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China's Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements

Li, Chunding - 2014

. Those in prospect are with major trading areas (US, Japan, Korea, and India). All are driven in part by China's needs for …

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Antebellum Tariff Politics : Coalition Formation and Shifting Regional Interests

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2006

Throughout U.S. history, import tariffs have been put on a sustained downward path in only two instances: from the early-1830s until the Civil War and from the mid-1930s to the present. This paper analyzes how the movement toward higher tariffs in the 1820s was reversed for the rest of the...

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Regionalism and Multilateral Tariff Cooperation

Bagwell, Kyle - 1997

We consider a 3 country world in which each country's import market is served by competing exporters from its 2 trading partners. We assume that weak multilateral enforcement mechanisms prevent governments from implementing efficient trade policies through a multilateral agreement requiring...

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The New Regionalism : Trade Liberalization or Insurance?

Perroni, Carlo - 1994

Several of the recently negotiated regional trade agreements (Canada-U.S., NAFTA, E.C.-Hungary/Poland/Czeck and Slovak Republics) contain significantly fewer concessions by the large countries to smaller countries than vice versa. Yet, it is small countries that have sought them and see...

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China's New Regional Trade Agreements

Antkiewicz, Agata - 2004

This paper discusses the recent regional trade agreements that China has concluded rapidly following accession to the WTO in 2002. Agreements are in place with Hong Kong, Macao, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand, and are either in negotiation or under discussion with South Africa, Chile, India,...

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Spaghetti Regionalism or Strategic Foreign Trade : Some Evidence for Mexico

Ibarra-Yunez, Alejandro - 2003

continues to negotiate with countries such as Japan, Panama, Uruguay or Argentina. Criticism of multiple regional trade …

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Is Japan Creating a Yen Bloc in East Asia and the Pacific?

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1992

This paper reaches seven conclusions regarding the Yen Bloc that Japan is reputed to be forming in Pacific Asia. (1 … is no evidence of a special Japan effect. (3) Once one properly accounts for rapid growth in Asia, the statistics do not … Asian countries, though overall its influence is as yet no greater than that of New York. (6) Some of Japan's financial and …

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Gains and Losses from Potential Bilateral US-China Trade Retaliation

Dong, Yan - 2011

high, gains accrue to the EU and Japan from trade diversion if the substitutions elasticities of imports are high. Costs … regions, the US, China, EU, Japan and Rest of the World, and calibrated to a global 2009 micro consistent data set. The other … debated. In a US-China trade conflict, Europe and Japan would seem gainers from preferential access to US and Chinese markets …

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Can Subsidies for MARs be Procompetitive?

Krishna, Kala - 2000

In contrast to recent literature, we show that market access requirements (MARs) can be implemented in a procompetitive manner even in the absence of threats in related markets. By focusing on subsidies that are paid only when the requirement is met, we show that a MAR can increase aggregate...

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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the US-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute

Krishna, Kala - 1996

Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...

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