We consider a 3 country world in which each country's import market is served by competing exporters from its 2 trading …

the role the WTO might play in guiding them. Two facts form the departure point: 1) Regionalism is here to stay; 2) the … motley assortment of regional trade agreements is not the best way to organise world trade. Moving to global duty-free trade … and uses it to structure a narrative of world trade liberalisation since 1947. The logic is then used to project the world …

GATT and its successor, the WTO. We show that GATT's principle of reciprocity serves to neutralize the world-price effects … provided that the externa- lities associated with trade intervention travel through world prices. We then establish that …

barriers, and eventually add fresh impulse to new multilateral WTO negotiations. In commercial policy terms, the US interest in … entirely in the WTO by 2015. In key non commodity trade areas (services, investment, intellectual property, temporary entry of …

Vietnamese firms to the 2007 WTO accession. Our result show that WTO accession is associated with higher probability of exit …