Michele Anzaldi, Robert Hunter Wade, Paul Bungert, BOYE BJERKHOLT, Michael Ticktin,
... started The G8's forgotten summit priority The CAFTA conundrum Trade Summit shenanigans The European Union Mob ...
2005 - Gale Group | The Economist
Mary Finley‐Brook, Katherine Hoyt,
... framing of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). The experience of the Stop CAFTA Coalition shows that protest movements cannot be fully ... Core coalition members began organizing decades prior to CAFTA’s proposal, generally on a topic other than ... decision to reject rather than attempt to reform CAFTA—since this was the position of their Central American partner organizations. A split between reforming CAFTA and more radically transforming free trade with the United States emerged as a fault line in CAFTA opposition, but solidarity groups maintained their anti-free- ...
Tópico(s): Communism, Protests, Social Movements
2009 - SAGE Publishing | Latin American Perspectives
Fei Nie, Jian Li, Xiang Bi, Gucheng Li,
... Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been recognized as a significant progress in ... liberalization on the domestic fertilizer use following the CAFTA. Using a combined dataset consisting of country- and ... 2015, this paper empirically examines the impact of CAFTA on the domestic fertilizer use for the exported ... control method to identify the aggregate impacts of CAFTA on the domestic fertilizer use, followed by the ... the implementation of the Early Harvest Program under CAFTA in 2004. This impact is more evident for ...
Tópico(s): International Development and Aid
2022 - Elsevier BV | Ecological Economics
... Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) and on March 1, 2006, it became the ... of trade agreements would likely agree that DR-CAFTA provides questionable advantages for the five Latin American ... as they already received most of the DR-CAFTA-related trade benefits through the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( ... an agreement? Understanding El Salvador's participation in CAFTA-DR is critical not only because it's ... vociferous supporter of the agreement but because DR-CAFTA demonstrates the consolidation of the country's previously ...
Tópico(s): Economic Theory and Policy
2009 - Brill | Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
... paper examines the determinants of Congressional voting on CAFTA, focusing on environmental lobbying. Empirical results indicate that ... not a major point of contention during the CAFTA vote. Campaign contributions were, however, an important factor ... with no contributions from labor or business, the CAFTA would not have passed. Employment in the sensitive sectors of CAFTA, sugar and textiles, were also critical in affecting ... analysis was the effect of income on the CAFTA vote – poorer districts favored the agreement.
Tópico(s): Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
2008 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Economic Policy Reform
... US textile industry with a consideration of DR‐CAFTA as an opportunity to establish responsive supply chain ... US Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. Findings DR‐CAFTA countries constitute the only remaining region that the ... it is suggested that the implementation of DR‐CAFTA should focus on: streamlining the rules of origin, ... and coordinating custom procedures; financing options for DR‐CAFTA countries' procurement of fabrics and other raw materials ... and textile companies, Asian textile manufacturers, and DR‐CAFTA apparel manufacturers for fashion basics. Originality/value This ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Industries and Urban Development
2007 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management
Gregory T. Chin, Richard Stubbs,
... in promoting a China–ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA). The first section examines the specific combination of ... key intervention from Chinese policymakers that triggered the CAFTA process. The second section outlines the details of the CAFTA negotiations, analyzing the feedback effects that shaped the path and eventual outcomes of the CAFTA Agreement. Attention is given to China's initiation ... early harvest' agreements that were added to the CAFTA Agreement Framework in order to help persuade the ...
Tópico(s): Asian Industrial and Economic Development
2010 - Routledge | Review of International Political Economy
Corinna Hawkes, Anne Marie Thow,
... the Central America-Dominican Republic-Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) on food consumption patterns associated with the ... and diet-related chronic diseases. METHODS: Examination of CAFTA-DR agreement to identify measures that have the ... to affect food availability and retail prices. RESULTS: CAFTA-DR includes agreements on tariffs, tariff-rate quotas ( ... by the transnational food industry. Trade liberalization under CAFTA-DR is likely to increase availability and lower ... due to a more competitive market environment). CONCLUSIONS: CAFTA-DR is likely to further the nutrition transition ...
