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 …

time in any round of multi-lateral trade negotiations. Voluntary export restraints outside the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA …

shares for its major export products, which, in turn, were of declining relative importance in world trade; and (2) it was …In the mid-1950s sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 3.1 percent of global exports. By 1990 this share had fallen to 1 … world trade. If Africa had merely retained its 1962-64 OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) market …

Exports in the Middle Eastern countries should increase from $800 million to $900 million as a result of the tariff … main Middle Eastern export--which generally faces zero or low tariffs--is unaffected by the Uruguay Round reductions. Egypt …'s projected gains (about $20 million, or under 0.5 percent of total exports) are concentrated largely in agricultural exports to …

imposed under the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) will be phased out over 10 years, and all"voluntary"export restraints will be …. Agreement was also reached on limiting subsidies and other agricultural export incentives. As a result, the profile of OECD … nontariff protection Africa faces will change dramatically. Formerly, about 11 percent of all sub-Saharan Africa exports …

, such as import subsidies, export taxes, state-trading monopolies, and domestic policies that implicitly tax agriculture. …

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 …