Similar Search Results

"How Different Are Safeguards from Antidumping? Evidence from US Trade Policies Toward Steel"

Bown, Chad P. - Econometric Society - 2004

) principle - compare to explicitly discriminatory measures such as antidumping? We address this question empirically by examining … similarity between safeguards and preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Relative to antidumping measures, country and product … could be an even greater concern with a safeguard than with explicitly discriminatory protection such as antidumping. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063705

Trade Disputes Between China and the United States: Growing Pains so Far, Worse Ahead?

Hufbauer, Gary Clyde; Woollacott, Jared C. - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2010

This study covers the history of Sino-US trade relations with a particular focus on the past decade, during which time each has been a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Providing a brief history of 19th and 20th century economic relations, this paper examines in detail the trade...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764772

Chapter 1. The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Bown, C.P.; Crowley, M.A. - In: Handbook of commercial policy : vol 1A-1B, (pp. 3-108). 2016

This chapter surveys empirically the broad features of trade policy in goods for 31 major economies that collectively represented 83% of the world's population and 91% of the world's GDP in 2013. We address five questions: Do some countries have more liberal trading regimes than others? Within...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023444

Missing Tariffs

Teti, Feodora - 2024

This paper reveals significant errors in a key variable in international trade: tariff rates. The issues arise from incomplete reporting, leading to measurement error from false interpolation by the data provider, the World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS), and selection bias from dropping...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015211353

Missing Tariffs

Teti, Feodora - 2023

Many studies use tariffs to measure changes in trade policy. This paper shows that standard sources for tariffs suffer from substantial measurement error due to misreporting and the resulting false imputation: Countries fail to report tariffs every year and missing data are more prevalent for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467830

Mapping the tariff waters

Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - 2009

Tariff water - the difference between bound and applied duties - provides relevant information on domestic trade policy and WTO trade negotiations. This paper examines the general and sectoral tariff structure of 120 economies, using exploratory data analysis.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326736

The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments: Insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs

Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435382

Quantifying the Value of Preferential Trade in Russia and CIS

Taganov, Boris - 2015

In this paper, we assess the value of Russia’s preferential imports from all trade partners and CIS countries in particular. Total value of preferential imports in Russia (both duty free imports as well as imports subject to the discounted MFN duty under GSP) is equal to ca 12% (37.8 USD bln.)...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380548

India - Pakistan Trade

Taneja, Nisha - 2006

Quantitative studies estimate that potential two way trade between India and Pakistan can be about 10 times than its rather unsatisfactory current level of $ 613 million. Moving towards realizing this trade potential is clearly in the interest of both countries and the region. In this context...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807589

Normalizing India Pakistan trade

Taneja, Nisha; Mehra, Mishita; Mukherjee, Prithvijit; … - 2013

With the trade normalization process between India and Pakistan gathering momentum since November 2011, new opportunities for enhancing bilateral trade have opened between the two countries. This study estimates the trade potential between India and Pakistan, and examines how this potential can...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807673