{"title":"Energy Balance in India's International Trade: An Input-Output Based Analysis","authors":"A. Tandon, Shahid Ahmed","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3011128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3011128","url":null,"abstract":"The energy balance due to embodied energy use may be significant for trade dependent economies. In this paper, authors estimate the balance of embodied energy in India’s international trade at aggregate and sector levels. Over time, the composite energy sector (including primary and secondary energy) is observed to have turned from energy deficit to energy surplus primarily on account of expanding petroleum sector. On the contrary, non-energy sector has become energy deficit though it had a relatively insignificant energy surplus in the initial period. This points to the importance of embodied energy, particularly coal based, in the traded goods.","PeriodicalId":426783,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Trade Policy (Topic)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126812265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantifying the UK’s Post-Brexit Export Potential: A Gravity Model Analysis","authors":"Dan Ciuriak, Fanny Siauw-Soegiarto, S. Sun","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3088624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3088624","url":null,"abstract":"This study assesses the potential for enhancement post-Brexit of the UK’s non-EU trading relationships by comparing actual levels of UK exports to predicted levels based on gravity model analysis, including by taking into account factors such as similarity/dissimilarity of comparative advantage, economic freedom in partner countries, and the scope for upgrading diplomatic representation. The study finds that UK exports follow patterns consistent with the findings from the gravity model literature. Moreover, an ambitious, outward-looking export promotion policy could make up for foregone export potential to the EU under a soft exit from the Single Market in which the UK obtains a deep and comprehensive trade agreement with the EU. However, to offset the export losses are a hard exit would require raising the level of the UK’s global competitiveness based on inside the border measures to boost innovation and business development.","PeriodicalId":426783,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Trade Policy (Topic)","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121677750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Korea's Multilateral Trade Policies in the Changing Global Trade Landscape","authors":"Jin Kyo Suh","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2929083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2929083","url":null,"abstract":"Global trade growth has been depressed since 2010. What is worse is that the WTO cut 2016 global trade growth forecast to 1.7%, down from its previous estimate of 2.8%. On the other hand, plurilateral negotiations are rapidly becoming widespread in the WTO negotiations. The first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal was adopted by 195 countries. There is a rapid spread of increasing anger over globalization. Furthermore, the next WTO Ministerial Conference will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in early December 2017. However, the Trump administration is developing a national trade policy that would seek to diminish the influence of the WTO in the United States. What should the new direction for Korea's multilateral trade policy be in such a changing global trade environment? New directions of Korea's multilateral trade policies are suggested as follows. Korea has to make efforts to secure enough flexibility in the reduction of both total and product-specific AMS (aggregate measure of support), since AMS of rice accounts for more than 90% of the Total AMS of Korea. Second, Korea should actively participate in both the U.S.-led plurilateral discussions on fishery subsidies and multilateral negotiations led by the EU, if it is to reflect its interests in the process of rule-making on fishery subsidies. The new multilateral trade policy of Korea should aim to spread benefits of trade liberalization out to the whole stakeholders, particularly focusing on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Korea should prepare for the proliferation of plurilateral negotiations led by developed countries. Finally, we have to think of environmental subsidies as green subsidies, which are allowed in the WTO system.","PeriodicalId":426783,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Trade Policy (Topic)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129947142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Launching Export Accelerations in Latin America and the World","authors":"Valerie Cerra, Martha Tesfaye Woldemichael","doi":"10.5089/9781475585506.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475585506.001","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the determinants of sustained accelerations in goods and services exports. Strong predictors of export takeoffs include domestic and structural indicators such as lower macroeconomic uncertainty, improved quality of institutions, a depreciated exchange rate, and agricultural reforms. Lower tariffs, participation in global value chains and diversification also contribute to initiating export accelerations. The paper also finds heterogeneity, with somewhat different triggers for Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as for goods and services. Finally, despite the lack of a robust effect on output, export surges tend to be associated with lower post-acceleration unemployment and income inequality.","PeriodicalId":426783,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Trade Policy (Topic)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128698717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Composition of Trade in Latin America and the Caribbean","authors":"Xiaodan Ding, M. Hadzi-Vaskov","doi":"10.5089/9781475585490.001.A001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475585490.001.A001","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzes composition of goods trade in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) along four main dimensions: revealed comparative advantage, product complexity, sophistication, and diversification. After describing some key trade patterns over the last half century, it compares the findings for LAC with other regions. Second, the study investigates how infrastructure quality, education, and tariff levels affect export composition. Third, using an approach based on product proximity, it aims to predict changes in LAC’s future composition of exports. The study concludes that policies to upgrade human capital and