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North-South Standards Harmonization and International Trade

Disdier, Anne-C??lia; Fontagn??, Lionel; Cadot, Olivier - 2014

Recent years have seen a surge in economic integration agreements (EIAs) and the development of non-tariff measures (NTMs). As a consequence, a growing number of EIAs include provisions on NTMs. However, little attention has been given in the literature to the effects of NTM liberalization in...

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Evaluating the Trade Effect of Developing Regional Trade Agreements : A Semi-parametric Approach

Coulibaly, Souleymane - 2012

successful among them, with an estimated positive impact on its members' imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade … diversion), but its impact on their exports to the rest of the world is rather limited. During its first 10 years of existence …, ECOWAS appears to have had a positive impact on its members' imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade diversion …

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Trade Creation and Trade Diversion in Deep Agreements

Mattoo, Aaditya; Mulabdic, Alen; Ruta, Michele - 2017

Preferential trade agreements have boomed in recent years and extended their reach well beyond tariff reduction, to cover policy areas such as investment, competition, and intellectual property rights. This paper uses new information on the content of preferential trade agreements to examine the...

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Regionalism in Services : A Study of ASEAN

Gootiiz, Batshur; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2015

integrate faster internally than vis-à-vis the rest of the world: policies applied to trade with other ASEAN countries were … virtually the same as those applied to trade with rest of the world. Moreover, the recent commitments scheduled under AFAS did …

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Rules of Origin and the Web of East Asian Free Trade Agreements

Manchin, Miriam; Pelkmans-Balaoing, Edylinda Annette Oreta - 2012

The authors provide an overview of the preferential rules of origin in East Asia, highlighting the aspects that might possibly generate some trade-chilling effects. They review characteristics of existing preferential trade agreements with special emphasis on lessons from the European...

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The Impact of Regional Trade Agreements and Trade Facilitation in the Middle East North Africa Region

Dennis, Allen - 2012

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's trade performance over the past two decades has been disappointing. Efforts to boost trade through a plethora of regional trade agreements (RTAs) are underway. This study examines the potential contribution of regional trade agreements, as well as...

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Regional, Multilateral, and Unilateral Trade Policies on MERCOSUR for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Brazil

Gurgel, Angelo; Harrison, Glenn W.; Rutherford, Thomas F.; … - 2003

and export subsidies results in gains to the world more than four times greater than either the FTAA or the EU …-MERCOSUR agreement. This shows the continued importance to the world trading community of the multilateral negotiations …

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The Cotonou Agreement and its Implications for the Regional Trade Agenda in Eastern and Southern Africa

de la Rocha, Manuel - 2003

Subregional trade arrangements (RTAs) in Eastern and Southern Africa have proliferated in the past 10 to 15 years. The small size of most of the countries in the region, some of which are landlocked, and the security needs in the post independence period largely explain the rapid expansion....

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Integration of Markets vs. Integration by Agreements

Aminian, Nathalie; Fung, Kwok-chiu; Ng, Francis - 2012

This paper provides an analysis of the two channels of regional integration: integration via markets and integration via agreements. Given that East Asia and Latin America are two fertile regions where both forms of integrations have taken place, the authors examine the experiences of these two...

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Transparency, Trade Costs, and Regional Integration in the Asia Pacific

Helble, Matthias; Shepherd, Ben; Wilson, John S. - 2012

The authors show in this paper that increasing the transparency of the trading environment can be an important complement to traditional liberalization of tariff and non-tariff barriers. Our definition of transparency is grounded in a transaction cost analysis. The authors focus on two...

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