Despite intergovernmental calls for greater policy coherence to tackle rising non-communicable diseases (NCDs), there has been a striking lack of coherence internationally and nationally between trade and health sectors. In this commentary, I explore the arguments by Lenucha and Thow in relation to barriers for greater coherence for NCDs, apply them to regional trade ag...

Two major topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. The service sector emits only a small part of overall pollution, and those service industries that do pollute do not trade internationally. This paper uses data on trade in services from the U.S. Bureau of Economic A...

Prospective studies of the potential health consequences of trade and investment treaties, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, are critical. These studies can make visible to trade policy-makers the potential negative impacts associated to such treaties and can influence the outcomes of such negotiations. However, few researchers have examined retrospectively the consequences of trade agreem...

make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Executive Summary Several domestic and international developments increased interest among the US dairy industry in world markets during the 1990s. One development was the passage of the NAFTA and Uruguay Round (URA) trade agreements in the mid-decade, a...

To address the illicit cigarette trade, the European Union (EU) has signed agreements with the four major Transnational Tobacco Companies (TTCs) that involve establishing extensive systems of cooperation. All agreements foresee two types of payments: annual payments (totalling US$ 1.9 billion over 20 years) and supplementary seizure payments, equivalent to 100% of the evaded taxes in the event ...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Challenges of sustainability even under maximum cooperation 3. Erosion of social development policy in the rich countries and consequent distress 4. Guidance given by the Earth Summit and its rejection by the rich 5. Asymmetries and systemic biases in the trading system against weaker members 6. Rich country civil societies attack and undermine international intergov...

How should countries cooperate in setting fiscal and trade policies when government expenditures must be financed with distorting taxes? We show that even if cannot make explicit transfers to each other, every point on the Pareto frontier is production efficient, so international capital flows effectively free. Trade agreements supplemented policy agreements. Residence-based income tax systems ...

The negotiation and construction of a Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) bears the elements of its future success. The agreement identifies the relative strength of the countries involved and the long-term internal functioning of the agreement. A comparison between the NAFTA and Mercosur RTAs highlights this concept. NAFTA appears to indicate the clear range of possibilities to the US, Canada and M...

trips agreement (trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights) is one of the binding agreements of world trade organization, upon the cases originate from that agreement also heared at dispute settlement understanding. one different character of trips agreement is expressing minimum standards. the diverse explanation of its articles may lead to some controversy between members of world...