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Economic activity at the state level varies greatly across U.S. regions, with different states specializing in the production of particular goods and services. This heterogeneity in activity informs the geographic distribution of U.S. imports and exports. Using U.S. Census Bureau foreign trade...
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In this paper we investigate whether multilateral trade liberalisation undermines or encourages preferential trade liberalisation. We use highly disaggregated data at the tariff-line level and find an 'emulator effect' of multilateral trade liberalisation on preferential trade agreements....
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The withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in early 2017 led the remaining 11 countries in that trade and investment agreement to explore alternative ways to sustain economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region. This Working Paper shows that, without the...
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is strategically significant because of its size, dynamism, and role in the Asian economic and security architectures. This paper examines how ASEAN seeks to strengthen these assets through “centrality” in intraregional and external policy...
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application of intra-regional, and sometimes extra-regional, antidumping actions. This study focuses on intra-regional antidumping … regimes and has been built around the analysis of antidumping provisions in 192 RTAs. This Working Paper first recalls the … RTAs, the Paper identifies two Categories of regional antidumping regimes, and assesses their relationships with the …
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preferential tariffs. The methodology takes into account trade remedies, including anti-dumping and countervailing duties …
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application of intra-regional, and sometimes extra-regional, antidumping actions. This study focuses on intra-regional antidumping … regimes and has been built around the analysis of antidumping provisions in 192 RTAs. This Working Paper first recalls the … RTAs, the Paper identifies two Categories of regional antidumping regimes, and assesses their relationships with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009658769
In making RTAs, WTO members need to justify its legal problem of MFN violation. Although the Enabling Clause provides important flexibility for the justification, RTAs concluded only among WTO member developing countries may claim this flexibility under the clause. As a consequence, any WTO...
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We nest an extended two-way fixed effect (ETWFE) estimator for staggered difference-in-differences within the structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest that RTA estimates in the current gravity literature may be...
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The present study investigates the effect of regional and bilateral trade agreements supported by institutional framework on bilateral trade between India and selected South and Central Asian countries. The augmented gravity model that corrects for zero trade, endogeneity and heterogeneity is...
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