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Régionalisme dans les normes: bon ou mauvais pour le commerce ?
Author(s) -
Chen Maggie Xiaoyang,
Mattoo Aaditya
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.00488.x
Subject(s) - harmonization , regionalism (politics) , economics , international economics , regional trade , international trade , rules of origin , mutual recognition , trade barrier , world trade , panel data , technical barriers to trade , economic integration , free trade , political science , politics , econometrics , law , democracy , physics , acoustics
. Regional agreements on standards have been largely ignored by economists and blessed by multilateral trade rules. Using a constructed panel data that identifies the different types of agreements at the industry level, we find that such agreements increase the trade between participating countries but not necessarily with the rest of the world. Harmonization of standards may reduce the exports of excluded countries, especially in markets that have raised the stringency of standards. Mutual recognition agreements are more uniformly trade promoting unless they contain restrictive rules of origin, in which case intra‐regional trade increases at the expense of imports from other countries.