inclusion of GATS and TRIPS in the WTO made the WTO a more important influence on international cultural policy than its GATT …

The WTO has increased international disciplines and sends more consistent signals than the GATT on export policy …

In a recent notable paper, Rose (2004a) finds no evidence that membership in the GATT/WTO increases trade. However, to … agriculture, textile and oil trade from consideration, as they are not dealt with under GATT/WTO rules; as a result, the benefit … of the GATT/WTO's promotional efforts is pronounced, increasing trade by approximately 30% for member countries. …

Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and review recent developments in the relevant theoretical and empirical literature. We describe the … GATT/WTO architecture and briefly trace its historical antecedents. We suggest that the existing literature provides a … useful framework for understanding and interpreting central features of the design and practice of the GATT/WTO, and we …

believe it is agreeable to seek a balance between trade and the environment, the GATT/WTO as an international law regime … legality of these trade-related measures aimed at protecting the environment in GATT/WTO jurisprudence and hence, arriving at …

. Thus, Article 1 of the charter of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) mandates most-favored nation (MFN …-country GATT members by output (the Global System of Trade Preferences and the Protocol Relating to Trade Negotiations). We show … that as in the GATT writ large, their patterns of tariff cuts and trade expansion were highly skewed toward a small number …

, Article XX a) of the GATT is an important element because it offers the only guarantee against an absolutist vision of … one country to another and varies over time, and the GATT?s preparatory works do not give substantial information about … discussions and agreements that existed before the creation of the GATT. Those were primarily the Economic Commission of the Genoa …