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- WTO Chief Says Trade Deal Still Possible in 2008
- PARIS (Reuters) - It is still possible to reach a deal on long-delayed world trade negotiations before the end of the year, the head of the World Trade Organisation said in an interview published on Tuesday. "There are the political and technical conditions...
- News items 2008-05-13
- Antigua v. the U.S. -- Place Your Bets (But Not Online)
- In 2003 the U.S. picked a fight with the tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda. We're now two rounds in and things are looking a little dicey for America. What's all this about? Online gambling. Who's the Ref? The WTO. When Congress passed a ban...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- Aid-for-Trade Concept Paper and Timeline for 2006
- The Hong Kong Declaration endorsed efforts to enhance the Integrated Framework (IF) and it created a new WTO work programme on Aid-for-Trade that aims "To help developing countries, particularly LDCs, to build the supply-side capacity and trade-related infrastructure that they need to assist them to implement and benefit from WTO...
- White papers 2006-01-17
- A Negotiating History of Customs Valuation in the GATT and WTO
- A specific tariff determines the tariff at the border by placing the amount in relation to the quantity of the good imported; perhaps the tariff might be a certain amount of dollars per bottle of wine or a certain amount of Euro per ton of steel. These types of tariffs...
- White papers 2005-11-18
- Telecommunications and the WTO: The Case of Mexico
- The U.S.-Mexico case (2002-04) was the first (and so far only) case of World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute resolution on telecommunications services and the first on services only. The findings of the Panel charged with settling the dispute contain interpretations of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), especially...
- White papers 2005-10-20
- GATT/ WTO and the IPR Regime
- It is possible to illustrate with two very basic examples how the Uruguay GATT round has been impervious to the needs of developing countries while securing the interests of the industrialised nations. A fundamental quid pro quo between the developing and developing nations should have been the granting of labour...
- White papers 2005-10-10
- Introduction and Summary to the Handbook of Trade Policy and WTO Accession for Development in Russia and the CIS
- This paper is the introduction and summary chapter of the 43 chapter volume entitled Handbook of Trade Policy and WTO Accession for Development in Russia and the CIS. The key policy conclusions of each of the chapters are highlighted in this paper. This paper first explains the potential importance of...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- The Social Impact of a WTO Agreement in Indonesia
- The objective of this study is to help identify ways in which the Doha Development Agenda might contribute to further poverty reduction in Indonesia. To provide a good technical basis for answering this question, the authors use an approach that combines a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model with a microsimulation...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Poverty Impacts of a WTO Agreement: Synthesis and Overview
- This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda (DDA). It combines in a novel way the results from several strands of research. Intensive analysis of the DDA Framework Agreement pays particularly close attention to potential reforms...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Challenges and Prospects for the WTO
- In this paper, the authors examine the nature of the exception for Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) under Article XXIV:5 of GATT 1994. This exception, which aims to maximise the internal trade-liberalising effects of an RTA while minimising its external trade-restricting effects, applies specifically to measures adopted upon the formation of...
- White papers 2005-09-20
- WTO: The Road to Hong Kong
- At the end of this year, delegates will convene in Hong Kong for the WTO's next ministerial. This article will not only bring you up to speed in three minutes, it may give you reason to hope that the future for globalization, growth and equity looks brighter than it has...
- White papers 2005-08-31
- Bilateral "WTO-Plus" Free Trade Agreements: The WTO Trade Policy Review of Singapore 2004
- The World Trade Organization's 2004 Trade Policy Review depicts the small and outward-oriented economy as one of the most open country to international trade and investment. The review highlights the benefits of the outward-oriented strategy that has enabled the economy to weather recent external shocks such as the Asian financial...
- White papers 2005-04-05
- Implementation in WTO Dispute Settlement: An Introduction to the Problems and Possible Solutions
- To assess the effectiveness of the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization (WTO), it is necessary to evaluate whether WTO members promptly take the actions required to bring themselves into compliance with their WTO obligations. In this paper, the operation of the WTO dispute settlement system is briefly...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Trade Remedies and world trade organization Dispute Settlement: Why Are so Few Challenged?
- Antidumping and related trade remedies are the most popular policy instruments that many of the largest importing countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) system use to restrict international trade. The paper provides a first empirical investigation of the trade remedy and WTO dispute settlement interaction by focusing on determinants...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Trade Policies in Central Asia After EU Enlargement and Before Russian WTO Accession: Regionalism and Integration Into the World Economy
- This paper analyses the choices between regionalism and multilateralism, and the impact of WTO membership on the five Central Asian countries. The two main sections analyzes: why the large number of regional trade agreements which the Central Asian countries have signed have had little economic impact, and the consequences for...
- White papers 2005-02-04
- Happy Birthday, WTO?
- Between 1992 and 2001, the number of small and midsize companies exporting grew nearly twice as fast as the number of large exporters, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Small and midsize companies now represent 97% of all firms that export goods and services, and they account for about...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- The Trade, Debt and Finance Nexus: At the Cross-Roads of Micro- and Macroeconomics
- Trade liberalization is only one facet of the opening up of developing countries to the global economy. After a couple of decades of financial deregulation, liberalization of private capital movement and accumulation of debt at the international level, developing countries are raising issues of, if not incompatibility, at least sequencing...
- White papers 2004-11-16
- The Global Textile and Clothing Industry Post the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing
- After more than forty years of import quotas, the textile and clothing sector will become subject to the general rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade from 1 January, 2005. The objective of this paper is to assess the likely impact of liberalization, taking into account recent technological...
- White papers 2004-11-15
- Designing a Pro-Active Stance for India in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations
- In this paper, author first summarizes the framework that has been agreed upon as the basis for the WTO Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations. It then discusses briefly the design and mission of the WTO and the economic effects of multilateral trade liberalization. Thereafter, it discusses the conditions for India's...
- White papers 2004-10-13
- Transparency In Government Procurement: What Can We Expect From International Trade Agreements?
- This discussion suggests that the major onus of efforts to improve transparency must be domestic - driven by a desire from society (taxpayers, suppliers) to combat corruption, and enforced through mechanisms that are domestic in nature: effective deterrents through ex post punishments that exceed the gains realized by officials and...
- White papers 2004-09-15
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