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Trump's First Trade Deal : The Slightly Revised Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
Lester, Simon; Manak, Inu; Kim, Kyounghwa - 2020
While the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement has received far more attention, a lesser-known U.S. trade deal has also been reworked. In April of 2017, President Trump proclaimed his displeasure with the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (commonly referred to as “KORUS”),...
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A study on the impact of RCEP tariff reduction on Korea's agricultural trade : simulation analysis based on the GTAP model
Song, Jie; Kim, Yeong-Gil - In: Journal of international trade & commerce 18 (2022) 1, pp. 41-57
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From spaghetti bowl to jigsaw puzzle? : addressing the disarray in the world trade system
Menon, Jayant - 2014
The rise of mega-regionals such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Trans … system. But is this even likely? The difficulties of free trade agreement (FTA) consolidation at the regional level are well … are negotiated, reference erosion sets in, reducing the resistance of FTA partners to multilateralization …
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Do trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements matter? : impact on trade costs and multilateral spillovers
Duval, Yann; Neufeld, Nora; Utoktham, Chorthip - 2016
The scope and depth of bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (RTAs) negotiated over the past 15 years has expanded beyond traditional market access and preferential tariffs to include provisions on a wide range of issues, including trade facilitation. This study is a first attempt...
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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014 - Manuscript date: 19 December 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462834
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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462864
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Services trade and policy
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2009
Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...
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Trade Policy Uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria - 2015
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029880
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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014 - Manuscript date: 19 December 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882818
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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