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Effects of Regional Trade Agreements on Strategic Agricultural Trade in Africa and Its Implications to Food Security: Evidence from Gravity Model Estimation
... on regional trade agreements mainly deal with trade in manufacturing ...agricultural trade are ...agricultural trade use descriptive statis- tical methods, which may not be ...
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Regional Trade Agreements (RTAS): A Controversial Issue
... from trade suggests that reduction/elimination of trade barriers between or among countries allows consumers and producers to purchase from the cheapest and most competitive source of ...that ...
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Compensating Lost Revenue in Regional Trade Agreements
... most regional trade agreements do not foresee or implement provisions for revenue sharing or revenue loss ...from regional partners but must cope with the revenue shortfalls domestically ...
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Regional Trade Agreements: India’s Initiatives
... in regional trade agreements (RTAs) due to slow progress of WTO trade negotiations and increasing dominance/discrimination towards developing/less developed countries (LDCs) by developed ...
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Development and Regional Trade Agreements: Entrenching Structural Inequities
... on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) to allow countries to export generic medicines produced under a compulsory license to the least developed countries finally came into ...
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Disentangling regional trade agreements, trade flows and tobacco affordability in sub-Saharan Africa
... liberalization, regional trade agreements, tobacco trade and cigarette price and affordability in sub-Saharan Af- ...economic agreements appear to shape the patterns of tobacco ...
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The paradox of “preferences”: regional trade agreements and trade costs in services
... negotiating regional trade agreements (RTAs), 1 not all of them based on economic considerations (WTO, ...reducing trade barriers among themselves. Preambles of trade agreements ...
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Regional Trade Agreements in East Asia: Will They Be Sustainable?
... achieve regional economic cooperation has been very aggressive resulting in a proliferation of regionalism in East ...negotiating regional trade agreements (RTAs), mostly the result of the ...
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Critique of Impact Assessment of Regional Trade Agreements using Non Tariff Measures
... on trade flows as well as on overall gross domestic product (GDP) of a ...of Regional Trade Agreements on GDP can be extremely misleading for the policy ...
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SAFTA and AFTA: a comparative welfare analysis of two regional trade agreements
... international trade flows as they are signed to pave the way for trade between member countries, but their actual impact on trade flows remains ...about trade diversion, i.e., when two ...
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On the relationship between regional trade agreements and agricultural technology and productivity
... foreign regional exporting competi- ...a regional trading bloc, domestic firms in the agricultural sector become more exposed to foreign production technologies and ...
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Proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements: Complementing or Supplanting Multilateralism?
... that deal with RTAs (Article XXIV of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the 1979 GATT decision on differential and more favorable treatment, reciproc[r] ...
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Consolidation and Harmonization of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs): A Path Toward Global Free Trade
... and Trade (GATT)/WTO are currently inactive, 1 even though the formation of an RTA is costly to both participating countries and the world ...both regional and multilateral trade liberalization ...
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Mega-regional trade Agreements: Costly distractions for developing countries?
... These concerns are particularly pertinent within the context of the TPP Agreement, which has been positioned as a “model” for the twenty-first century implying that simi- lar provisions are likely to appear in future ...
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Multilateral supervision of regional trade agreements: Developing countries' perspectives
... multilateral level.433 Developing countries often face severe disadvantages in dealing with the rest o f the world because of their low bargaining power and high negotiation costs 434 Multilateral trade ...
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The role of the World Trade Organisation’s Committee on Regional Trade Agreements, between 1996 and 2010
... The evaluation under paragraphs 5 of Article XXIV of the general incidence of the duties and other regulations of commerce applicable before and after the formation of a customs union shall in respect of duties and ...
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Regional Trade Agreements: An African perspective of Challanges for Customs Policies and Future Strategies
... A trade creating RTA has more bearing on Customs than a trade diverting RTA, as it will lead to an increase in both the volume and flow of trade among the member countries which will also lead to ...
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Government Procurement with Strings Attached? The Uneven Control of Offsets by the World Trade Organization and Regional Trade Agreements
... a trade-related investment measure inconsistent with GATT’s national treatment ...a trade-related investment measure and a GATT-inconsistent local content requirement, the panel ruled that the scheme was ...
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An oligopolistic theory of regional trade agreements
... of regional PTAs in an oligopolistic model of trade based on Brander and Spencer (1984) and Yi ...which trade agreements are ...possible trade agreements can ...of trade ...
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The role of regional agreements in trade and investment rule making
... term regional trade agreements (RTAs) is used here as a generic term to describe a range o f preferential ...bilateral, regional, plurilateral and multilateral ...for trade and ...of ...
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