An enormous amount of researches and studies have been made on the specific relationship between trade openness and economic growth. The world environment of trade of products‚ goods and services is considered as one of the main reason of economic growth of economies today. The research of a significant and positive or negative relationship between trade openness and economic growth in the actual context seems to be a prerequisite to better understand globalization. To better understand the nexus
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China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone was launched on September 29‚ 2013. It is being used as China’s experiment field to test policies for economic and social reforms. The main characteristics of the free trade zone are its open market‚ freedom from the majority of the tariffs and its liberal investment policies. It was established as a solution to the slowdown in China’s economy and increasing concerns about the rising debt of the country. With the opening of this zone‚ Chinese private enterprises
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Should Singapore pursue free-trade agreements? 1000 words The world is on our supermarket shelves - this is illustrative of the extent of trade Singapore engages in. As a small‚ open and export-oriented economy‚ the hinterland relies heavily on international exchange of trade to drive her economy. Singapore could be said to abide by a neoliberalist model that advocates the market’s independence from state’s intervention‚ and pursues the minimisation of trade. Within this objective lies two approaches
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The North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement which created a trade block between the three largest countries in North America; Canada‚ United States and Mexico. On January 1‚ 1994 the agreement entered into force.1 This agreement sets the regulations for international trade and investment between the three NAFTA member countries. NAFTA’s purpose was to promote trade on many goods that originated and are traded between its members‚ by eradicating trade barriers over a period of 15 years
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Evolution of achievement of the WTO and the Doha rounds of trade talk. Background: The thought is the father to the deed‚ and the multilateral trading system could never have been built if it had not first been imagined. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is not the product of just one idea‚ however‚ or even one school of thought. It instead represents the confluence of‚ and sometimes the conflict between‚ three distinct areas of theory and practice. Law‚ economics and politics have each inspired
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Shanghai Free Trade Zone(SFTZ) officially known as the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free-Trade Zone was officially launched on September 29‚2013. With the backing of Chinese Premier Li Ke Qiang‚ Mainland China formed its first ever free trade zone. Personally‚ I feel that the establishment of the SFTZ is a stepping stone for China to boost their economy as well as creating more innovative and realistic systems to maintain its country’s competitiveness. SFTZ is a necessity for China to boost global cooperation
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The World Trade Organization and Its Critics Contents What is the WTO? 2 How the WTO is Organized 5 Decision Making Process 6 Non Effective System 7 Dominant Critics 8 Complaints 11 Goals 12 Structure 13 Positive Responses 14 Should the WTO be abolished? 16 Bibliography 19 THE WTO AND ITS CRITICS CASE STUDY What is the WTO? The World Trade Organization (WTO) was established and incorporated in January 1st 1995 at the amendment of the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT)
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United States of America (US) have been officially negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) since July 2013. It proposes the establishment of a common free trade area with the objective of facilitate business across the Atlantic through the elimination of tariffs and the harmonization of regulatory standards. This agreement would be unprecedented in terms of dimension‚ with the creation a free trade area representing nearly half of the global economic output with only 11.8
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Critically evaluate the role of GATT/WTO in trade liberalization The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. This was formed as General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT) in 1947 as a result of Britton Woods’s agreement created by the World Bank and the international monitory fund. Moreover GATT has been established after World War II in the wake of other new multilateral institutions dedicate to international
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U.S.-European Union Trade Relations: Issues and Policy Challenges SUMMARY The United States and European Union (EU) share a huge and mutually beneficial economic partnership. Not only is the U.S.-EU trade and investment relationship the largest in the world‚ it is arguably the most important. Agreement between the two economic superpowers has been critical to making the world trading system more open and efficient. Given a huge level of commercial interactions‚ trade tensions and disputes
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