For many years now, lack of progress in multilateral trade negotiations has been a major cause of concern among WTO members. With diversity in the economic situation of members and differences in their stages of development, delay in concluding trade agreements is inevitable. However, the...

For many years now, lack of progress in multilateral trade negotiations has been a major cause of concern among WTO members. With diversity in the economic situation of members and differences in their stages of development, delay in concluding trade agreements is inevitable. However, the...

After almost a decade of negotiations, the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Partnership Agreement finally came into force in July 2020. Under the current global economic condition, and particularly with the global trade disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the IA-CEPA partnership came at...

The new round of multilateral negotiations ("Round") opened in Doha in 2001, stalled and was unable to achieve a final agreement, which, in all cases, should not be readily ratified by the US Congress. This delay is mainly due to the changing environment which is sometimes a consequence of the...

Motivated by the current delay in WTO negotiations, we consider a model of a bilateral trade agreement in the presence of asymmetric cross-border externalities. In this model, we show that both countries conflict in their preferred set of policy agendas and thus have incentives to delay their...

Le nouveau cycle de négociations multilatérales(« Round »)ouvert à Doha en 2001, s’est enlisé et n’a pu aboutir à un accord final dont la ratification par les États-Unis ne serait d’ailleurs pas acquise. Ce retard s’explique notamment par l’évolution du contexte qui est...