Horizontal Depth: A New Database on the Content of Preferential Trade Agreements

Hofmann, Claudia; Osnago, Alberto; Ruta, Michele

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-7981

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“…16. Provisions on product-specific regulation are included in two-thirds of the 279 agreements covered in the most recent of these databases, compiled by the World Bank (Hofmann et al, 2017). Some 40 per cent of agreements include provisions on competition policy, although in most cases these are soft law commitments and not enforceable.…”

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“…Many trade agreements go beyond national treatment by introducing specific disciplines for product regulation: socalled technical barriers to trade (TBT) (product standards) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures (for foodstuffs, plants and animal health) (D€ ur et al, 2014;Hofmann et al, 2017). 15 In addition, many trade agreements also increasingly include provisions on competition policy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…4. Provisions on product-specific regulation are included in two-thirds of the 279 agreements covered in the most recent of these databases, compiled by the World Bank (Hofmann et al, 2017). These reflect 'perceptions of the ability of the government to formulate and implement sound policies and regulations that permit and promote private sector development' (Kaufmann et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Trade Agreements, Regulatory Institutions and Services Liberalization

Fiorini

Hoekman

2018

Global Policy

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Many agreements to liberalize trade in services tend to be limited in scope. This is a puzzle considering the high share of services in total employment and value added and relatively high barriers to trade in services in many countries. In this paper we argue that neglected complementarities between services trade policies and domestic regulation may help to understand the limited ambition on services observed in many trade agreements. We show that the productivity effects of services trade liberalization are conditional on regulatory quality. Our findings suggest that greater effort to design trade agreements with a view to improving regulatory quality may be a necessary condition for deepening the services coverage of trade agreements and will enhance the welfare gains from services trade liberalization.

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Trade Agreements, Regulatory Institutions and Services Liberalization

Fiorini

Hoekman

2018

Global Policy

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“…indicated by LE in Figure 4). This approach has been extended by Hoffman et al (2017) to include 279 RTAs over the 1985-2015 period. Figure 4 summarizes a tally of the count of provisions for the 117 S-S RTAs, focusing on comparisons between 7 SSA (of which 5 are RECs) and other (108) S-S RTAs.…”

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Integration along the Abuja road map: A progress report

Mélo¹,

Nouar²,

Solleder³

2017

WIDER Working Paper

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This study has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project on 'Industries without smokestacks', which is part of a larger research project on 'Jobs, poverty and structural change in Africa'.Abstract: This paper reviews integration among the eight African Regional Economic Communities by comparing their characteristics and progress with three other South-South Regional Integration Arrangements. Three conclusions emerge: (i) slow progress towards meeting overly ambitious objectives; (ii) small changes in the destination of trade across all Regional Economic Communities, indicative of persistent high trade costs and few new manufactures products destined for geographically close markets; and (iii) compared with other South-South Regional Integration Arrangements, the Regional Economic Communities include a high number of provisions not covered in Word Trade Organization negotiations, but these have low legal enforceability. Reasons for this slow progress are explored in the paper.

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“…Unlike other papers which have analysed e-commerce provisions in RTAs 4 , this study is the first one to provide a comprehensive quantitative analysis by analysing the 275 RTAs currently in force and notified to the WTO as of May 2017. It hopes to contribute to the growing literature that systematically maps RTA rules in various trade areas using different analytical approaches (a partial list includes Alschner et al, 2017;Hofmann, et al , 2017;Monteiro, 2016a;Monteiro, 2016b;Chauffour and Maur, 2011;Horn et al, 2009;Estevadeordal et al, 2009). …”

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Provisions on Electronic Commerce in Regional Trade Agreements

Monteiro

Teh

2017

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Disclaimer: This is a working paper, and hence it represents research in progress. The opinions expressed in this paper are those of its authors. They are not intended to represent the positions or opinions of the WTO or its members and are without prejudice to members' rights and obligations under the WTO. Any errors are attributable to the authors. Terms of use: Documents in 2 PROVISIONS ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE IN REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS José-Antonio Monteiro and Robert TehManuscript date: June 2017 * ABSTRACT: This paper reviews the different types of provisions explicitly addressing electronic commerce (e-commerce) in regional trade agreements (RTAs). The analysis covers the 275 RTAs currently in force and notified to the WTO as of May 2017. The analysis shows that e-commerce provisions have become increasingly more detailed but remain highly heterogeneous. The most common types of e-commerce provisions refer to the promotion of e-commerce, cooperation activities and the moratorium on customs duties. Other e-commerce provisions concern the domestic legal framework as well as more specific issues, such as electronic authentication, consumer protection, personal information protection and paperless trading.

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Horizontal Depth: A New Database on the Content of Preferential Trade Agreements

Cited by 186 publications

References 7 publications

Trade Agreements, Regulatory Institutions and Services Liberalization

Trade Agreements, Regulatory Institutions and Services Liberalization

Integration along the Abuja road map: A progress report

Provisions on Electronic Commerce in Regional Trade Agreements

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