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When the General Tariff and Trade Agreement was initiated in 1947, the goal of this system was the mutual opening of national markets. In the meantime, the created world trading order is in danger to split apart into regional markets. The World Trade Organization (WTO) currently counts 200 trade unions, free trade areas, preferential agreements and economic partnerships that went back to introducing their own tariffs, distanced themselves from the most favoured nation and national treatment clauses and created additional trade barriers such as certificates of origin. The first part of the paper contains a conceptional differentiation of regional free trade areas; the second part discusses the proliferation of regional agreements despite GATT and WTO. The necessary corrections are debate...
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Bilateral free trade agreements are mushrooming all over the world. The current standstill in multilateral trade negotiations will contribute further to this trend. Since dialogue in the Doha-Round came to a halt in July 2006, bilateral agreements have received additional support. In this paper, the author will analyse the utility of bilateral trade agreements and the systemic disadvantages they have for weaker players. Dispute settlement is a major issue. The question here is whether bilateral dispute settlement is inferior to the multilateral regime. Subsequently he will consider the evidence provided by Australia's Free Trade agreement with the United States as well as the bilateral agreements of Singapore and Thailand. It will be demonstrated that the current wave of bilateral agree...
... bilaterale und regionale Präferenzabkommen abschliessen (HUFBAUER und WONG 2005). Die Zunahme...
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..., dass eine Vertragspartei ein Präferenzabkommen mit einer Nicht-Vertragspartei unter Artikel XXIV ...
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In this article the thesis will be that Switzerland has hardly used the clearance for its own foreign trade policy in the past 30 years, in order to operate a substantially more liberal foreign trade policy than the European Union. Only in Switzerland are tariffs somewhat deeper than in the European Union.
... Freihandels- und einseitigen Pràferenzabkommen mit Entwicklungslandern, reduzieren bzw. abschaffe...
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... aus bestehenden und künftigen Präferenzabkommen Japans mit Drittstaaten ergeben. Infolge der gegen...
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, by Amitra Narlikar, is reviewed.
... Mitglied in einem regionalen Präferenzabkommen. So stellt sich die Frage, ob das die Zukunft sein...
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... zwischen diesen angewandten Präferenzabkommen oder autonomen Regelungen ordnungsgemäss ausg...
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... mit Chile ebenfalls je ein Präferenzabkommen abgeschlossen haben). Weiter vereinbaren die EFTA-...
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... aus bestehenden und künftigen Präferenzabkommen Koreas mit anderen Partnerstaaten ergeben. Ein Wet...
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... bemüht, sein Netzwerk von Präferenzabkommen auszudehnen. Das vorliegende Abkommen ermöglicht ...