This paper examines the concept of Reciprocal Trade Liberalization – the common objective of Economic Partnership … on Trade in Services (GATS). The study is premised on the fact that EPA'S are beneficial and within the ambits of WTO …'S rules of reciprocal trade among member states, however, it advocates for legal caution and prudence on the same considering …

Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) agreements in order to protect human, animal and plant health as well as environment, wildlife … and human safety. Our paper offers an analysis of the structure and the importance of these measures in agricultural trade … equal distribution of negative and positive impacts of NTBs on agricultural trade …

support claims that protectionism and distortive subsidies to agriculture remain widespread in more developed nations, which …-country protectionism are also found to be relatively closed to agricultural trade …This paper provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of agricultural trade using a gravity model. The data …

Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …

highlights the concern that both bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations may exert pressure on countries to adopt IPR …