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Survey on Free Trade Agreements and Customs Unions

Weerth, Carsten - 2009

Trade Agreements (RTAs) relating to the trade in goods, and since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 … of RTAs indicated to the GATT/WTO Secretariat concerning the trade in goods has risen strongly. A World Customs …

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Greening regional trade agreements on investment

Yamaguchi, Shunta - 2020

Many governments are increasingly recognising the need to ensure that trade and investment agreements reflect environmental concerns to help achieve overarching environmental goals and to increase their public acceptability. In particular, investment liberalisation and protection, as well as...

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Regulatory Coherence and the Mega-Regional Trade Agreements : Lessons from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Ciuriak, Dan - 2020

The Trans-Pacific Partnership includes a chapter on regulatory coherence and measures to reduce trade costs arising from divergent standards. We review the substantive content of the TPP's measures in light of existing processes in international organizations addressing good regulatory...

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Paperless trade in regional trade agreements

Duval, Yann; Mengjing, Kong - 2016

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Multilateral and regional cooperation on digital trade rules and agreements in Asia-Pacific

Du, Runqiu; Duval, Yann; Semenova, Maria; Sutthivana, … - 2023

Rules on digital trade are rapidly taking shape as countries in Asia-Pacific and beyond strive to secure the benefits … growing. Asia-Pacific economies are unevenly engaged in cooperation in digital trade rulemaking - East and South-East Asia … economies have welcomed DTPs in their agreements and are taking the lead in developing DEAs, while Central Asia and South Asia …

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Regional Trade Agreements v. The WTO : A Proposal for Reform of Article XXIV to Counter this Institutional Threat

Picker, Colin B. - 2007

This Article, originally presented at a symposium, THE WTO AT A CROSSROADS, in 2004 at the Law Faculty of Bar Ilan University in Israel, provides a proposal that responds to the problems posed by the increasing prevalence of regional trade agreements. The Article argues that RTAs have tended to...

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Mapping the Scope of Dispute Settlement in Regional Trade Agreements : Implications for 21st Century Multilateralism

Froese, Marc D. - 2015

This paper hypothesizes that the inclusion of provisions for the settlement of disputes in regional agreements may ultimately enhance, rather than disrupt, the centrality of the WTO's dispute settlement system. Using a dataset that organizes exclusion clauses and special provisions for dispute...

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Trade Facilitation Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements : Discriminatory or Non-Discriminatory?

Park, Innwon - 2017

are much stronger than the general case covering all RTAs in the world. In addition, as we control the trade effect of a … country's trade facilitation, which is ranked by the World Bank's logistic performance index, RTAs consisting of trade …

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Critique of Impact Assessment of Regional Trade Agreements Using Non-Tariff Measures

Banga, Rashmi - 2017

A recent study undertaken by Kawasaki (2017) uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to estimate the impact of removal tariffs and non-tariff measures on trade flows and the overall gross domestic product (GDP) of the remaining 11 countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP11)...

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Regional Trade Agreements and the Paradox of Dispute Settlement

Froese, Marc D. - 2015

This paper addresses the paradox of trade dispute settlement in which countries allocate resources to the creation of dispute settlement mechanisms in regional trade agreements even as the WTO's system has become the primary forum for the arbitration of state-to-state disputes. I argue that...

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