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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) : its effect on South Asia
Safadi, Raed, Yeats, Alexander
Over the past three decades, free trade agreements were mostly a European phenomenon European Free Trade Agreement [EFTA], European Economic Community [EEC], and their regional arrangements)....
Asian trade barriers against primary and processed commodities
Safadi, Raed, Yeats, Alexander
Many developing countries are being encouraged to shift toward increased processing and exports of domestically produced natural resource based products now exported in primary form. But in many...
OECD trade barriers faced by the successor states of the Soviet Union
Kaminski, Bartlomiej, Yeats, Alexander
Using a comprehensive World Bank - UNCTAD data base on tariff barriers NTBs), the authors examine the incidence of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) trade barriers to...
Amjadi, Azita, Yeats, Alexander
Perhaps the major accomplishment of the Uruguay Round is agreements reached on nontariff barriers (NTBs). All NTBs imposed under the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) will be phased out over 10 years, and...
Does Mercosur's trade performance raise concerns about the effects of regional trade arrangements?
A concern about regional trade arrangements (RTAs) is whether the discriminatory trade barriers applied to RTAs encourage high-cost imports from member countries at the expense of nonmember...
Export prospects of Middle Eastern countries : a post-Uruguay Round analysis
Exports in the Middle Eastern countries should increase from $800 million to $900 million as a result of the tariff cuts agreed on in the Uruguay Round, according to the author.This represents an...
In the mid-1950s sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 3.1 percent of global exports. By 1990 this share had fallen to 1.2 percent. The authors of this report find that Africa's extensive loss of...
Major trade trends in East Asia : what are their implications for regional cooperation and growth
This study's empirical findings have positive implications for further efforts to expand East Asian regional trade and cooperation initiatives. Since the mid-1980s regional intra-trade has grown at a...
Nontariff measures and developing countries : has the Uruguay Round leveled the playing field?
Low, Patrick, Yeats, Alexander
In the policy environment prevailing before implementation of the Uruguay Round results, exports from developing countries face significant nontariff measures in industrial countries. Based on 1992...
Did external barriers cause the marginalization of sub-Saharan Africa in world trade?
Amjadi, Azita, Reinke, Ulrich, Yeats, Alexander
OECD barriers did not play a significant role in sub-Saharan Africa's declining position in world trade over the last three decades. The detrimental effects of the African countries'own policies,...
NAFTA's Implications for EastAsian exports
Braga, Carlos A. Primo, Safadi, Raed, Yeats, Alexander
Several studies have quantified the influence of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the earlier Canada - United States Free Trade Agreement on member countries. Less attention has...
Trends in nontariff barriers of developed countries : 1966-1986
While major concerns have been expressed about the spread of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in developing countries, the lack of empirical information on the dimensions of the increase has affected the...
Good governance and trade policy : are they the keys to Africa's global integration and growth?
Economists often argue that the level and structure of a country's trade barriers and the quality of its governance policies (for example, regulating foreign investment or limiting commercial...
Production sharing in East Asia : who does what for whom, and why?
The authors analyze empirical information on the nature and magnitude of, and motivation for, international production sharing in East Asia. To do so, they use a largely untapped source of data on...
World Bank demographic and country characteristic statistics identify 16 small landlocked countries that are similar to Lesotho. The authors attempt to determine what useful policy information can be...
Erzan, Refik, Yeats, Alexander
In establishing the value of imports for tariff assessment, most countries apply duties either to the cost-insurance-freight (c.i.f.) or the free-on-board (f.o.b.) value of the traded good. One...
Free trade agreements with the United States : what's in it for Latin America?
Erzan, Refik, Yeats, Alexander
Unlike earlier analysts, who have focused on U.S. objectives, the authors focus here on what 11 Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru,...
How minilateral trading agreements may affect the post-Uruguay Round world
Braga, C.A. Primo, Yeats, Alexander
One issue dominating recent discussions on free trade areas and other minilateral associations (preferential trade arrangements) is whether such arrangements will detract from further multilateral...
Transport Costs and Economic Integration in the Americas
Azita Amjadi, L. Alan Winters, Alexander Yeats
We discuss three models from the literature in which transportation costs play a critical role in evaluating international economic integration. One considers costs on intra-bloc trade, one those of...