Tópico(s): Global trade and economics
2008 - Pan American Health Organization | Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Huanguang Qiu, Jun Yang, Jikun Huang, Ruijian Chen,
... impact of the China‐ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) on China's international agricultural trade and its ... Decision Support System. Our analysis showed that: (i) CAFTA will improve resource allocation efficiencies for both China ... on the economic development of both sides; (ii) CAFTA will accelerate China's export of the agricultural ... such as vegetable oil and sugar; and (iii) CAFTA will have significantly varying impacts on China's ... and eastern regions of China will benefit from CAFTA, whereas agriculture development in southern China will suffer. ...
Tópico(s): World Trade Organization Law
2007 - Wiley | China & World Economy
M. Ayhan Köse, Alessandro Rebucci,
... impact of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) on macroeconomic fluctuations in Central America in light of Mexico's NAFTA experience. CAFTA and NAFTA share a number of common characteristics ... cycles. The findings in this paper suggest that CAFTA could also result in similar effects. In particular, CAFTA could boost trade and financial flows between the ...
Tópico(s): Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
2005 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Asian Economics
Jaime Granados, Rafael Cornejo,
... and six countries in Latin America, the DR‐CAFTA consolidates a set of trade arrangements among those ... of broader hemispheric‐wide negotiations since the DR‐CAFTA is in fact a microcosm of the spaghetti ... convergence techniques and approaches used in the DR‐CAFTA, in particular in the areas of market access ...
Tópico(s): International Development and Aid
2006 - Wiley | World Economy
... Republic. This FTA is commonly referred to as CAFTA-DR and includes a chapter on labour standards. ... effects of the inclusion of labour standards in CAFTA-DR have been limited and therefore should be ... the subject of a complaints procedure under the CAFTA-DR. It is maintained that this lack of ... is the weakness of the labour chapter of CAFTA-DR resulting from the fact that the chapter ...
Tópico(s): Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
2015 - Cogitatio | Politics and Governance
Qian Zeng, John Adams, Andrew Gibbs,
... Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Free Trade Area (CAFTA) in terms of its economic, social, cultural status ... have interpreted the Bologna Process differently. For the CAFTA, higher education is facing more severe challenges compared ... simply be desirable but also essential for the CAFTA. Moreover, the common mission of increasing the tertiary ... stage. Although the current situation indicates that the CAFTA should launch such an educational reform, concrete steps ...
Tópico(s): Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Educational Review
... entry into the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) was hotly contested and the subject of a ... raised by the treaty, as one requirement of CAFTA was signing the international Convention on Plant Variety ... the story of Costa Rica's engagement with CAFTA and UPOV, I contemplate the broader effects of ...
Tópico(s): Organic Food and Agriculture
2012 - University of Arizona | Journal of Political Ecology
... 2004 of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). The article explores the arguments concerning the development of CAFTA-DR and social citizenship, exemplified by labour rights. The article situates the making of CAFTA-DR in the context of historical attempts to ... signing of the agreement. The article concludes that CAFTA-DR has generated new possibilities for social citizenship ...
Tópico(s): International Development and Aid
2007 - SAGE Publishing | Global Social Policy
Jessica E. Todd, Paul Winters, Diego Arias,
The net benefits of CAFTA and their distribution among sectors of the economy and social groups are major concerns of policy makers in Central America. ... these objectives. It is important to note that CAFTA has not been ratified yet by all congresses ... this paper we assume that all will ratify CAFTA as it stands today.
Tópico(s): Economic Theory and Policy
2004 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Alessandro Rebucci, M. Ayhan Köse,
... potential impact of theCentral America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) on macroeconomic fluctuations in Central America in light of Mexico’s NAFTA experience. CAFTA and NAFTA share a number of common characteristics ... cycles. The findings in this paper suggest that CAFTA could also result in similar effects. In particular, CAFTA could boost trade and financial flows between the ...
Tópico(s): Global trade and economics
2004 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... the extensive margin before the formal establishment of CAFTA (China–ASEAN Free Trade Area) in 2010 to the intensive margin since the formal establishment of CAFTA, but changes in Chinese agricultural exports to ASEAN ... the intensive margin. Since the formal establishment of CAFTA, the evolution pattern of Chinese agricultural exports to ...
Tópico(s): World Trade Organization Law
2018 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Integrative Agriculture
Gabriele Spilker, Thomas Bernauer, In Song Kim, Helen V. Milner, Iain Osgood, Dustin Tingley,
... Republic–Central America–United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) and exporting firms based in Costa Rica ... of our study suggest that the effects of CAFTA-DR depend not only on whether we analyze ... as textiles, gain from trade agreements, such as CAFTA-DR, in that they can export more varieties ...
