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The most favoured nation and non-discrimination provisions in international trade law and the OECD codes of liberalisation
Odio, Andrea Marín - 2020
Increasing moves away from multilateralism have created a fragmented trade and investment scenario where economies progressively combine the application of restrictive unilateral actions with bilateral and regional preferences. The application of, and exceptions to, the non-discrimination...
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International standards and the WTO TBT Agreement : improving governance for regulatory alignment
Wijkström, Erik; McDaniels, Devin - 2013 - Manuscript date: 19 March 2013
The WTO TBT Agreement obliges governments to use international standards as a basis for regulation, yet leaves a degree of flexibility with respect to the choice of standard, and the manner of its use. This interplay between obligation and flexibility has given rise to tension in various fora of...
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Letting the sun shine in at the WTO : how transparency brings the trading system to life
Wolfe, Robert - 2013 - Manuscript date: March 06, 2013
Without transparency, trade agreements are just words on paper. Transparency as disclosure allows economic actors and trading partners to see how rules are implanted; transparency in decision-making ensures fairness and peer review. In the first section of this paper, I discuss the logic of...
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Reform in Basic Telecommunications and the WTO Negotiations : The Asian Experience
World Trade Organization - 1998
This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as a mechanism for multilateral liberalization efforts. It...
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Financial Services and the WTO : Liberalization in the Developing and Transition Economies
World Trade Organization - 1998
(GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent …
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Regulatory Autonomy and Multilateral Disciplines : The Dilemma and a Possible Resolution
World Trade Organization - 1998
A major challenge for the multilateral trading system is to secure the benefits of trade liberalization without infringing on the freedom of governments to pursue legitimate domestic objectives. The difficulty lies in distinguishing between two types of situations. In one, a non-protectionist...
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Chapter 1. The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, C.P.; Crowley, M.A. - 2016
represented 83% of the world's population and 91% of the world's GDP in 2013. We address five questions: Do some countries have …, how liberalized is world trade? Our analysis documents the extent of cross-sectional heterogeneity in applied commercial … policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy. …
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Chapter 2. The Escape Clause in Trade Agreements
Beshkar, M.; Bond, E.W. - 2016
We provide a synthesis of the theoretical models that study the use of escape clauses, also known as safeguards, in multilateral and preferential trade agreements. We consider models that explain this type of flexibility based on economic efficiency, political economy shocks, and...
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Chapter 6. International Trade Agreements
Maggi, Giovanni - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 317-390). 2014
In this chapter I survey the recent theoretical and empirical advances in the economics of international trade agreements, focusing on three main topics: the motives for trade agreements; the design of rules and institutions for trade policy; and regional trade agreements.
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Chapter 16. Cultural Diversity, Copyright, and International Trade
Macmillan, Fiona - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 411-437). 2014
as a consequence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights …
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