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The growth of digital trade is dependant upon greater interconnectivity across borders. Several countries strive to achieve such interconnectivity and integration in digital trade through international trade agreements. Digital trade integration is a complex, multidimensional process that...
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This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
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the region. The APEC 2010 Summit Statement clearly states that the members should pursue a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific … and considers three existing economic agreements - ASEAN+Alpha free trade agreements, the TPP, and the Asia-Pacific Trade …The future creation of a region-wide economic agreement in Asia has become the hot issue among trade policymakers in …
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We develop a novel two-stage methodology that allows us to study the empirical determinants of the ex post effects of past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify 908 unique estimates of the effects of FTAs on different...
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership includes a chapter on regulatory coherence and measures to reduce trade costs arising …
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surveys, on complaints by trading partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) or notifications by companies or countries … sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) against which trading partners issued complaints at the WTO. …
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This paper analyses the new discipline on state-owned enterprises contained in the recently concluded Trans Pacific …
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. With China now having formed 12 FTAs and negotiating five new ones (including a sixteen member Asia-Pacific FTA), the …The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement among 12 Pacific Rim countries whose joint gross … domestic products (GDPs) account for 36 percent of world GDP and whose mutual trade accounts for approximately 24 percent of …
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To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody …
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observers of the trade policy modus operandi of the pre-Lisbon Treaty era. This article reviews the mercantilist 'competitive …
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