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The geography of conflicts and free trade agreements [PDF]

open access: possible, 2010
We analyze the interaction of economic and political determinants of free trade agreements (FTA). In addition to standard trade gains, FTAs can promote peaceful relations by offering a political forum and by increasing the opportunity cost of conflicts that disrupt trade.
Mathias Thoenig   +2 more
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Free Trade Agreements and the Americas

IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 2013
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) writes to support the effort of the Obama Administration to develop a comprehensive, forward-looking Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. BIO and its members believe a successful TPP Agreement will create an environment that promotes collaboration and innovation throughout the trans-Pacific region.
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Free Trade Agreements and Offshoring

Challenge, 2018
Free trade advocates have long argued that the gains far exceed the losses. Moreover, we must accept that some lose out in order for society as a whole to benefit from the gains.
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Free trade agreement and transport service trade

The World Economy, 2017
AbstractThis study investigates the effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) on trade in transport services using OECD data from 2003 to 2006. Our analysis found that FTAs had a positive overall impact on transport services for multiple countries (i.e., 26 home and 56 partner countries).
Jaimin Lee, Seong-Hoon Cho
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Free Trade Agreements in the Asia Pacific

2009
An Analysis of the Restrictions on Foreign Direct Investment in Free Trade Agreements (S Urata & J Sasuya) Assessing the Economic Impacts of Free Trade Agreements: A Computable Equilibrium Approach (K Abe) Impacts of Japanese FTAs/EPAs: Post-Evaluation from Initial Data (M Ande) Market Access in FTAs: Assessment Based on Rules of Origin and ...
Christopher Findlay   +2 more
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Plurilateralism and Free Trade Agreements

The Journal of World Investment & Trade
Abstract Plurilateralism has often been discussed as an alternative to multilateral trade agreements concluded through single undertaking/Uruguay Round-style trade negotiations. However, single undertaking-style multilateral trade liberalization is no longer a feasible approach to sustained progress in international trade liberalization, and as such ...
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Regional Free Trade Agreements

2017
This chapter examines the non-discrimination obligations in regional trade agreements drawing on provisions from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the ASEAN–Australia–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) and the newly negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) for examples.
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Subsidies and the Free Trade Agreement

1997
This chapter reviews the role of the countervail/subsidy dispute in the negotiation of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. The first section examines Canada’s decision to petition the US for a free trade agreement and why the US agreed. It includes a review of some important CVD cases.
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Bilateral Free Trade Agreements

2017
In this chapter the discussion turns to the interaction of tax and trade obligations in bilateral free trade agreements using as examples some of the bilateral free trade agreements entered into by Canada and Australia. The chapter examines the issues and interpretation problems that arise in Bilateral Free Trade Agreements which result in widely ...
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Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Employment

While FTA negotiations are proliferating, our paper shows that targeting the appropriate sector is crucial for generating employment opportunities subsequent to FTA. In particular, we show that, countering conventional wisdom, targeting skill-biased exports and not the sector that employs unskilled workers who usually constitute the large core of the ...
Chowdhury, Sumit   +2 more
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