and the impartiality of its adjudicators. Yet compared to other international tribunals, WTO members exert considerable … political control over WTO adjudicators. Contestation over appointments of adjudicators also reflects governments’ awareness … the WTO has long been taken for granted. Our findings suggest that such trust is largely warranted, yet that even small …

The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) has been predicted to bring about an expansion in trade flows and real …

More than 110 Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), many of them developing countries and least …-governmental coordination and international cooperation on investment matters. In view of the fact that WTO Members aim at concluding the … context of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), we lack insights into how such needs assessments can be operationalised …

apply the notion of Regulatory Ritualism to Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration 2001 and to subsequent WTO General Council …

This paper addresses the issue of export licensing procedures in the WTO context. It aims to contribute to the … understanding of the existing rules applicable to export licensing in the WTO, and what the development of specific disciplines … specific rules on export licensing in the GATT and in the WTO, the existing WTO rules applicable to export and import licensing …

this paper, the focus is to understand the status of consumers in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). As part of this …, primarily the paper analyses various agreements of the WTO and consumer-related disputes that were brought before the dispute … settlement body (DSB) of the WTO to understand the extent of protection afforded to the consumer in this trade forum. Secondly …

WTO has taken upon itself the role of creating minimum standards of intellectual property and interpreting the same with … unilateral trade sanctions to free trade agreements which ignore the WTO thus calling for concerted efforts to restore the …

level. We further quantify the welfare effect associated with labor reallocation after China joined the WTO in 2001. The …

Is the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its rules-based system capable of addressing the distortions in trade caused … by the explosive growth of China’s State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)? If it is, why hasn’t it been put to use? If the WTO … joined the WTO and the relevance of the applicable WTO rules, Between Market Economy and State Capitalism: China’s State …