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Bosnia Herzegovina (BH) is in the process of joining the World Trade Organization in the near future and the European … trade model is used to estimate the potentially negative impacts of accession on production and trade in several specific …
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countries in the framework of imperfectly competitive markets with the focus on the global and inter-American peanut trade. This … effects, in particular increase the incentives to overuse certain trade policies. The results suggest that the South American … of a tariff may still be mutually welfare enhancing. In the broader context of global peanut trade, multi-lateral tariff …
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This paper presents promising methodologies for modeling and quantifying nontariff barriers (NTB) to trade in the … on trade and to methods that provide some quantitative estimates of the impact of such barriers on market equilibrium …, trade flows, economic efficiency, and welfare. Given the heterogeneous nature of these regulations, a unifying methodology …
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statistics on domestic production, trade, consumption, and storage of cereals reveals that the improvement in Russia’s net trade … trade costs after the devaluation of the Russian rouble in 1998 seem to have contributed to these developments. A computable … trade regime would also be positive for the domestic farm sector. …
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Trade negotiators are concerned about the possible negative effects of trade liberalisation on employment in specific … sector adjust to trade shocks. In this application, a global computable general equilibrium model is used to determine trade … employment effects of trade shocks are quite small, with the possible exception of the highly protected sugar sector …
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Anger and optimism are coexisting themes related to the growing liberalization of international trade and the resultant … transforming forces of globalization. While international trade and globalization offer the world community many benefits, there … also appear to be negative consequences, particularly for least developed countries (LDCs). With increased trade and …
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Trade in processed food products is rapidly growing. Trade with Canada and Mexico has especially been growing since … free trade agreements have been implemented. The U.S. presence in the processed food industry in other countries through … foreign direct investment (FDI) is also large and has been expanding. The relationship between trade and FDI is uncertain and …
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assess the impact of international rice trade policies onthe patterns of production, consumption, trade, and prices, from an …, namely, (1) trade policy groups, and (2) countries, toobtain a better idea of the partial effect of policies and or countries …, itcan contribute to an improved understanding of trade policy for regional and global rice supply and,thus, for improved …
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This paper examines the regulation of trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by the World Trade Organization … the WTO on these regulations, a trade dispute over GMOs is likely to occur before too long. Exporting countries will … for health reasons, whether labels constitute the "least trade distorting" way of meeting legitimate objectives, and …
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The objective of this study is to determine the impact of (1) the new 1984 maritime boundary between the United States and Canada in the Northwest Atlantic and (2) the availability of the Brooklyn, New York, port as an alternative landing site on the distribution of domestic and imported...
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