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Investment and Competition Policy in Developing Countries: Implications of and for the WTO
This paper evaluates the impact on developing countries of the prohibition of Trade Related Investment Measures (TRIMs). The economic impact of implementing the TRIMs Agreement...
Company: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Date: March 2000 |
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
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GATT Experience With Safeguards: Making Economic And Political Sense Of The Possibilities That The GATT Allows To Restrict Imports
This paper examines tariff and non-tariff policies that restrict trade between countries in agricultural commodities. Many of these policies are now subject to important disciplines...
Company: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Date: January 2003 |
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
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Trade And Development In The GATT And WTO: The Role Of Special And Differential Treatment For Developing Countries
The paper analyses how the evolution of thinking regarding the role trade plays in economic development has been reflected in provisions affecting developing countries in...
Company: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Date: April 2000 |
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
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Should The Teeth Be Pulled? A Preliminary Assessment Of WTO Sanctions
Although often described as one of the most important features of the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system, the possibility of authorizing a trade...
Company: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Date: September 2000 |
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
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Democracy, Consultation, And The Paneling Of Disputes Under GATT
States have long sought to have their conflicts adjudicated by institutions. Often dismissed as a quasi-judicial system held together by countless loopholes, General Agreement on...
Company: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Date: January 2003 |
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
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Aggressive Multilateralism: The Determinants Of GATT/WTO Dispute Initiation, 1948-1998
Why do states initiate trade disputes under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) or its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO)? Existing studies...
Company: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Date: February 2000 |
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
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The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly But Unevenly
This paper furnishes robust evidence that the GATT/WTO has had a powerful and positive impact on trade. The impact has, however, been uneven. GATT/WTO membership...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: September 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Shaping Future GATS Rules For Trade In Services
The GATS is justifiably credited with having created a more secure environment for trade in services. However, even though it has put in place a...
Company: World Bank Group
Date: January 2003 |
World Bank Group |
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The FSC Case: Background and Implications
This paper includes the background and implications of Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC). It explains how enacted FSC was enacted and what were the clauses of...
Company: Institute for International Economics
Date: February 2002 |
Institute for International Economics |
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Battling The Property Pirates
From the executive summary: ‘In much of the developed world, to be sure, patent protection just about matches that in the U.S. However, some important...
Company: CFO Publishing
Date: January 2004 |
CFO Publishing |
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International Trade in Services: Implications for the IMF
This paper reviews the characteristics of international trade in services and of the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) framework, which...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: December 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Market Structure, Trade Liberalization and the GATS
This paper examines the interaction between the different modes of market access commitments in services (cross-border and establishment) market structure, and regulation. The paper focuses...
Company: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Date: June 2000 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
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Enforcement, Private Political Pressure and the GATT/WTO Escape Clause
The report considers the design and implementation of international trade agreements when: negotiations are undertaken and commitments made in the presence of uncertainty about future...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: December 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Does Sales-Only Apportionment of Corporate Income Violate the GATT?
There has been a pronounced change in the formulas states use to apportion the income of multistate corporations from one that placed equal weight on...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: July 2002 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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GATT-Think
This paper describes recent work on the theory of trade agreements that speaks to the purpose and design of GATT. The discussion proceeds in three...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: November 2000 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Time Inconsistency of Trade Policy and Multilateralism
This paper addresses the issue of multilateralism versus bilateralism in a situation where a home government's optimal policy is time-inconsistent and the time-consistent policy sub-optimal....
Company: Columbia University
Date: June 2003 |
Columbia University |
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Do WTO Members Have More Liberal Trade Policy?
This paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: November 2002 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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The GATT and Gradualism
This paper shows how the institutional rules imposed on its signatories by the GATT created a strategic incentive for countries to liberalize gradually. Free trade...
Company: University of Warwick
Date: February 2004 |
University of Warwick |
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Welfare Implications of Regionalism in the GATT
This paper investigates the welfare implications of an existence of a free trade agreement (FTA) and a customs union (CU) within the GATT. Two types...
Company: National University of Singapore
Date: November 2001 |
National University of Singapore |
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Free Trade or Fair Trade? An Enquiry into the Causes of Failure in Recent Trade Negotiations
Focusing on frictions between developing countries and industrial economies in the particular area of trade in manufactured goods, the purpose of this paper is to...
Company: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Date: December 2000 |
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
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Trade, Growth and the Environment
For the last ten years environmentalists and the trade policy community have engaged in a heated debate over the environmental consequences of liberalized trade. The...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: July 2003 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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"GATT-Think" With Asymmetric Countries
The paper argues that, in the presence of asymmetric countries, a trade agreement that conforms to GATT's reciprocity rule allows the (stronger) less trade dependent...
