Regional trade
- Protecting the small countries in trade negotiations
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Small countries usually depend more on international trade than other countries and are more exposed to trade-related risks. This paper addresses the issues of special and differential treatment for small and vulnerable economies from the perspective of a Situational Approach.
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- The flawed rationale for a customs union and other challenges for Southern African regional integration
- ( A. Bösl;W. Breytenbach;T. Hartzenberg / Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit , 2007)
- External and internal developments have raised the regional integration agenda in southern Africa to a new level. However, the region remains committed to a linear model of regional integration: a cus...
- Analysis of the EPAs for Africa in 2008
- ( C. Stevens;M. Meyn;J. Kennon / European Centre for Development Policy Management , 2008)
- The start of 2008 marked the end of over 30 years of Lomé/Cotonou preferences, and yet most ACP countries did not lose their privileged access to European markets. This report, prepared by the ...
- Nigeria would benefit more from a FTA with the EU than from any likely Doha outcome
- ( R. Sandrey;H.G. Jensen;O. Oyewumi / Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa , 2007)
- Nigeria exports mainly fuels and mining products to the US and the EU. Nigerian exports have effectively duty-free access into both of these destinations while Nigerian tariffs are high by internation...
- To exploit the full potential of intra-regional rationalisation, Asia needs more liberal investment provisions
- ( N. Kumar / Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, India , 2007)
- This paper examines the role of investment liberalisation in Asian regional trading arrangements (RTAs). In general, RTAs facilitate the rationalisation of industry, i.e. the exploitation of economies...
- Asia should consider European ways of integration
- ( R.J. Langhammer / Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft , 2007)
- The widening of East Asian regional integration has been driven by external aspects. Lessons Asia could learn from the European experience are however limited in their reach because:...
- ACP countries should refuse to be rushed into EPAs
- ( C. Delpeuch;G. Harp / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2007)
- The preferences granted by the European Union (EU) to the ACP countries in Cotonou are neither reciprocal nor extended to all developing countries and therefore not compliant with WTO legislation. As ...
- Overcoming overlapping membership and other challenges to enjoy the benefits of the COMESA Customs Union
- ( J.L. Mambara / Trade and Development Studies Centre – Trust, Zimbabwe , 2007)
- COMESA's goal is the establishment of a free trade area, a customs union, a common market and ultimately an economic union. COMESA is home to 10 of the poorest countries in the world - Angola, Burundi...
- Central America's welfare gains depend on European openness to bananas and sugar
- ( H. Rojas-Romagosa;L. Rivera / Institute for International and Development Economics , 2007)
- While many agricultural products from Central America already enter duty-free into the European Union (EU) thanks to the GSP plus initiative, there remain two notable exceptions: bananas, a major Cent...
- What lies ahead for the APEC transparency and trade facilitation agenda?
- ( M. Helble;B. Shepherd;J.S. Wilson / World Bank Publications , 2007)
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This document carries out an analysis of the gains from improving transparency in APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation). It particularly focuses on two main touchstones of policy transparency th...
- Quotas may diversify imports instead of helping local industry
- ( J. van Eeden;R. Sandrey / Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa , 2007)
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South Africa imposed quotas on the importation of selected clothing lines from China to slow the trade flow of imports. This paper answers the question whether those quotas are meeting their goal. ...
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