World Bank Deep Trade Agreements Database

While multilateral trade negotiations have stagnated and tensions between major players have risen, bilateral and regional agreements appear to have run away with the trade agenda. Today, there are more than 300 agreements, compared to 50 in 1990. More importantly, many of these agreements have expanded their scope far beyond tariffs and aim to achieve integration beyond trade or “deep” integration. A new e-book from the World Bank and CEPR focuses on the determinants of deep trade agreements, their impact on trade and non-trade outcomes, and how they could shape trade relations in a post-COVID-19 world. Abman, R, C Lundberg and M Ruta (2021), “The Effectiveness of Environmental Regulations in Regional Trade Agreements,” World Bank Working Paper 9601, 16 on Policy Research. Why deep trade agreements can shape post-COVID-19 tradeAaditya Mattoo, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta Fontagné, L, N Rocha, M Ruta and G Santoni (2021), “A general equilibrium assessment of the economic impact of deep trade agreements, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9630. Baccini, L, M Fiorini, B Hoekman, C Altomonte und I Colantone (2021), “Global value chains and deep integration,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9598. 12. Der Spillover-Effekt tiefer Handelsabkommen auf chinesische Staatsunternehmen Kevin Lefebvre, Nadia Rocha und Michele Ruta 10.

Scoping Dienstleistungs-Handelsabkommen: Was wirklich zähltIngo Borchert und Mattia Di Ubaldo 2. Quantifying the impact of deep trade agreements: A general equilibrium approachLionel Fontagne, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta, and Gianluca Santoni Fernandes, A M, K Lefebvre, and N Rocha (2021), « Heterogeneous impacts of SPS and TBT regulations: firm-level evidence from deep trade agreements », Document de travail 9700 de la Banque mondiale sur la recherche sur les politiques. Ce projet fournit des données et des analyses sur le contenu des accords commerciaux approfondis. 8. Trade Facilitation Provisions in Deep Trade Agreements: Impact on Peruvian ExportersWoori Lee, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta This CEPR World Bank e-book brings together leading international trade experts from academia and political institutions to provide new analysis on the determinants of Deep Trade Agreements, their impact on business and non-commercial outcomes and how they could shape trade relations in a post-COVID-19 world. to deliver. 1. Database for incoming trade agreements 1.0 (horizontal depth) 9. Heterogeneous impacts of sanitary, phytosanitary and technical barriers to trade: an enterprise-level overview of deep trade agreementsAna Margarida Fernandes, Kevin Lefebvre and Nadia Rocha 15th trade agreements with environmental provisions mitigate deforestationRyan Abman, Clark Lundberg and Michele Ruta 14. Deep integration into trade agreements: labour clauses, tariffs and trade flowsRaymond Robertson 6.

Meredith A. Crowley, Lu Han and Thomas Prayer Introduction: The Economy of Deep Trade AgreementsAna Margarida Fernandes, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta Breinlich, H, V Corradi, N Rocha, M Ruta, J M C Santos Silva and T Zylkin (2021), “Machine Learning in International Trade Research – Assessing the Impact of Trade Agreements”, World Bank Working Paper 9629 on Policy Research. This database contains detailed information on the content of a subsample of eighteen of the most frequently addressed policy areas in a series of 283 agreements currently notified to the WTO between 1958 and 2017. For each agreement, the database covers the stated objectives and substantive obligations, as well as aspects related to transparency, procedures and enforcement. This database represents the most comprehensive effort in terms of coverage of policy areas and the granularity of information in each area. This database is the result of cooperation with scientific experts and other international organizations such as ITC, OECD, UNCTAD and WTO. 7. The impact of preferential trade agreements on the duration of anti-dumping protectionThomas J. Prusa, and Min Zhu Crowley, M A, L Han, and T Prayer (2021), “The value of deep trade agreements in the presence of pricing-to-market,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9600. 13. How preferential trade agreements with strict intellectual property provisions affect tradeThe Keith E. Maskus and William Ridley Deep Trade agreements are reciprocal agreements between countries that cover not only trade, but also other policy areas such as international investment and labour flows, and the protection of intellectual property rights and the environment.

Although these agreements are still called trade agreements, their goal is integration beyond trade or deep integration. Deep trade agreements are important for economic development. The rules embedded in DTAs, as well as multilateral trade rules and other elements of international economic law such as bilateral investment treaties, influence how countries (and thus the people and companies who live and operate there) act, invest, work and, ultimately, develop. Trade and investment regimes determine the level of economic integration, competition rules influence economic efficiency, intellectual property rights are important for innovation, and environmental and labour regulations contribute to environmental and social outcomes. This database provides the tools to analyse these new dimensions of integration in order to better identify the content and consequences of DTAs. Preferential trade agreements have always been a feature of the global trading system, but they have gained in importance in recent years. The number of TPAs increased from 50 in the early 1990s to about 300 in 2019. All WTO Members currently participate in at least one and often several APAs.

APTs have broadened their scope. While the average PTA covered 8 policy areas in the 1950s, it averaged 17 in recent years. To assess the content of the Deep Trade Agreements, the following datasets were created: This dataset maps the coverage of 52 selected policy areas in 279 APAs notified to the WTO between 1958 and 2015. It also contains information on the legal applicability of each policy area. .