Munich Personal RePEc Archive
Rules of Origin and Sensitive List under
SAFTA and Bilateral FTAs among South
Asian Countries: Quantitative
Assessments of Potential Implications for
Nepal
Raihan, Selim
South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM),
Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka , Bangladesh
July 2008
Online at
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37893/
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