Free trade agreements versus customs unions
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Free Trade Agreements versus Customs Unions:
Overlapping bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) are proliferating in East Asia. Quite a few economists worry about the spaghetti bowl phenomenon expected from the proliferating East Asian regional trade agreements (RTAs).The complicated web of hub-and-spoke type of FTAs can result in high costs for verifying rules of origin (RoO). As an alternative policy option to avoid the negative effect ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Development Economics
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0304-3878
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3878(97)00032-1