On the Optimal Trade Tariffs among Nations

Textile Trade Liberalization: Concerns about Widening Gaps among ASEAN Nations

Among the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), there are wide economic gaps between more developed countries including Singapore and Thailand and less developed ones including Vietnam. The gaps represents one of the largest obstacles to realizing the ASEAN’s goal of market integration and the situation is at risk of getting even worse next year, as it is increasingly l...

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Optimal tariffs on Exhaustible Resources: the Case of quantity-Setting

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Developing Countries and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement

It has long been observed that developing countries made scant use of dispute settlement under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Less clear are the reasons for this. Most observers insist that the various GATT reforms that were intended to help developing countries failed to insulate them from the “power politics” of the system (Kuruvila, 1997). Not surprisingly, many of these ...