Whether international economic integration arrangements result in a more liberal trade at the multilateral level cannot … the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment … Partnership are under negotiation. The American policy of creating trade rules for decades to come without the involvement of …

The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no … end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on … the span between the start of trade talks and their conclusion. We use data from 88 regional trade agreements between 1988 …

Rules of origin (RoO) are legitimate policy instruments to prevent trade deflection in a Preferential Trade Agreement … (PTA) short of a customs union. Yet, when captured by special interest groups, RoO can restrict trade beyond what is needed … to prevent trade deflection. By how much do political economy factors account for the stringency of RoO? This study …

Agreement on Trade in Services, are far from fully exploited and provide significant opportunities for governments to improve …

China’s forthcoming accession to the WTO involves reforms across a wide range of sectors in China, both in directly … trade-related sectors and behind the border. The implications of these reforms are greatly influenced by the starting point …

June 23rd 2000. A point of this agreement is regarding a new trade cooperation between these different countries in … intervening in the context of globalisation, the multilateral trade liberalization, the regionalization, the renewal of regional …

Organization (WTO) members to liberalize trade multilaterally, they need to be convinced that there will be sufficient gains from …If South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are to become constructively engaged in the next attempt by World Trade … trade reform to warrant the inevitable costs of negotiation and adjustment. This paper provides new estimates of the likely …

the WTO can act as a credible commitment device. In these circumstances, however, the South’s commitment to free trade …A signalling game involving three parties: a developing country, the WTO and a developed country is outlined. The … developing country might be tempted to renege or deviate from free trade. Although the costs of reneging from free trade result …

This paper discusses the challenges confronting developing countries seeking to use WTO negotiations to promote their … outcome is a significant reduction in barriers to trade in goods and services. This will have a much greater beneficial impact … help to enhance the development-relevance of the WTO. …

With the help of a simple model of production and trade, we examine the differential impact of tariff escalation on … lobbying activity in that country can slow the pace of liberalization of service sector trade. …