Trade dispute
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Research problems linked to this topic
- To what extent are trade remedies effective in protecting domestic production and employment? How regionally specific is this relationship?
- What is the relationship between easing and removing foreign investment restrictions and export performance bilaterally?
- How can the impact of cross-chapter provisions on dispute settlement mechanisms in trade agreements be effectively evaluated?
- What approaches can best measure injury to domestic producers from imports, in the context of targeting trade remedies? How can the direct and wider impacts of trade remedies be measured, including across sectors, regions and supply chains?
- How could the WTO dispute settlement process be improved to better serve all member states?
- How can we best evaluate the impact of non-tariff, regulatory measures to trade in goods, including technical barriers to trade and sanitary and phytosanitary measures?
- What insights does the academic literature provide on the economics of trade remedies, and issues that have arisen in recent World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes, including subsidies and market distortions?
- What are the wider impacts associated with trade remedy measures, beyond firms directly affected?
- What are the most effective dispute settlement mechanisms within trade agreements? What scope is there for innovation?
- Which methods and modelling approaches can best be used to inform trade dispute cases? How can the harm caused by incompliant measures and associated retaliation rights best be estimated?
- What bilateral or multilateral engagement is most effective in preventing country-to-country disputes from being lodged?
- To what extent do business strategies include exporting as a means of achieving business growth? How does this vary by business characteristics?
- To what extent are trade remedies – applied under WTO agreements and bilaterally as part of free trade agreements – effective in achieving their stated objectives. How do they affect trade flows (including where jurisdictions adopt different duties)?
- Using regional and local studies, what is the impact of export finance services on localised markets? How does export finance services support regional growth and development?
- What conclusions can be drawn from patterns of anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard activity in previous business cycles? What lessons emerge from COVID-19 and recovery?