Recent decades have witnessed a surge of trade in intermediate goods and a proliferation
of free trade agreements (FTAs). FTAs use rules of origin (RoO) to distinguish goods …

Firms in regional trade areas choose whether to comply with rules of origin (RoO) or pay a
tariff penalty. Stricter content requirements initially expand regional part sourcing, but …

When a country grants preferential tariffs to another, either reciprocally in a free trade
agreement (FTA) or unilaterally, rules of origin (RoOs) are defined to determine whether a …

This paper studies the impact of input-trade liberalization on firms' decision to upgrade
foreign technology embodied in imported capital goods. Our empirical analysis is motivated …

This article assesses how the utilization of trade agreements responds to rules of origin
revisions that allow for more foreign content in exported products. Using the revision of the …

This article discusses the deadlock in the WTO on multilateral harmonization of
nonpreferential rules of origin (RoO) and reviews some of the RoO included in recent …

This article uses panel data with 6,743 country-year observations to investigate the effects of
participation in the global value chain (GVC) on export survival rate for the period 2005 …

This paper examines the Association of Southeast Asian Nations'(ASEAN) role in the
formation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement. The …

Internationally fragmented production processes have highlighted the need of efficient
sourcing from foreign suppliers. This paper aims to investigate how exports of final goods …

In countries where there exist limited opportunities to source inputs locally, rules of origin
undermine access to preferential trade agreements for final goods exporters. I analyze the …