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The layers of the IT Agreement's trade impact

Henn, Christian; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik - 2015 - Manuscript date: February 2015

The WTO's plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper … time in trade literatures. Inserting tariffs directly into the gravity equation breaks the ITAs impact down into four …

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Making (small) firms happy : the heterogeneous effect of trade facilitation measures

Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - 2016 - Manuscript date: 02 April 2016

This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilita- tion Indicators (TFIs) released recently by the Organisation for Economic...

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A new look at the extensive trade margin effects of trade facilitation

Beverelli, Cosimo; Neumüller, Simon; Teh, Robert - 2014 - Manuscript date: 13 October 2014

We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on the extensive margins of trade. Using OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators – which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bali WTO Ministerial Conference of December 2013 – we show that trade facilitation in a given...

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Preferential rules of origin in regional trade agreements

Donner Abreu, Maria - 2013 - Manuscript date: March 2013

This study surveys preferential rules of origin applied by 192 regional trade agreements (RTAs) covering trade in goods notified to the GATT/WTO up to 1 November 2010. It takes into account the preferential rules of origin that were notified to the WTO; whenever known and available,...

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Least-developed countries' trade during the "super-cycle" and the great trade collapse : patterns and stylized facts

Escaith, Hubert; Tamenu, Bekele - 2013 - Manuscript date: November 27, 2013

LDCs' trade patterns changed in the past decade, thanks to the rebalancing of global demand towards large emerging countries and the resulting cycle of high international commodity prices. This process led to a wider geographical diversification of LDCs' exports but contributed also to a greater...

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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014

Transitioning from the post-2008 financial meltdown to a sustained period of global growth and prosperity involves a major challenge: how to ensure the effective management of international economic interdependence. Trade, growth, good governance and sustainable development constitute essential...

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Trade policy uncertainty as barrier to trade

Osnago, Alberto; Piermartini, Roberta; Rocha, Nadia - 2015 - Manuscript date: April 2015

commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional agreements) and applied tariffs- what is also known as tariffs … equivalent to a level of tariffs between 1.7 and 8.7 percentage points. …

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Trade Policy Substitution : Theory and Evidence from Specific Trade Concerns

World Trade Organization - 2014

in a given sector is affected by past reductions in applied tariffs. Employing an identification strategy based on “new … measures”, we find evidence of a substitution of non-tariff measures for tariffs both in the sample of TBT and in the sample of …. These results are consistent with our theoretical model, which predicts policy substitution between tariffs and standards in …

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Has the Multilateral Hong Kong Ministerial Decision on Duty Free Quota Free Market Access Provided a Breakthrough in the Least-Developed Countries' Export Performance?

World Trade Organization - 2016

This paper assesses the impact of the 2005 multilateral Hong Kong Ministerial decision on duty free quota free (DFQF) market access for products originating in Least developed countries (LDCs) on the latter's export performance. The analysis is conducted over a sample of 41 LDCs, with data...

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Expect the Unexpected? LDC GATS Commitments as Internationally Credible Policy Indicators? The Example of Mali

World Trade Organization - 2011

There is a stark contrast between the ambitious investment promotion efforts of many least developed countries (LDCs) and their often minimal commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Service (GATS). At a time of urgent need to address domestic infrastructure and investment gaps, this...

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