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Trade and Competition: Frictions after the Uruguay Round

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With the gradual dismantling of tariffs and the growing integration of markets across countries, non-tariff and non-border barriers to international trade, investment and competition have become more visible, a greater source of trade tensions and costly with regard to the foregone global benefits of increased efficiency. In many OECD and non-OECD economies, market regulations were not designed with a view to their international ramifications, and domestic policies in the domain of trade, competition and investment, with few exceptions, take little account of international repercussions of non-border obstacles to the functioning of markets. Against this background, this paper examines the main issues underlying the current discussion of trade, investment and competition policy interactions, and the scope for further international co-operation ... Le démantèlement graduel des tarifs et l’intégration croissante des marchés entre les différents pays, ont rendu beaucoup plus visibles les barrières non douanières et non tarifaires au commerce international, aux investissements et à la concurrence, constituant une source plus importante de tensions commerciales coûteuses comparées au bénéfice global attendu d’une efficacité accrue. Dans beaucoup de pays tant membres que non membres de l’OCDE, les réglementations des marchés ont été élaborées sans considération de leurs ramifications internationales, et, à quelques exceptions près, les politiques nationales dans les domaines des échanges, de la concurrence et de l’investissement n’ont que très peu tenu compte des répercussions internationales des obstacles non douaniers au fonctionnement des marchés. Face à cette situation, ce document examine les principales questions sous jacentes aux discussions actuelles sur lesinteractions entre les échanges, les investissements et la ...

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  • Oecd, 1996. "Trade and Competition: Frictions after the Uruguay Round," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 165, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:165-en
    DOI: 10.1787/448346818265
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    1. Finger, J. Michael, 1998. "GATT experience with safeguards - making economic and political sense of the possibilities that the GATT allows to restrict imports," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2000, The World Bank.
    2. Keith Maskus, 1998. "The international regulation of intellectual property," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer;Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), vol. 134(2), pages 186-208, June.
    3. Devereux, Michael B. & Min Lee, Khang, 1999. "Endogenous trade policy and the gains from international financial markets," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 43(1), pages 35-59, February.
    4. Herrmann-Pillaih Carsten, 1999. "Über Handelswiderstände," ORDO. Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, De Gruyter, vol. 50(1), pages 431-472, January.
    5. Finger,J. Michael & Francis Ng & Wangchuk, Sonam, 2001. "Antidumping as safeguard policy," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2730, The World Bank.

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