How should economists interpret current trade wars and the recent U.S. trade actions that have initiated them? This … paper offers an interpretation of current U.S. trade actions that is at once more charitable and less forgiving than that … selecting countries with which it runs bilateral trade deficits as the most suitable targets of its bargaining tariffs. Less …

Trade Facilitation (TF), or streamlining regulatory and other procedures involved in the import or export of goods, has … received increasing attention in recent years as governments realize the significant impact inefficient trade procedures can … have on their countries' trade competitiveness. Simplifying trade procedures and making them more transparent has also been …

trade and and financial integration in Asia and the Pacific. It is hoped that it will provide useful insights for both trade …

This study presents a set of assessments of the long term economic effects of Vietnam’s accession to the WTO. Generally … inferior to WTO participation combined with negotiated market access and other activist multilateral agreements. Finally, our …

International trade in agriculture is growing rapidly under the auspices of the WTO. Within agriculture, a recent … contentious issue relates to trade in genetically modified foods and crops. This paper examines a variety of issues associated …

World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally … trade retaliation---such as the WTO---but not under agreements extended to include certain financial instruments. In …Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of both world trade and two thirds of the membership of the …

of the WTO. The role of policy and legislative mechanisms that enable the operation of transatlantic trade were reviewed …This paper presents the main transatlantic trade disputes, explaining the ways in which they were solved with the help … disputes leave their mark on global trade and investment. …

examine the effect of trade liberalization through membership in the GATT/WTO on the incidence of child labour across … statistically significant relationship between openness and child labour and therefore rule out the trade-expanding channel of WTO …Purpose – Trade liberalization could either exacerbate or ameliorate the incidence of child labour. This paper aims to …

environments that encourage cooperation. Specialized international institutions devoted to trade, such as the WTO and preferential …’ choices in trade policy during the current global economic crisis, a situation likely to exacerbate uncertainty in the conduct … of commercial relations and to push countries toward “beggar-thy-neighbor” trade policies. The main argument of the paper …