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Non-tariff Measures and India’s Agricultural Exports: The Case of India-ASEAN Trade Agreement
The protection accorded to agricultural trade continues to be a contentious issue in the multilateral trade negotiations across the globe. The...
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Beyond tariff evasion: bypass effect of FTAs to circumvent technical barriers
Can free trade agreements (FTAs) evade technical barriers to trade (TBT)? Based on the FTAs and TBT notification of the United States, this paper...
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The importance of deep integration in preferential trade agreements: the case of a successfully implemented Ukraine–Turkey free trade agreement
We construct a 45-sector model of Ukraine with Turkey and seven other regions to estimate the impacts on Ukraine of effectively implementing the deep...
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Labour Market Effects of Non-tariff Measures: A Computable General Equilibrium for the Food Processing Sector in Malaysia
Non-tariff measures (NTMs) affect the labour market indirectly through trade. However, much ambiguity surrounds the labour market effects of NTMs, as...
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Export Pessimism and the Neoclassical Revival
In the 1950s and 1960s, develo** countries raised concerns about the challenges they faced in international trade. In their view, sustainable...
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Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa—COMESA
This chapter addresses the Preferential Trade Area (PTA) and its successor REC, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), which was...
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Trade protection and the role of non-tariff barriers
A growing share of modern trade policy instruments is shaped by non-tariff barriers (NTBs). Based on a structural gravity equation and the recently...
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From Local to Global: International Trade and Value Chains
This chapter shows how local and national food systems are interconnected through trade, storage and processing, forming a global system that links...
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Liberalization and Protectionism
Each country establishes a balance between the economic development.
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The effects of the EU-MERCOSUR agreement on bilateral trade: the role of Brexit
The Mercosur and EU countries have a trade affinity due to similarities in consumer preferences (cultural and religious values and common consumption...
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The trade effects of product market regulation in global value chains: evidence from OECD and BRICS countries between 2000 and 2015
Global Value Chains (GVC) have reshaped the landscape of international trade. The quality and intensity of regulation significantly impacts firms'...
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On the new gold standard in EU trade integration: reviewing the EU-Japan EPA
In 2011 the European Union’s free trade agreement with South Korea was considered its most ambitious agreement with any Asian economy. In 2019,...
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Wealth Generation, Taxes, Customs, Trade and Logistics
This chapter explains the wealth creation process. It discusses Georgia’s tax liberalization reforms and political and economic factors which allowed...
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Trade Imbalances, Fiscal Imbalances and the Rise of Protectionism: Evidence from G20 Countries
We investigate the role of trade imbalances in the rise of protectionism on the period 2009–2020 among G20 countries. Bilateral trade imbalances are...
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New Evidence on WTO Membership After the Uruguay Round: An Analysis at the Sectoral Level
The creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995 brought several changes to the world trade system, including more stringent accession...
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Interaction of the Russian Far East and Asia-Pacific Countries: Assessment of Institutional and Tariff Barriers to Trade
AbstractDue to the considerable distances from the major sales markets of Russia, the Far East has close ties with markets of the countries in the...
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Integration and Industrial Cooperation
Based on an analysis of different forms of economic integration, this chapter clarifies the levels of regional economic integration and identifies...
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Multilateral Trading System and Global Trade Regulation
This chapter focuses on the evolution, modern trends, and challenges facing the multilateral trading system. This is a complex set of basic...
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Technical regulations and exporters’ dynamics: evidence from develo** countries
This paper estimates the relation between technical regulations and firms’ export dynamics using country-sector indicators from two firm-level...
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An Empirical Analysis of Reform and Efficiency in China’s Electricity Sector
This chapter reviews the history of electricity market reforms and the evolution of electricity pricing mechanism and examines the effect of reforms...