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  • Antidumping as safeguard policy (English)

    Antidumping is by far the most prevalent instrument applied by countries to impose new import restrictions. In the 1980s antidumping was used mainly by a handful of industrial countries. More recently...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2730 Document Date: December 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger, J. Michael,Ng,Francis K. T.,Wangchuk,Sonam

  • Market access bargaining in the Uruguay Round - Rigid or relaxed reciprocity? (English)

    How tightly are trade negotiators held to winning a dollar of concession for each dollar of concession granted? The outcome of the Uruguay Round tariff negotiations suggests that such constraints were...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2258 Document Date: December 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger, J. Michael,Reincke, Ulrich,Castro Fernandez,Adriana Maria

  • Market access advances and retreats : the Uruguay Round and beyond (English)

    In the Uruguay Round negotiations, trade distorting agricultural policies were taken up substantively for the first time in any round of multi-lateral trade negotiations. Voluntary export restraints outside...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2232 Document Date: November 30, 1999 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger, J. Michael,Schuknecht, Ludger

  • Trade policy reform - lessons and implications (English)

    This book contains a series of papers presented at the final conference sponsored by the Trade Expansion Program (TEP). The first chapter provides an overview of some of the lessons learned from the TEP's...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 18577 Document Date: September 30, 1998 Disclosure Status: Author: Nash, John (Editor),Takacs, Wendy (Editor),De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Collier,Paul,Panagariya,Arvind,Hood, Ron,Chia-Seng Wu,Shui-Chi Chuang,Finger, J. Michael,Hardy, Rebecca,Harrison,Ann E.,Revenga,Ana L.,Valdes,Alberto,Berg,Elliot J.

  • The Uruguay Round : statistics on tariff concessions given and received (English)

    This publication provides summaries of the tariff liberalization agreed at the Uruguay Round negotiations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The tables provide measures of reductions...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 15976 Document Date: August 31, 1996 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Finger, J. Michael,Ingco, Merlinda D.,Reincke, Ulrich

  • A rock and a hard place : the two faces of U.S. trade policy toward Korea (English)

    U.S. trade policy since the 1980s has been quite different from trade policy in the first two or three decades after World War II. Until the 1970s, U.S. trade policy was dominated by systematic concerns...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS1264 Document Date: March 31, 1994 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger, J. Michael,DEC

  • Can competition policy control "301"? (English)

    Should fair trade rules be replaced by national or international competition rules? A familiar argument for doing so is that more rigorously enforced competition standards might eliminate the basis for...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS1253 Document Date: February 28, 1994 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger, J. Michael,Fung, K.C.,DEC

  • Will GATT enforcement control antidumping? (English)

    The authors try to gauge why the GATT dispute settlement process has, to date, been so ineffective in disciplining the use of antidumping measures. Focusing on the five cases in which panels have completed...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS1232 Document Date: December 31, 1993 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger, J. Michael,Fung, K.C.,DEC

  • Policing unfair imports : the U.S. example (English)

    This paper researched the numbers on U.S. import cases to find out how the Unites States uses antidumping and countervailing duty actions to regulate imports. It describes the procedures followed by the...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS401 Document Date: March 31, 1990 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger, J. Michael,Murray, Tracy

  • The effects of industrial countries' policies on developing countries (English)

    Slower growth in the 1980s - of world trade as well as of developing countries' trade - is due mostly to slower income growth, and prospects are that the OECD countries' growth of gross domestic product...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 8024 Document Date: June 30, 1989 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger, J. Michael,Messerlin, Patrick A.