Subsidy determination, benchmarks and adverse inferences : assessing ‘benefit' in US – coated paper (Indonesia)
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/76, Global Governance Programme-366, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: This paper presents a legal-economic analysis of key aspects of the WTO Panel Report involving a challenge by Indonesia against the anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed by the US on [...]
Make or buy : offshoring of services functions in manufacturing
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/90, Global Governance Programme-376, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: About 40% of employment in manufacturing is in services functions. This paper develops a measure of narrow outsourcing, matching services functions performed by workers inside manufacturing firms to the same [...]
Deep trade agreements and global value chains
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/86, Global Governance Programme-374, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) have become deeper over time, often encompassing a set of disciplines that go beyond traditional trade policy such as investment, competition, and intellectual property rights protection. [...]
Made in the world revisited
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/84, Global Governance Programme-373, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: In the last decade, the concept of ‘global value chain’ (GVC) has become popular to describe the way firms fragment production into different stages located in different economies. The ‘made [...]
The gravity of intermediate goods
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/87, Global Governance Programme-375, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: One of the puzzles of the gravity literature is the persistent effect of distance on trade flows, despite the dramatic fall in trade costs during the last few decades (Disdier [...]
Baptists and bootleggers in the biodiesel trade : EU-biodiesel (Indonesia)
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/80, Global Governance Programme-369, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: EU-Biodiesel (Indonesia) is the latest in two lines of cases. On the one hand, the case offers yet another example of the Dispute Settlement Body striking down creative interpretations of [...]
Expired measures, excess duty drawbacks and causation : the Appellate Body report in EU – PET (Pakistan)
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/81, Global Governance Programme-370, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: The Appellate Body report in EU – PET (Pakistan) raises distinct questions relating to the need for findings in relation to expired measures, the conditions under which duty drawback schemes [...]
Reopening pandora’s box in search of a WTO-compatible industrial policy? : The Brazil – taxation dispute
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/82, Global Governance Programme-371, Global Economics
- Abstract: We critically assess the Appellate Body (AB) report on the Brazil-Taxation dispute, taken to the World Trade Organisation by the European Union and Japan, and encompassing seven different Brazilian industrial [...]
“Flying high in a plane” appellate body report, European communities and certain member states : measures affecting trade in large civil aircraft (WT/DS316/AB/RW)
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/78, Global Governance Programme-368, Global Economics
- Abstract: This article reviews the Appellate Body decision in the implementation phase of the EC – Aircraft dispute. Focusing on some of the key findings, we assess whether they are legally [...]
Indonesia – safeguard on certain iron or steel products : if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is not a duck
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/83, Global Governance Programme-372, Global Economics
- Abstract: In July 2014 Indonesia implemented a safeguard tariff on galvalume, a type of galvanized flat-rolled steel. Chinese Taipei and Viet Nam challenged the measure, mainly claiming that Indonesia’s administering authority [...]
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