infrastructure are essential for increasing LAC’s export share in high-skill products.","PeriodicalId":426783,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Trade Policy (Topic)","volume":"30 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126070494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Transport Costs on Vietnamese Textile Exports","authors":"T. Huong, P. Ha, N. Lan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2929937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2929937","url":null,"abstract":"Transport cost is a critical component that structure price of goods at destination points in international trade. This research explored and analysed transport cost and its impact on export by investigating the relationship between transport cost and export of textile (a specific sector) in Vietnam (a developing country) from 2012 to 2014.","PeriodicalId":426783,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Trade Policy (Topic)","volume":"76 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117201426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can the UK Stay in the UPC System after Brexit?","authors":"Ansgar Ohly, R. Streinz","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2982305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2982305","url":null,"abstract":"Just when the European patent community finally expected the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPCA) and the Unitary Patent Regulation (UPR) to enter into force soon, the UK electorate voted in favour of “Brexit”. Among a host of other issues this raises the question of whether the UK can remain a contracting state of the UPCA after the country’s withdrawal from the UK and whether the effect of the UPR can be extended to the UK. We argue that both questions should be answered in the affirmative. Once the UK has ratified the UPCA, it will not have to accept either the supremacy of EU law or the possibility of preliminary references from the UPC to the CJEU by separate agreement.","PeriodicalId":426783,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Trade Policy (Topic)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130543407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hull Ideology on Trade Multilateralisation and the Doha Round Conundrum","authors":"N. Anozie","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3009288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3009288","url":null,"abstract":"Cordell Hull’s suggestion for trade multilateralization upon which GATT/WTO may have derived its de facto negotiation structure was based fundamentally on the agreement of “commercial nations”. A term which in practice was defined to exclude some States most of which are developing and less industrialized. While most of the agreements were perceived to be in favour of the developed and industrialized States, developing States were made to be bound by the agreements despite their objections. This papers, through a historical analysis of the negotiations within the GATT/WTO system, argues that this restrictive definition of “commercial nations” and the resultant feeling by developing States that the legal framework of the system disfavours them contribute to the current stagnation witnessed in the Doha Round. This paper suggests in conclusion that for a resolution of the conundrum, there is need for an all-inclusive trade agreement based on an altruistic disposition towards trade liberalization, and built to facilitate the principle of comparative advantage.","PeriodicalId":426783,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Trade Policy (Topic)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129964842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"نحو استراتيجية لتنمية صادرات الصناعات الصغيرة والمتوسطة فى مصر (Toward Strategy for the development of small and medium industries exports in Egypt)","authors":"Hussein Elasrag","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2833037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2833037","url":null,"abstract":"Arabic Abstract: يهدف هذا البحث لالقاء الضوء على اهم اركان بناء استراتيجية لتعزيز القدرة التنافسية للمشروعات الصغيرة والمتوسطة فى مصر،من خلال:1 القاء الضوء على واقع الصناعات الصغيرة والمتوسطة فى مصر. 2 دراسة وتحليل أهم عقبات التصدير التي ت واجهها الصناعات الصغيرة والمتوسطة . 3 التوصية بأهم السياسات التى تعزز القدرة التنافسية لصادرات الصناعات الصغيرة والمتوسطة فى مصر.Engish Abstract: The aim of the research is to shed light on the most important elements of building a strategy to enhance the competitiveness of small and medium-sized projects in Egypt, through:1 shed light on the reality of the small and medium industries in Egypt. 2 shed light on the most important export obstacles facing small and medium-sized industries. 3 policy recommendations to enhance the export competitiveness of small and medium industries in Egypt.","PeriodicalId":426783,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Trade Policy (Topic)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121171620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Export Marketing in Transition Economies: Case Studies from Kosovo","authors":"Visar Rrustemi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2832972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2832972","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the state, barriers, challenges and perspective of implementing the export marketing in Kosovo through a number of case studies by using the methodology of target sample survey, which to some extent can make generalizations. Like many developing countries, Kosovo faces a huge trade deficit. While researchers in generally tend to focus on macroeconomic policies to find the causes of deficit in foreign trade and the government undertakes reforms to improve the balance by boosting export, the largest part of the game often has to be played by the companies themselves under whatever macroeconomic actual policies at home and abroad. This is what the findings from this paper suggest when exploring the level and forms of export marketing in the surveyed companies. Although the companies engage in different export marketing activities, none of them reported any prepared marketing strategy in this respect. Instead, they still consider export marketing, which they use as synonymous with international marketing, to be part of their overall marketing strategy and export within department for export. What appears that they need more, is a merger or specialization of these two (export and marketing) into one separate department or the export marketing.","PeriodicalId":426783,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Trade Policy (Topic)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121782919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}