The proliferation of bilateral and regional trade agreements has arguably been the main
change to the international trading system since the end of the Uruguay Round in the mid …

This working paper reflects Indis's domestic production on exports and imports. The paper
also highlights upon India’ s two policy instruments, namely price controls and reserving …

One important feature in the more global proliferation of regional trade agreement early
1990s. Not only in terms of number decades also introduced man beyond simple elimination …

This chapter takes stock of the most recent wave of PTAs with a view to informing some of
the policy choices developing countries face in negotiating preferential agreements in …

EU and national policy-makers argue that the single services market is a key to EU growth,
but that many barriers to services market access remain. Grasping the scope, nature and …

There is substantial evidence that with the progressive global decline in tariffs over several
decades, trade costs are a more significant barrier to trade than tariffs, especially in Sub …

I argue that the intra-European integration of services trade, even if it threatens to impose
costs on third countries in the short run, on average makes the European Union (EU) more …

Subsidies amount to one of the most complex issues in terms of non-tariff barriers to trade.
On the one hand, they inevitably distort conditions of competition. On the other hand, they …

It is an appropriate time to rethink the relationship between trade regionalism and
multilateralism in the Asian context as we witness the proliferation of free trade agreements …

Participation in global value chains is a key element in the industrialization strategies of
many developing nations. This paper investigates the role of services liberalization in …