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This article analyzes European Union-China trade relations in the context of the current negotiations for a new comprehensive framework agreement between the European Union (EU) and the People’s Republic of China. China is a strong economic power with increasingly sophisticated production in...
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In her paper, Sylvia Ostry argues that if China had joined the GATT, the negotiations would have been far easier since market access under GATT was mainly about border barriers. But since the Uruguay Round the concept of market access has been extended to include not only domestic regulatory...
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On 5 September 2011, the WTO issued the Appellate Body report for the first WTO case on a transitional product-specific safeguard measure, United States – Measures Affecting Imports of Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tyres from China (U.S. − Tyres). Transitional product-specific...
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The paper reviews the cost and benefits of globalization (i.e. greater integration of national and global economies) from the perspective of India. It argues that India's hesitant and reluctant globalization had a significant cost in terms of forgone growth, delay in the eradication of poverty...
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We formalize the GATT/WTO principle of reciprocity in workhorse quantitative trade models, characterizing reciprocal tariff cuts that hold terms of trade fixed and investigating their labor-market impacts. We provide closed-form expressions mapping reciprocal tariff cuts to labor market...
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China joined the World Trade Organization (‘WTO’) in 2001 after almost 15 years of negotiations, making extensive commitments to open its markets to foreign investment and liberalise trade in goods and services. China represents a huge potential market for foreign telecommunications service...
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As revealed by the trade intensity indices, India and the People's Republic of China have significant bilateral trade potential, which remains unexplored until now. These countries are presently negotiating for free trade arrangements among them based on their complementarities. This paper makes...
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This study examines the bilateral trade relations between New Zealand and China from 1980 to 2012. It examines the strength of the trade relationship using export and import intensity indices; identifies the degree of trade reciprocity using a 'trade reciprocity index'; estimates the magnitude...
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The economic and the military developments that have characterized the Chinese economy in recent decades have caused Beijing to take steps to ensure the provision of strategic resources necessary for the continued economic growth and consolidation of China`s position and prestige in Central Asia...
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New Regionalism differs markedly from previous development of regional integration. These changes are connected mainly … to the necessity of regionalism to react to changing global conditions, new world political order and entrance of new … scale, i.e. China). This applies also for the transforming countries, at which the regionalism can be observed as late as in …
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