A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in …

The China-Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and Mexico …

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. …

Organization (WTO), and Appellate Body decisions. The authors argue that border measures—both import restrictive measures and … challenged in the WTO. Given the prospect of foreseeable conflicts with WTO rules, the authors suggest that key WTO members … are imposed in a manner broadly consistent with core WTO principles even if a technical violation of WTO law could occur …

liberalize farm trade in the next WTO round follow the same pattern as the Uruguay Round, or might a more radical approach be … required to bring agriculture more into the WTO mainstream? The question is explored from the viewpoint of developing countries …

agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the contracting environment. We argue that taking contracting costs …

The larger trading nations have been the main users of the WTO Dispute Settlement system during its first four years of …

unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity. Apart from the fact that the procedure for triggering the … trade retaliation that WTO may permit under certain conditions. Both efficiency and equity concerns are raised. The Paper … concludes with some suggestions for reforming this part of WTO dispute resolution during the review of the Dispute Settlement …

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

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