When impacts of WTO market access proposals are analyzed with economic trade models, it is necessary to aggregate … tariff cuts are aggregated from the HS6-digit tariff line level with the simple and trade weighted average, the Trade … Restrictiveness Index (TRI) and the Mercantilist Trade Restrictiveness Index (MTRI) by considering bound and applied tariff rates. The …

reveal that the magnitude of India’s trade potential is at its maximum in the Asia-Pacific region, followed by Africa and …This study estimates the trade potential for India using an augmented Gravity model and then attempts to determine the … importance of trade remedies. Based on the panel data, this Gravity model is the first-ever attempt to estimate India’s trade …

), goods that require high R&D expenditures, and labour-intensive products such as clothing. Multilateral trade liberalization … market shares for some of these products among developing countries. Projections based on a standard trade model suggest that … moving to full trade liberalization would lead to an increase in the share of agricultural products in total world trade by …

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of the integration of Maghreb countries into a free trade area on … estimate the gains or the potential losses of various plans of trade integration (Free trade area for the Maghreb countries … trade in goods (and removing various regulatory non-tariff barriers in the process) could reach at least USD 350 million …

This paper shows a new exposition of the Trade Diversion Effect when Free Trade Agreements are created. Hub and spoke … type of trade networks cause systemic overproduction, and member countries exit from the markets, whereas perfectly … pursuing Free Trade Agreements with various countries, but accumulation of bilateral negotiations may cause Trade Diversion …

. Our simulations show that the various modalities of trade liberalization may have different impacts on the welfare, the … rate of growth and the sectoral trade balance of these two countries. More precisely, our findings justify the interest of … a gradual and asymmetrical agreement. In addition, the free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and Morocco will have a …

If South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are to become constructively engaged in the next attempt by World Trade … Organization (WTO) members to liberalize trade multilaterally, they need to be convinced that there will be sufficient gains from … trade reform to warrant the inevitable costs of negotiation and adjustment. This paper provides new estimates of the likely …

integrated with East Asia, but Europe is not. This paper explores the extent to which economic growth and trade poli - cy … phaseout of textile quotas, and APEC trade liberalization. The bilateral trade conse - quences in those scenarios highlight the …, and even APEC trade reform does not reduce Europe’s projected trade with East Asia. …