The prospective WTO Millennium Round of negotiations will highlight critical economic issues regarding the application … and implementation of the WTO rules to international trade in goods and services. In this book, a distinguished group of … academic experts considers the agenda and areas of interest for the next Round in light of Seattle, the functions of the WTO …

1. The World Trade Organization and the international political economy -- 2. Institutional development of the WTO -- 3 …Despite the disruption of the multilateral trade talks at Seattle in December 1999, the work of the World Trade … Organization (WTO) continues. The trade and investment issues that have been outstanding since the Seattle events are explored in …

One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …