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THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE JOURNAL Volume XVIII Tables of Contents Volume XVIII, Issue 1 Reciprocity Across Modes of Supply in the WTO: A Negotiating Formula Aaditya Mattoo and Marcelo Olarreaga U.S. Economic Sanctions: An Empirical Study Jiawen Yang, Hossein Askari, John Forrer, and Hildy Teegen Determinants of Economic Growth in the United States: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment Parviz Asheghian Volume XVIII, Issue 2 Economic Growth and the Balance of Payments Constraint: Implications for Cyprus’s Prospective EMU Membership Charalambos Pattichis Export Characteristics of Canadian Firms in the Commercial Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Industry Alan D. MacPherson Free Trade and Income Redistribution in Colombia Hugo Toledo Volume XVIII, Issue 3 Factor Reallocation Costs and Tests of the Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theory Teresa Beckham Gramm Trade and Technology Diffusion in Latin America Juan S. Blyde The Political Economy of Contingent Protection Donald Feaver and Kenneth Wilson A Reassessment of Aggregate Import Demand Function in the ASEAN-5: A Cointegration Analysis Tuck Cheong Tang Volume XVIII, Issue 4 Sri Lanka’s Experiment with Devaluation: VAR and ECM Analysis of the Exchange Rate Effects on Trade Balance and GDP Dakshina G. De Silva and Zhen Zhu Exports and Economic Growth in Bangladesh: Has Manufacturing Exports Become a New Engine of Export-Led Growth? Mohammad A. Hossain and Neil Dias Karunaratne A Gravity Study of the Proposed China-ASEAN Free Trade Area Benjamin A. Roberts Following page 354: Title Page to Volume XVIII Tables of Contents to Volume XVIII Author Index to Volume XVIII