariff levels in high-income countries will limit trade flows from developing countries that benefit from preferential trade programs because of “preference erosion.” Using a panel of U.S. import data between the years of 1997 and...

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Eastern Caribbean Currency Union; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the income dispersion and comovement in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union region. It finds that incomes are diverging, with the Leeward Islands converging to a higher income level than the Windward Islands. The paper examines the macroeconomic impact of...

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Do the World Trade Organization and the Generalized System of Preferences foster bilateral trade?

Herz, Bernhard; Wagner, Marco - 2007

assigned to international trade agreements like the World Trade Organization or the Generalized System of Preferences as … literature to estimate the role of GATT/WTO and the Generalized System of Preferences for trade. We use a gravity model and apply … bilateral trade flows as well. By contrast, we find that the Generalized System of Preferences does not foster trade in general …

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WTO law and developing countries

Bermann, George A. (ed.); Mavroidis, Petros C. (contributor) - 2007 - 1. publ.

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Do unilateral trade preferences help export diversification? : an investigation of the impact of European unilateral trade preferences on the extensive and intensive margin of trade

Gamberoni, Elisa - 2007

represented by the African Caribbean and Pacific trade preferences. We also confirm that the Generalized System of Preferences …

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Preference erosion: the case of Bangladesh : a SUR-EC-AR gravity model of trade

Grossrieder, Erika Vianna - 2007

This paper analyses the impact of preference erosion on Bangladesh’s clothing industry coming from both the ATC quotas phasing-out and the reduction on MFN tariffs under NAMA negotiations. First, it undertakes a numerical exercise to estimate the effects of tariffs reduction in the US and the...

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European Union trade policy and the poor : towards improving the poverty impact of the GSP in Latin America

Freres, Christian L.; Mold, Andrew - In: EU development policy and poverty reduction : enhancing …, (pp. 33-45). 2007

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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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The legal status of special and differential treatment provisions under the WTO agreements

Kessie, Edwini Kwame - In: WTO law and developing countries, (pp. 12-35). 2007

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Trade preferences to small developing countries and the welfare costs of lost multilateral liberalization

Limão, Nuno; Olarreaga, Marcelo - In: WTO law and developing countries, (pp. 36-58). 2007

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