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Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen - Vol. 62 Num. 3, Septembre 2007

Das Parallelimportverbot Der Schweiz Aus Sicht Der Aussenhandelstheorie

This paper analyses Swiss import policy for patent-protected goods (national exhaustion) - which in comparison with other (European) countries is restrictive - from the perspective of international trade theory. Even though trade theory provides arguments against the elimination of trade barriers in multiply-regulated markets (theory of the second best), these seem to apply, if at all, to price-regulated goods in the specific case analysed in this paper. There is a danger that liberalising im...

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Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen - Vol. 61 Num. 2, Mars 2006

Die Schweizerische Aussenhandelspolitik Im Windschatten Der Europäischen Union

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.

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Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen - Vol. 59 Num. 3, Septembre 2004

Präferenzielle Ursprungsregeln in Freihandelszonen: Hemmnisse Für Den Internationalen Handel?

The growing number of free trade areas has resulted in an increasing importance of preferential rules of origin. Regularly, these instruments are used as protectionist devices. Rules of origin are becoming obstacles for international trade. In this paper, firstly the various types of rules of origin and their administration will be explained. The analysis of the consequences for international trade shows that rules of origin can produce trade diversion. The attempts of the European Union to r...