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The Bali Trade Facilitation Agreement and Rulemaking in the WTO : Milestone, Mistake or Mirage?

Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2014

The Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) embodies the first set of new multilateral rules to have been negotiated under auspices of the WTO since the launch of the Doha Development Agenda, part of a small package of decisions centering on matters of interest to developing countries that was...

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Pioneering Multilateralism : The Sugar Agreements 1864 - 1914

Moura F., Heitor P. - 2015

This paper examines the negotiations which led to the Brussels Convention of 1902 for the abolition of subsidies on sugar exports, showing how the practice of multilateral commodity trade negotiations was an outcome of this experience. Encompassing diverse fiscal systems, these negotiations...

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Why are Safeguards Needed in a Trade Agreement?

Crowley, Meredith A. - 2006

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the use of safeguards in a trade agreement. It then analyzes the available data on the use of safeguards by WTO members to examine two hypotheses in the economics literature, that safeguards improve welfare by facilitating tariff...

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Future-proofing world trade in technology : turning the WTO IT Agreement (ITA) into the International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA)

Lee-Makiyama, Hosuk - 2011

Agreement (ITA) in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have so far failed to re-negotiate the coverage of the ITA (concluded in …

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European Union policy towards Free Trade Agreements

Woolcock, Stephen - 2007

The European Union has recently shifted to a trade policy that envisages a greater use of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). In particular the EU is working on a number of new FTA initiatives. Policy statements also reiterate the EU's commitment to multilateralism in trade and to the completion of...

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Regional economic cooperation in the Western Balkans : the role of stabilisation and association agreements, bilateral investment treaties and free trade agreements in regional investment and trade flows

Grieveson, Richard; Holzner, Mario; Vukšić, Goran - 2020

In this report we present the results of our econometric investigation of the role of (1) stabilisation and association agreements (SAAs), (2) bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and (3) free trade agreements (FTAs) in the Western Balkans and their impact on the region's inward foreign direct...

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The Global Financial Crisis and Regional Trade Agreements

Park, Clara - 2019

This article argues that the global financial crisis has weakened institutional support for financial liberalization in regional trade agreements and increased transaction costs in the financial services sector. Due to the lack of cooperation among international economic organizations, regional...

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Chapter 7. The Purpose of Trade Agreements

Grossman, G.M. - In: Handbook of commercial policy : vol 1A-1B, (pp. 379-434). 2016

In this chapter, I review the literature on governments’ motivations for negotiating and joining international trade agreements. I discuss both normative explanations for trade agreements and explanations based on political-economy concerns. Most of the chapter focuses on the purpose of...

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Anatomy of South-South FTAs in Asia : comparisons with Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2012

In understanding the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia since 2000, it is important to distinguish … total of 34 Enabling Clause-based FTAs in effect around the globe, more than half of them are located in Asia. Moreover, the … way the Enabling Clause is used by developing countries in Asia is very different from other regions. Outside of Asia, the …

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Managing the noodle bowl : the fragility of East Asian regionalism

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2007

the smooth functioning of "Factory Asia" - in particular for intraregional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that … created Factory Asia is not subject to WTO discipline (bindings); (iii) there is no "top-level management"; to substitute for … WTO discipline, to ensure that bilateral trade tensions - tensions that are inevitable in East Asia - do not spill over …

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