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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks

Chen, Tain-Jy; Liu, Meng-chun - 2021

This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the … negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market opening with the threat of unilateral trade sanctions (such as Section 301 … areas where U.S. domestic interests are homogeneous and concentrated. Even in the case of tariff negotiations where any …

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Trade Wars : What Do They Mean? Why are They Happening Now? What are the Costs?

Mattoo, Aaditya - 2019

How should economists interpret current trade wars and the recent U.S. trade actions that have initiated them? In this paper we offer an interpretation of current U.S. trade actions that is at once more charitable and less forgiving than that typically offered by economic commentators. More...

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The Purpose of Trade Agreements

Grossman, Gene M. - 2016

This paper reviews the literature on governments' motivations for negotiating and joining international trade agreements. I discuss both normative explanations for trade agreements and explanations based on political-economy concerns. Most of the paper focuses on the purpose of multilateral...

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The Politics of Free Trade Agreements

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2022

Suppose that an opportunity arises for two countries to negotiate a free trade agreement (FTA). Will an FTA between these countries be politically viable? And if so, what form will it take? We address these questions using a political-economy framework that emphasizes the interaction between...

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Trade Diversion and Trade Deficits : The Case of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Russ, Katheryn Niles - 2019

We study whether tariff preferences conferred on South Korean goods through the implementation of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) drew U.S. import demand away from other U.S. trading partners through the phenomenon known as trade diversion. In the two years following the...

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Wage Effects of a U.S. - Mexican Free Trade Agreement

Leamer, Edward E. - 2021

This paper analyzes the extent to which education will be subsidized when the subsidy rate is determined by majority voting. The analysis takes place in a framework where education is a discrete decision and all individuals would like to obtain an education because of its effect on future...

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Why Do Countries Seek Regional Trade Agreements?

Whalley, John - 2021

This paper emphasizes the range of factors which enter country calculations to seek regional trading arrangements. These include conventional access benefits, but extend to safe haven concerns, the use of trade arrangements to underpin security arrangements, and tactical interplay between...

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Are Free Trade Agreements Contagious?

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2010

This paper presents a new model of the domino effect which is used to generate an empirical index of how "contagious" FTAs are with respect to third nations. We test our contagion hypothesis together with alternative specifications of interdependence and other political, economical and...

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The Long and Short of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Trefler, Daniel - 2021

The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) provides a unique window on the effects of trade liberalization. It was an unusually clean trade policy exercise in that it was not bundled into a larger package of macroeconomic or market reforms. This paper uses the 1989-96 Canadian FTA experience to...

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Negotiating Free Trade

Aghion, Philippe; Antràs, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - 2022

We develop a dynamic bargaining model in which a leading country endogenously decides whether to sequentially negotiate free trade agreements with subsets of countries or engage in simultaneous multilateral bargaining with all countries at once. We show how the structure of coalition...

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