全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade: The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w5324
来源ID	Working Paper 5324
	Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade: The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks
	Tain-Jy Chen; Meng-chun Liu
发表日期	1995-10-01
出版年	1995
语种	英语
摘要	This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the outset is: does bilateralism enhance or jeopardize multilateralism? The U.S.-Taiwan experience seems to suggest a grossly negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market opening with the threat of unilateral trade sanctions (such as Section 301 action) tend to encourage trade preferences and U.S. negotiators are inclined to accept such preferential arrangements in areas where U.S. domestic interests are homogeneous and concentrated. Even in the case of tariff negotiations where any tariff concessions made by Taiwan are extended to other trading partners on an MFN basis, bilateralism does not necessarily enhance multilateral principles. The scope of tariff concessions made by Taiwan shows a strong bias in favor of the sectors in which the U.S. has a comparative advantage in Taiwan's market and the sectors in which U.S. domestic industries exhibit monopoly power. Meanwhile, U.S. commitments to GATT strengthen its position in bilateral negotiations and help persuade Taiwan, which is not a member of GATT, to make similar concessions.
主题	International Economics ; Trade
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w5324
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/562776
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