EU's value-based approach in trade policy: (free) trade for all?

South African Trade Policy Matters : Trade Performance and Trade Policy

South African trade policy has exerted a major influence on the composition and aggregate growth of trade. In the Apartheid period, trade protection seriously impeded both exports and imports, and the economy depended on favorable global commodity price trends to avoid running into an external constraint. South Africa developed a comparative advantage in capital-intensive primary and manufactur...

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Welfare Reducing Trade and Optimal Trade Policy

This paper shows that free trade reduces the welfare of a small country with unemployment unless the free trade price if the importable falls below the autarky equivalent price. A decline in the price of the importable from the autarky level not only improves the terms of trade but also reduces employment and production in the importable sector. A numerical example illustrates that the autarky ...

Managing the Transition to Free Trade: Vietnamese Trade Policy for the 21 Century

comments on earlier versions of the study. I have also benefited greatly from participating in the trade talks between OECD and Vietnam in early May 1997, and I would like to thank Jack Martens of OECD's Trade Directorate for providing this valuable opportunity to learn more about the making of trade policy. However, I am personally responsible for the views and opinions presented below, as wel...

Consumer Preferences for Fair Trade Foods: Implications for Trade Policy

Economists overwhelmingly support free international trade. According to a 2006 Economists’ Voice survey, for example, 87% of economists polled agreed that “the U.S. should eliminate remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade.” Yet a vocal community of activists opposes globalization due to concerns that trade exploits workers and the environment in the developing world. In response to these...