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That Chinese “juggernaut” – Should Europe Really Worry about its Trade Deficit with China?
China’s exchange-rate policy has been under attack in the last years, especially in the United States. Now the critique of Beijing’s policy is...
So Alike and Yet so Different: A Comparison of the Uruguay Round and the Doha Round
As the first multilateral trade round to be conducted under the auspices of the WTO, the Doha Round is beginning to appear as protracted, complicated...
Kazakhstan’s Accession to the WTO: A Quantitive Assessment
In light of Kazakhstan’s interest to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), this paper investigates the impact of the WTO accession on trade...
Sweden – From Free Trade to Protectionism?
Sweden has been one of the leading voices for freer trade in the post-war era. Its support for the multilateral trading system has been strong. Today...
Trade Facilitation: The Role of a WTO Agreement
Trade facilitation negotiations have been one of the more active topics in the Doha negotiations. In this paper noted trade scholar J. Michael Finger...
Kazakhstan and the World Economy: An Assessment of Kazakhstan’s Trade Policy and Pending Accession to the WTO
Kazakhstan has been negotiating accession to the WTO for twelve years, following a line of ex-Soviet states seeking membership. In this new,...
Preferential Trade Agreements in Services: Friends or Foes of the Multilateral Trading System?
A fashionable feature of new generation preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has been the inclusion of a trade in services component. Does this trend...