The paper provides a brief overview of the new World Trade Organization, successor to the GATT as the arbiter of …

Developed to assist public understanding of the trade and environment debate in the WTO, this document briefly presents … liberalization on the environment, the relationship between multilateral environmental agreements and the WTO, and a review of trade …

The paper offers a novel explanation for China’s manufacturing exports performance after WTO entry. Building on … conjunction with China’s WTO accession, and examines its effect on China’s exports to the EU. The results reveal that: (i) the … structure of China’s export boom to the EU conforms to the pattern of US tariff uncertainty; (ii) the adjustment takes place at …

On 5 September 2011, the WTO issued the Appellate Body report for the first WTO case on a transitional product …-specific safeguard measure, United States – Measures Affecting Imports of Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tyres from China (U … applicable only to the imports from a single country, China. Second, a TSM is applicable under more relaxed conditions than those …

agricultural products. Since China's accession to the WTO, China agricultural exports have increased by 8 percent annually while …China’s rapid rise as a leading global exporter of manufacturing goods since its accession to the WTO in 2001 has been … imports have risen by almost twice that rate. China has become the world's largest importer of agricultural products and the …