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Normative Influences of "Special and Differential Treatment" on North-South RTAs

Yanai, Akiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

incorporated into the GATT/WTO legal framework so as to permit the derogation of most-favored-nation (MFN) obligations. … countries, which are known as North-South RTAs. Under the current legal system of the WTO, North-South RTAs are governed by … Article XXIV of the GATT or Article V of the GATS, which means such RTAs must be reciprocal and must cover substantially all …

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Toward an inclusive and a little bit ethical world trading system : listening to the voices of the people in LDCs

Sato, Kan Hiroshi; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

least developed countries (LDCs). Since the inception of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations in 2001, the WTO and …. However, this is inadequate; for the proposed â€˜DDA-MDGs hybridâ€™, a super AfT is needed. The WTO, other development … multilateral agreement, and it has been a core promise since GATT. However, for designing an inclusive system, special and …

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Rethinking special and differential treatment in the WTO

Yanai, Akiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

Special and differential treatment (S&D) allows differentiated treatment for developing countries within the WTO system … by justifying a deviation from the most-favoured-nation obligation. Since it was incorporated into the GATT (the … predecessor of the WTO) in the 1960s, S&D has played a significant role in promoting the integration of developing countries into …

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Features of IP rights enforcement in Korea and China

Nomura, Takashi; Okada, Saori; Yoshizaki, Takeshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This report examines recent updates to the regulation and enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights in Korea and China, in particular patent rights including invention, utility, and design rights. This paper also discusses some features and issues of the actual IP enforcement situation in...

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Border Industry in Myanmar: Turning the Periphery into the Center of Growth

Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

The Myanmar economy has not been deeply integrated into East Asiaâ€™s production and distribution networks, despite its location advantages and notably abundant, reasonably well-educated, cheap labor force. Underdeveloped infrastructure, logistics in particular, and an unfavorable business...

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Rules of Origin and Local Content in East Asia

Kuroiwa, Ikuo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

Rules of Origin (RoO) are an integral part of all trade rules. In order to be eligible for Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) under AFTA and similar arrangements under the ASEAN-China FTA, a product must satisfy the conditions relative to local content. The paper tries to calculate...

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Border Trade and Economic Zones on the North-South Economic Corridor: Focusing on the Connecting Points between the Four Countries

Tsuneishi, Takao - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

The North-South Economic Corridor (NSEC), the road between Bangkok and Kunming, China, including the Laos route (R3B) and the Myanmar route (R3B), has been developed since 1998 following the GMS program. The region covering Yunnan Province in China, Shan State in Myanmar, Northern Laos and...

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Geographical simulation analysis for logistics enhancement in Asia

Kumagai, Satoru; Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Isono, Ikumo; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

This paper presents a simulation of the reduction of several components in trade cost for Asia and examines its impact on the economy. Our simulation model based on the new economic geography embraces seven sectors, including manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors, and 1,715 regions in 18...

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Impacts of common rules of origin on FTA utilization

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper examines empirically the impacts of sharing rules of origin (RoOs) with other ASEAN+1 free trade agreements (FTAs) on ASEAN-Korea FTA/ASEAN-China FTA utilization in Thai exports in 2011. Our careful empirical analysis suggests that the harmonization of RoOs across FTAs play some role...

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Export platform foreign direct investment : theory and evidence

Ito, Tadashi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

This paper proposes a model that accounts for â€œexport platformâ€ FDI â€“ a form of FDI that is common in the data but rarely discussed in the theoretical literature. Unlike the previous literature, this paperâ€™s theory nests all the typical modes of supply, including exports,...

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