Do trade flows respond to nudges? Evidence from the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Mechanism

Kuenzel, David J.

doi:10.1111/roie.12394

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“…In explaining the existence of TPRB, Kuenzel (2019) asserted that the TPRB Review could not be qualified as a product that effectively contributes to the reviewed member. The Annex 3A of the WTO Agreements confirms it by stipulating that: Therefore, this article confirmed that the TPRM, through its TPRB, could not enforce specific obligations of the WTO Agreements to a reviewed member; in this case, the AoA's obligations to Indonesia.…”

Section: Indonesia's Trade Policy In the Agricultural Sector: Between...mentioning

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Indonesian Trade Policy in Adjusting the 2020 WTO’s Trade Policy Review

Simbolon¹,

Damayanti²

2023

JHI

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This article analyzes the Trade Policy Review Body (TPRB) review of Indonesia in 2020, mainly in the agricultural sector, and how Indonesian compliance with the WTO Agreement is helpful for the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM). This study uses the normative method by gathering primary and secondary legal sources. The 2020 TPRB review perceives that Indonesia has applied untransparent safeguard measures related to its agricultural products, prohibited subsidies, and quantitative restrictions on other WTO member states. However, the Job Creation Law, launched in 2020, can be viewed as a proportional law as it puts imported products in an equivalent position with domestic agriculture or food products. The discussions reveal that Law No 11/2020 aims to balance its national interest with the WTO Agreement and the TPRB review of Indonesian trade policy, mainly in agriculture. With such legal certainty, this article recommends that Indonesia consider the TPRB review in good faith by invoking transparent safeguards, reducing its export subsidies on agricultural products, conducting a persistent report to the Committee on Agriculture, and protecting its public health and morals. The Indonesian government should also conduct text mining to determine its trade policies and deal with international trade uncertainty.

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Indonesian Trade Policy in Adjusting the 2020 WTO’s Trade Policy Review

Simbolon¹,

Damayanti²

2023

JHI

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“…A recent paper on trade policy reviews (TPRs) by Karlas and Parízek (2019) shows that TPRs see active participation by members accounting, on average, for more than 95% of the reviewed members' trade volume. Another research from Kuenzel (2019) shows that interactions between Members at TPR meetings lead to subsequent higher bilateral trade flows, when countries involved are not too large. This paper focuses on the review process in the Committee on Agriculture (CoA) for two reasons: First, the CoA covers an area of negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda.…”

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The value of the Committee on Agriculture

2020

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What is the value of the WTO Committee on Agriculture? How much trade do countries talk about at the WTO? Do low-income countries participate less than they should in the work of the Committee? How important are issues not covered by notifications? What are the most important issues on which to focus negotiations?In this paper, we attempt to answer these questions building and analysing a new database. WTO regular bodies and the Secretariat collect information on measures notified and concerns raised by members on these measures in text format. We transform the qualitative database maintained through the AG-IMS into a quantitative one. We first introduce a new methodology to associate each question to a product and to its HS 4-digit code. Then, we attempt to match each of the 5'526 questions asked between 1996 and 2016 to the bilateral flows of the corresponding questioner and respondent at the HS 4-digit level. Our working dataset relies on the 3'295 questions that we are able to match.Using this new database, we show that (i) questions covered at least $778 billion of agricultural trade over the period 1996-2016 (or 3% of total trade in agriculture); (ii) on average, when a Member receives a question the questioners account for 48 per cent of its trade in the main product concerned; (iii) for each Member/product the share of trade discussed in the Committee is correlated with its share of global trade in agriculture; (iv) questions related to subsidies and to non-notified measures cover an increasing amount of trade.

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Do trade flows respond to nudges? Evidence from the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Mechanism

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References 67 publications

Indonesian Trade Policy in Adjusting the 2020 WTO’s Trade Policy Review

Indonesian Trade Policy in Adjusting the 2020 WTO’s Trade Policy Review

The value of the Committee on Agriculture

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