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 …We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, the General Agreement on …

features of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism that are generally lacking in preferential trade agreements such as improved … countries that depend on preferential trading areas as opposed to the WTO. …

favoured nation (MFN) clause - as developed under the GATT and GATS - and the non-discrimination clause among countries …

restrictions, the paper reviews applicable rules and commitments elaborated in GATT/WTO, regional trade agreements and other …

practices found in WTO and regional trade agreements and good governance guidelines. Additionally, feedback was sought through a …

: 1) the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); 2) the … indicate that OECD membership (but neither GATT/WTO nor IMF membership) has had a consistently large positive effect on trade. …

new World Trade Organization (WTO). Many developing countries perceive the entwining of these social issues with trade … examines why these issues are becoming more prominent, whether the WTO is an appropriate forum to discuss them, and how they …

restrictions. The WTO provides a general prohibition on quantitative export restrictions but the broad and, at times, ambiguous … exceptions somewhat vitiate the ban. Moreover, export taxes are not explicitly forbidden in the WTO. This study suggests that … there are a number of ways by which WTO disciplines could benefit from the approaches found in some RTAs in the area of …

currently covered by the WTO Agreement, such as investment protection, competition policy, labour standards and environmental … contents of all PTAs involving the EC and the US currently notified to the WTO, into 14 "WTO+" and 38 "WTO-X" areas, where WTO …+ provisions come under the current mandate of the WTO, and WTO-X provisions deal with issues lying outside the current WTO mandate …