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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Trading partners"”.
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Intra-Industry Trade in Agricultural Products Between the United States, NAFTA and European Union Trading Partners
… the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) trading partners. We analyze the food and live animal industry at the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 4 at the 4-digit level to calculate IIT and cover the period between 2007 and 2014. To determine the country-specific …
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The World’s Leading Regulator: Why Countries Must Abide by the European Union’s Strict Chemical Laws and What that Means For its Closest Trading Partners
… imposes strict regulatory standards. The largest trading partners of the EU were forced to comply and adopt many of the EU’s new laws while one in particular (the United States) did not, and instead left it up to the private companies. </p> <p> The evidence reported in this thesis will prove that …
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The dynamics of global financial crises
… for a three country example suggest that minor trading partners can increase the likelihood of a crisis in the home country through their effect on major trading partners.
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The trade balancing act : reconciling domestic and foreign politics.
… minimize injury to relationships with important trading partners. I also find that, when examining the US antidumping tariff decisions specifically, the International Trade Association sets tariffs significantly lower against the most important trading partners, a result shown through OLS and …
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The effects of political shocks on international trade: evidence from China and major partners, 1998-2018
… China's rapid emergence as a global economic and trading power. The study develops a game-theoretical framework in which a bi-directional relationship exists between trade and conflict. The theoretical framework is used as a basis to identify the short- and long-term effects of moderate shocks in …
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The effects of political shocks on international trade: evidence from China and major partners, 1998-2018
… China's rapid emergence as a global economic and trading power. The study develops a game-theoretical framework in which a bi-directional relationship exists between trade and conflict. The theoretical framework is used as a basis to identify the short- and long-term effects of moderate shocks in …
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Sanitary and phytosanitary standards: implications for trade and development in Kenya
… producers and traders meet SPS conditions of trading partners and to enhance the country’s ability to compete in global markets without excluding smallholder producers. However, these efforts have not proportionately reduced incidences of rejections and complaints on Kenya’s agrofood exports, …
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From OAU To AFCTA - Analysing The Prospects For Economic Development In Africa
… which led to the WTO governed multilateral trading system. Today the top trading partners of African Union member States are non-African countries. Only twenty per cent of Africa’s total trade is with its continental neighbours, whereas an estimated eighty per cent of its trade is with other …
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The U.S. - Colombia free trade agreement - A historical placement of the FTA
… globalization bringing two countries to be equal trading partners as its authors state. The FTA instead is an example of the U.S. continuing its policy agenda towards Colombia that has existed for over 50 years. This agenda grossly benefits the U.S., destabilizes Colombia, and keeps Colombia …
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Supply Chain Strategy and the Benefits of Information Exchange
… of both the technology champion firm and the trading partner firm. Longitudinal analyses are conducted using data gathered from an electronically mediated industrial exchange network. This unique dataset, which includes information exchange data for thirty-nine technology champion firms and …
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A Fragile Balance: The Venetian Glass Industry in Cross-Cultural Artisitic Exchange with the Islamic World
… relationships Venice forged with its Islamic trading partners provided Venice with both wealth and cross-cultural awareness.</p>
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An EU-South African free trade agreement : how will South Africa benefit?
… in addition to longer term dynamic gains, of trading agreements between two countries. Regional integration, appropriately modified, can deliver this body of theory. That is, it does raise the key issues in assessing the necessary costs and benefits of further integration on both trading …
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Trade linkages and growth in South Africa: an SVAR analysis
… to the shocks that originate from its major trading partners over time using a structural vector autoregressive framework. We examine the impact of shocks emanating from the EU, the US, China, Japan, India and Brazil on South Africa’s output growth through both direct and indirect trade …
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The implications of digitizing and the Internet for "fair use" in South Africa
… and regions, namely South Africa's major trading partners U.S.A., Europe (EC/Germany/UK) and Australia will be described and compared. This is done in order to analyse whether or not their approaches can either be adopted by South Africa or, at least, serve as a model. In part III, the …
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Technology diffusion and productivity : evidence from the South African manufacturing sector
… equipment that embodies foreign knowledge from trading partners that do significant amounts of research and development. The focus is on South Africa's manufacturing sector. Furthermore, the paper also examines the role of human capital in the facilitation of the effective adoption of foreign …
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The impact of exchange rate fluctuations on international trade: a case study of Saudi Arabia
… rates, which in turn affect its trade flows from trading partners. Since the advent of the floating exchange rates in the early 1970s, Saudi Arabia chose to peg its currency to the U.S. dollar, then to the SDR, and later switched back to the dollar-peg. Consequently, Saudi Arabia could not avoid …
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Essays on uncertainty in economics
… banks normally collect information about their trading partners which assures them of the soundness of these relationships. However, when acute financial distress emerges in parts of the financial network, it is not enough to be informed about these partners, as it also becomes important to …
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INDIA’S EXPORT PERFORMANCE 1996-2015: THE ROLE OF PRODUCT QUALITY
… on India’s export performance to its major trading partners. It aims at evaluating the empirical relevance of product quality to explore India’s export performance from 1996-2015 using different estimation methods. The first chapter examines the relationship between product quality and …
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Trump’s Foreign Policy, Authoritarian Populism and Democracy
… who now faced less competition with imports. But trading partners immediately responded with tariff retaliation, especially against US agricultural exports, which harmed US workers in other parts of the economy. The US agricultural sector was so hard-hit that by the summer of 2018, the Trump …
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