Company: Bocconi University
Date: March 2003 |
Bocconi University |
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Origins of the GATT: British Resistance to American Multilateralism
Fiftieth-anniversary explanations for the efficacy of the GATT imply that the institution's longevity is testimony to the free trade principles upon which it is based....
Company: University of Cambridge
Date: January 2001 |
University of Cambridge |
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On the Economic Success of GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement
What features of the dispute settlement process help governments live up to their trade liberalization commitments? Exploiting data on GATT/WTO trade disputes initiated and completed...
Company: Brandeis University
Date: January 2003 |
Brandeis University |
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Transatlantic Trade Conflicts and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement
The paper surveys key dispute settlement reforms ushered in by the WTO, and elaborates how these likely influence US-EC disputes. This paper reports new data...
Company: University of California, Berkeley
Date: May 2002 |
University of California, Berkeley |
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Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Bilateral Opportunism and the Rules of GATT/WTO
Trade negotiations occur through time and between the governments of many countries. An important issue is thus whether the value of concessions that a government...
Company: University of Wisconsin
Date: November 2001 |
University of Wisconsin |
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Transatlantic Trade Conflicts and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement
The paper is in four sections. The first section surveys key dispute settlement reforms ushered in by the WTO, and elaborates how these likely influence...
Company: Emory University
Date: June 2002 |
Emory University |
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Welfare Implications of Regionalism in the GATT: The Presence of Foreign Ownership
This paper examines the welfare implications of an existence of free trade agreements (FTAs) and customs unions (CUs) in the GATT system, in the presence...
Company: National University of Singapore
Date: November 2001 |
National University of Singapore |
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GATT and the New Protectionism
The successful completion of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has generated much optimism about the future of world...
Company: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Date: August 2004 |
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
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Subsidy Agreements
This paper provides a first formal analysis of the international rules that govern the use of subsidies to domestic production (as distinct from export subsidies)....
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: February 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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TRIPs and the Global Pharmaceutical Market
This paper reviews the international controversy over patents and access to drugs in developing countries and explores the implications of the 1995 Trade-Related Aspects of...
Company: Project HOPE
Date: June 2004 |
Project HOPE |
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The General Agreement on Trade in Services: Implications for Health Policymakers
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), created under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, aims to regulate measures affecting international trade in...
Company: Project HOPE
Date: June 2004 |
Project HOPE |
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Developing Countries in GATT/WTO Negotiations
The growing role of developing countries in the WTO negotiations since the Tokyo Round suggests that the most power-based or pessimistic views of the international...
Company: Overseas Development Institute
Date: October 2001 |
Overseas Development Institute |
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Xayrawak - GATT Uruguay Round - Liberalization of Telecom Services
This paper presents a case study of multilateral trade negotiations for trade liberalization of a service. This service as originally conceived, was in the basic...
Company: International Trade Centre
Date: May 2002 |
International Trade Centre |
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Developing Countries as Plaintiffs and Defendants in GATT/WTO Trade Disputes
Developing countries have been increasing their participation in the formal institutions and proceedings of the multilateral trading system. A prominent example is their more frequent...
Company: Brandeis University
Date: June 2003 |
Brandeis University |
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Economic Theory and the Interpretation of GATT/WTO
Over the past 50 years, a remarkable degree of trade liberalization has been achieved through GATT/WTO negotiations. This paper describes work that provides a theoretical...
Company: Columbia University
Date: August 2003 |
Columbia University |
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GATT and Its Effects on Shipping and Ports
The title of this paper is more ambitious than what its contents justify. The agreement signed in Marrakesh in April 1994 consists of twenty thousand...
Company: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Date: January 2005 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
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Endogenous Protection, Trade Negotiations, and the GATT
Models of tariff formation commonly explain the average tariff as a function of domestic level macroeconomic and political variables. Absent from these models are the...
Company: The Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Date: February 2001 |
The Maxwell School of Syracuse University |
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Trade in Health Services
The objective of the study presented in this paper is to provide an overview of the nature of international trade in health services and the...
Company: Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
Date: June 2001 |
Commission on Macroeconomics and Health |
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NAFTA, GATT, and the Current Free Trade System: A Dangerous Double Standard for Worker's Rights
The single clearest most direct result of economic globalization to date is a massive global transfer of economic and political power away from national governments...
Company: University of Denver
Date: August 2003 |
University of Denver |
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