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That Chinese “juggernaut” – Should Europe Really Worry about its Trade Deficit with China?
China’s exchange-rate policy has been under attack in the last years, especially in the United States. Now the critique of Beijing’s policy is...
Kazakhstan and the World Economy: An Assessment of Kazakhstan’s Trade Policy and Pending Accession to the WTO
Kazakhstan has been negotiating accession to the WTO for twelve years, following a line of ex-Soviet states seeking membership. In this new,...
Trade Facilitation: The Role of a WTO Agreement
Trade facilitation negotiations have been one of the more active topics in the Doha negotiations. In this paper noted trade scholar J. Michael Finger...
Sweden – From Free Trade to Protectionism?
Sweden has been one of the leading voices for freer trade in the post-war era. Its support for the multilateral trading system has been strong. Today...
Proliferation of Preferential Trade Agreements: A Quantification of its Impact
Literature has frequently evaluated the proliferation of preferential trade agreement (PTAs) by counting the number of PTAs or the share of...
One Minute to Midnight: Is There Still Time to Rethink EPAs?
The European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries are entering the final phase of negotiation over...
Trade Costs, Barriers to Entry, and Export Diversification in Developing Countries
This paper finds that a 1 percent reduction in the cost of exporting or the cost of international transport is associated with an export...