With the spread of regional and bilateral trade arrangements, there is always concern about the discriminatory impact on non-members. For example, the establishment of NAFTA deprived the Caribbean Basin of its preferential status vis-a-vis Mexico in the US market. Or alternatively, the...

Trade Policy Reforms and Development, comprises 11 essays offering new contributions on the following topics: globalisation and political economy of trade; trade, labour standards and economic crisis; the changing role of the WTO; competition policy and the WTO; choice of formulas for market access...

In this paper, the authors employ a three-country, two-good, general equilibrium model to analyze bilateral quota wars. It is shown that the presence of a third country or a number of countries that trade freely leads to fundamentally different results of retaliation: bilateral quota wars need...