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Canada: No Place Like Home for Antidumping

Ludema, Rodney D; Mayda, Anna Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We analyze temporary trade barriers (TTB) in Canada in 1989-2009. We find that, despite the retreat in TTB stocks in the last decade, there are signs of a rebound. New AD cases have surged during the crisis, which portends a rise in AD stocks that could last for several years. Thus, the...

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Policy Uncertainty, Trade and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for China and the U.S.

Handley, Kyle; Limão, Nuno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

theory-consistent measure of TPU and estimate that it can explain between 22-30% of Chinese exports to the US after WTO …

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International trade in natural resources: Practice and policy

Ruta, Michele; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to …

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Revenue Tariff Reform

Anderson, James E; Neary, J Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

What kind of tariff reform is likely to raise welfare in situations where tariff revenue is important? Uncertainty about specification and risk from imprecise parameter estimates of any particular specification reduce the credibility of simulation estimates. A promising alternative is to develop...

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Uncertainty and Trade Agreements

Limão, Nuno; Maggi, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In this paper we explore the potential gains that a trade agreement (TA) can provide by regulating trade-policy uncertainty, in addition to the more standard gains from reducing the mean levels of trade barriers. We show that in a standard trade model with income-risk neutrality there tends to...

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Are Trade Blocs Building or Stumbling Blocks? New Evidence

Baldwin, Richard; Seghezza, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The stumbling-block argument asserts that regionalism hinders MFN tariff cutting. If this was of first-order importance over previous decades, we should see a negative relationship between the level of MFN and preferential tariffs, i.e. MFN and PTA tariffs should be substitutes. Using tariff...

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A Customs Union with a Continuum of Products

Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

This paper analyses the customs union problem in a model containing a continuum of products. The continuum is in three dimensions, so that three countries each have a distinct comparative advantage. Trade patterns are endogenously determined, and changed by policy. This is in the tradition of...

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Managing the Noodle Bowl: The Fragility of East Asian Regionalism

Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper argues that East Asian regionalism is fragile since (i) each nation's industrial competitiveness depends on the smooth functioning of 'Factory Asia' - in particular on intra-regional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that created 'Factory Asia' is not subject to WTO discipline...

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Unilateral tariff liberalisation

Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

strives to partly redress this lacuna on the theory side by introducing three novel political economy mechanisms with …

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Antitrust-based Remedies and Dumping in International Trade

Hoekman, Bernard; Mavroidis, Petros C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

and disciplines in the context of unfair trade allegations before turning to `standard' antidumping remedies. The premise … of proponents of antidumping action is that the existence of market power in an exporter's home markets, or potential … situations is not investigated by antidumping authorities, however. A proposal is made that allegations of dumping first be …

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