Tópico(s): World Trade Organization Law
2018 - Springer Science+Business Media | The Review of International Organizations
Dinorah Frutos-Bencze, Kanix Bukkavesa, Nat Kulvanich,
... the Central American Free Trade Agreement–Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR) between 1979 and 2010. Our model is ... the current GDP per capita values for all CAFTA-DR member countries. This is an encouraging trend ...
Tópico(s): Environmental Impact and Sustainability
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Applied Economics Letters
Stacey Frederick, Jennifer Bair, Gary Gereffi,
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been a mixed blessing for economic development. While exports to the US economy have increased, dependency may hinder economic growth if ... Tariff Preference Levels (TPLs) granted to Nicaragua under CAFTA and the consequences of TPL expiration. Using trade ...
Tópico(s): Economic Zones and Regional Development
2015 - Oxford University Press | Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
Raymond Hicks, Helen V. Milner, Dustin Tingley,
... influenced Costa Rican voters in a referendum on CAFTA-DR, an international trade agreement. We find little ... influenced voters and this made the difference for CAFTA-DR passage. Politics, namely parties using their organizational ...
Tópico(s): Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
2013 - Oxford University Press | International Studies Quarterly
... cooperation and good-neighbourly relations. From this perspective, CAFTA, initiated by China within the framework of ASEAN ... to leverage itself internationally. For most Chinese scholars, CAFTA seems to have ensured that while China claims ...
Tópico(s): International Relations and Foreign Policy
2013 - Brill | European Journal of East Asian Studies
Abstract The process of ratifying CAFTA in Costa Rica required traversing a contentious political landscape involving intense legislative battles, massive public demonstrations, and finally a national referendum ... equipping voters to make informed choices, resolving the CAFTA conflict in a way viewed as legitimate, and ...
Tópico(s): International Development and Aid
2012 - Cambridge University Press | Latin American Politics and Society
J. Edward Taylor, Antonio Yúñez Naude, Nancy Jesurun‐Clements,
... for under the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), using a disaggregated rural economy‐wide model nesting ... is positive in most cases, implying that pre‐CAFTA agricultural protection policies are disadvantageous for most rural ...
Tópico(s): Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
2010 - Wiley | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
... Central America, the Dominican Republic and the US (CAFTA–DR). Not only was it the country's ... referendum it thus remains doubtful if and when CAFTA–DR will be fully implemented.
Tópico(s): Politics and Society in Latin America
2009 - Taylor & Francis | Representation
Suwen Pan, Mark Welch, Samarendu Mohanty, Mohamadou L. Fadiga, Don E. Ethridge,
... Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (US-CAFTA-DR) on the world fiber market using a ... Caribbean region gain approximately $80 million under US-CAFTA-DR while gains by the U.S. yarn ... loses about $40 million per year under US-CAFTA-DR. Notes 1The terms “Region” (following CitationGelb, 2005) and “CAFTA countries” will be used to refer to the ... and the Dominican Republic who have signed US-CAFTA-DR. 2For the purposes of this article, we ... more complete comparison of the provisions of US-CAFTA-DR to CBTPA that affect the apparel industry, ...
Tópico(s): Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
2008 - Taylor & Francis | The International Trade Journal
... on Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) members' apparel exports to the United States. ... computable general equilibrium (CGE) model show that improving CAFTA-DR garment producers' textile raw material access would ... States and increase the export volume. However, improving CAFTA-DR garment producers' textile raw material access would primarily benefit Asian textile suppliers but result in CAFTA-DR members' reduced dependence on the U.S. ... debate on expanding U.S. apparel sourcing from CAFTA-DR members from a unique supply chain perspective.
Tópico(s): Global Trade and Competitiveness
2023 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of the Textile Institute
... US and China), China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) now plays a prominent role in many aspects. ... paper, we investigate how import tariff reduction in CAFTA affects the importers’ pollution emissions, using the firm- ... 2007. The mechanisms of import tariff reduction in CAFTA on pollution emissions are divided into technique, composition ... Our results indicate that import tariff reduction in CAFTA on final goods is conductive to importers’ pollution ...
Tópico(s): Global trade and economics
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sustainability
... the signing of China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). This paper describes the rapid economic relations between ... government since 2003 as an experimental arrangement of CAFTA will be revaluated.
Tópico(s): Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
2013 - Scientific Research Publishing | Chinese Studies