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The GATT and gradualism [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of International Economics, 2007
Abstract This paper shows how the institutional rules imposed on its signatories by the GATT created a strategic incentive for countries to liberalize gradually. Trade liberalization must be gradual, and free trade can never be achieved, if punishment for deviation from an agreement is limited to a ‘withdrawal of equivalent concessions’ and if ...
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Bringing GATT into the Core [PDF]

open access: possibleEconomica, 1994
This paper calculates international income transfers which implement a Pareto optimal trade equilibrium in a world where many countries trade many goods.
Kowalczyk, Carsten, Sjostrom, Tomas
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Green electricity and the GATT

2021
The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law is a landmark reference work, providing definitive and comprehensive coverage of this dynamic field. The Encyclopedia is organised into 12 volumes around top-level subjects – such as water, energy and climate change – that reflect some of the most pressing issues facing us today.
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GATT, Trade, and Growth

2018
The GATT-sponsored dismantling of the heavily protectionist structures that took hold in the 1930s moved the world toward freer trade as it gradually opened up previously restricted markets. It supported renewed growth worldwide for three decades. In the 1980s, the world economy dragged under the weight of reduced trade and surging nontariff barriers ...
Xie, Danyang, Rivera-Batiz, Luis A.
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The Role of the GATT and the Nature of GATT Negotiations

1998
The opening up of trade during the last forty years has been mainly due to the efforts made in the GATT. There have been seven GATT trade liberalisation rounds in all, including the Dillon, Kennedy and Tokyo Rounds and most recently the Uruguay Round. While this process has been slow and its development rather patchy, the results have nonetheless been ...
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Evolution of the GATT and GATT Law

2008
Abstract When the GATT was being drafted and negotiated in 1947–48, the Cold War between the Western democracies and the Soviet bloc was just beginning; the recovery of Western Europe from the ravages of World War II was in its early stages; Japan was essentially outside the international economy; most of Africa and major parts of Asia ...
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The GATT

2013
Abstract This chapter explores the significance of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994. GATT aims for international trade liberalization by progressively eliminating or restricting barriers to trade and other protectionist interferences with competition on the world market as well as the national markets.
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The GATT in Historical Perspective

2017
The transformation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on January 1, 1995, provides an opportune moment to take stock of the GATT's achievements and shortcomings alongside those of its 50-year-old sister international institutions set up at Bretton Woods.
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