In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that he wanted to resurrect the legendary Silk Road; he proposed a titanic project to build hundreds of roads, bridges, and railroads to connect China and Europe. In China, the government also speaks of the ‘Belt and Road initiative' (One Belt, One...

There seems to be two paths for reform of the WTO: (a) internal reforms which consist of measures to meet the current deficiency including the strengthening of anti-subsidy measures, measures prohibiting forced transfer of technology, the creation of mechanism which would review Appellate Body...

Issues in international trade, investment, transfer of technology and other economic resources are closely linked with each other and the governance of international trading system requires cooperative relationship among different international organizations and international forum such as the...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) came into being on January 1, 1995, as the result of the Uruguay Round Trade Negotiation (UR) which was the eighth trade negotiation under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade1 (GATT). This year (2005) celebrates the Tenth Anniversary of the WTO and it is...

The Government Procurement Agreement ("GPA"), the successor of the Tokyo Round Government Procurement Code, is one of the Plurilateral Agreements (Annex 4) in the WTO. The contents of the GPA have been incorporated into domestic procurement legislation in the participating Members including the...

Antidumping: antidumping has become an important issue not only among those developed WTO members but also among those developing WTO members. To address the issue, the author begins describing different types of anti-circumvention measures. Like antidumping, anti-circumvention is a necessary...