's bilateral trade imbalances with the U.S. Using six cross-sectional panel data from 1981 to 2007, we find strong evidence in … support of the role of Japanese FDI in mounting U.S.-China trade imbalance and in reducing deficit of U.S. trade with Japan …. The results also indicate that the devaluation of Chinese Yuan does not affect its bilateral trade balance with the U …

In March 2018, representatives of member countries of the African Union signed the African Continental Free Trade Area … (AfCFTA) agreement. This agreement provides a framework for trade liberalization in goods and services and is expected to … welfare gains from trade liberalization in Africa. As intra-regional import tariffs in the continent are already low, the bulk …

’s bilateral trade imbalances with the U.S. Using six cross-sectional panel data from 1981 to 2007, we find strong evidence in … support of the role of Japanese FDI in mounting U.S.-China trade imbalance and in reducing deficit of U.S. trade with Japan …. The devaluation of Chinese Yuan does not affect its bilateral trade balance with the U.S. and there are mixed evidence in …

implications, using data from the OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators (TFIs) database and from the OECD-WTO database on trade …-in-value-added. The assessment focusses on the impact of trade facilitation measures in three areas: on the amount of foreign value …-high tech industries. Key words: Customs, global value chains, GVCs, intermediate inputs, trade facilitation, trade flows, trade …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of … about the impacts of globalization on labor markets. -- trade in services ; WTO ; GATS ; trade agreements ; economic …Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by …

common market among ASEAN, China, South Korea, and Japan by establishing a free trade area covering the entire region. As the … of assessing its regional and bilateral measures consistent with the rules of the WTO, in particular, GATT Article XXIV … requirements that raise the problem of the concise interpretation of “substantially all the trade.” East Asian Financial Crisis of …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

Organization (WTO). With the aim of stimulating discussion, this paper asks the question of how trade, and WTO rules, can … contribute to the post-2015 development agenda? In reply, the author offers some thoughts on 10 contributions that trade, and WTO … role that trade will play in this agenda is neither clear, nor agreed. Yet an open, non-discriminatory, rules …

We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive … database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO … membership on trade among member countries is large, positive, and significant. We contribute to the literature by estimating …