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Schüle, Ulrich; Kleisinger, Tatiana - 2016

The "Spaghetti Bowl" (or "Noodle Bowl") phenomenon describes the trade-distorting effects caused by the multitude of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) signed in the last three decades. As RTAs allow for a different treatment of imports from different countries, rules defining a product's country...

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Standardization of complex and diversified preferential rules of origin

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Harmonization of rules of origin : an agenda for plurilateral cooperation?

Hoekman, Bernard M.; Inama, Stefano - In: East Asian economic review 22 (2018) 1, pp. 3-28

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Preferential rules of origin in regional trade agreements

Donner Abreu, Maria - 2013 - Manuscript date: March 2013

This study surveys preferential rules of origin applied by 192 regional trade agreements (RTAs) covering trade in goods notified to the GATT/WTO up to 1 November 2010. It takes into account the preferential rules of origin that were notified to the WTO; whenever known and available,...

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The Role of Rules of Origin to Provide Discipline to the GATT Article XXIV

Kim, Joongi - 2012

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Preferential Rules of Origin in Regional Trade Agreements

Donner Abreu, Maria - 2013

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Preferential rules of origin in regional trade agreements

Donner Abreu, Maria - In: Regional trade agreements and the multilateral trading …, (pp. 58-110). 2016

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Boosting trade through flexible rules of origin in preferential agreements

De Melo, Jaime; Gourdon, Julien; Gourdon, Karin - 2024

Rules of origin are critical components of preferential trade agreements designed to stop products coming in under insufficient transformation or through the partner that applies the lowest tariff. But in practice, these rules are often needlessly complex, undoing the benefits of market access...

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Harmonizing Preferential Rules of Origin in the WTO System

Barcelo, John James - 2006

countries)) are emerging everywhere in the world trading system and are causing concern because they discriminate against non …

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US international trade and the global economic crisis

James, William E. - 2009

World trade volume is in retreat for the first time in more than two decades and the contraction is on a scale not seen … trade with the rest of the world. Moreover, US imports that avail of preferential tariff treatment are also contracting more … to strangle world trade. The failure of bilateral free trade agreements to act as a shock absorber suggests that a new …

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