In March 2013, the EU and Japan launched negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA). The EU also …. Striking is, however, the outstanding pace of the new trade deals among traditional trading powers. Our paper addresses the … trade relations. It concludes that the recent push for FTAs by the big trading powers is a rapid means of mutual market …

negative shock to the global economy that is comparable with the Great Depression of the 1930s. International trade suffered a … historical collapse in 2009, but trade flows quickly rebounded thereafter. And unlike the Great Depression of the 1930s, the … in many countries’ trade policies during the crisis and, hence, a quite notable increase in the incidence of …

latest and most relevant developments and highlight the prospects for global trade governance. The focus is on three major … regional trade agreements (RTAs) and their wider impact; and (3) the positive results of continued unilateral trade …, despite improved prospects for multilateral trade liberalization following the last WTO Ministerial Conference, the world …

tempering strong upward fluctuations in prices for many major food commodities. Trade policy changes are increasingly discussed … food crises from the perspective of trade policy, specifically export restrictions. After a brief review of the fundamental … restrictions over the recent years. Relying on WTO's trade policy monitoring exercise, it highlights typology, motivations and …

installation' come first in terms of prevalence of bundles of goods and services. Since the trade regime is different for trade in … goods and trade in services, manufacturing firms engaged in servitisation strategies may face higher trade barriers just by … expanding their activities in sectors that are less open to trade. When negotiating trade agreements, policy makers need to take …

trade barriers. The OECD Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (Digital STRI) is a new tool that identifies …, catalogues, and quantifies cross-cutting barriers between 2014 and 2018 that affect trade in digitally-enabled services across … all G20 countries. This index is comprised of a regulatory database of existing trade barriers based on publicly available …

Whether gains from trade are equally distributed within countries is the subject of a lively debate. This paper … presents a novel framework to analyse the distributional effects of trade policy by linking the OECD’s CGE trade model, METRO … investigating research questions concerning the influence of household behaviour changes on trade, as well as trade developments and …