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Developing countries have been characterized as having played an essentially defensive role in the GATT, unwilling to make tariff concessions, and have focused almost exclusively on securing Special and Differential Treatment concessions. These three perspectives have become part of the...
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entered sports retail. Sports goods manufacturing is a focus area in the Foreign Trade Policy (2009-2014) and the government …
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The complex interaction between trade and politics is analysed for the JapanChina relationship using Granger causality … tests. The purpose is to determine the presence and direction of causation between trade and political events, both positive … and negative, and to gauge an idea of the lag length of causality. Trade is growing quickly between Japan and China …
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India has been witnessing a sharp rise in merchandise trade and showing greater trade interdependence on a large … Indias trade. Costlier transportation prohibits trade in India and taxes the trade in the way tariff does. This paper … provides sufficient evidence to ascertain that variations in ad-valorem transportation costs strongly influence trade flows in …
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Recent Melitz-type (2003) intra-industry heterogonous trade models argue that a firm's productivity has significant …
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Thailandan outward-oriented regional production hubis one of East Asia's most active users of free trade agreements … negotiation or proposed. Thai trade negotiators have striven to secure market access via FTAs, but little is known on how FTAs … regional trade agreements. The study concludes with specific recommendations to improve business awareness of FTAs, encourage …
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dynamics of cross border trade and investment in South Asia, exploring the potential for, and obstacles to, such trade through …
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largest in FDI inflow, the third largest in foreign trade, the fourth largest in GDP, and an important engine for the global … the two largest markets. East Asia accounts for half of Chinas foreign trade and more than 70% of FDI inflow. Chinas trade … with South Asia is still small in volume, but high in growth rate. With the emergence of the Indian economy, trade and …
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This paper uses dynamic shift-share analysis to examine the export performance of China in electronics compared to the east Asian NIEs exporting to the USA, European Union and Japan between 1988 and 2001. Our findings suggest that China has now emerged as a serious contender in the export market...
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