Poor countries are rarely challenged in formal WTO trade disputes for failing to live up to commitments, reducing the …. Given the weak incentives to enforce WTO rules and disciplines against small and poor members, bolstering the transparency … function of the WTO is important to make trade agreements more relevant to trade constituencies in developing countries. While …

theory guides our empirical assessment. We use instrumental variables to estimate the model on trade volume outcomes from WTO …

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 …

by Fedon (an Italian producer of eye glass cases) from the EU for the imposition of WTO-authorized retaliatory trade … barriers by the United States following the failure by the EU to comply with an adverse ruling by the WTO regarding its import … WTO-illegal protection, at the expense of a set of EU exporters, including Fedon, that were hit by US countermeasures. By …

countries fight about under WTO dispute settlement. It characterizes the scope of products, as well as the levels of and changes … to the trade values, market shares, volumes, and prices for those goods that eventually become subject to WTO litigation … products that ultimately become subject to dispute. Furthermore, while the respondent’s imposition of an allegedly WTO …

focus of GATT/WTO disciplines and Hudec’s analysis. …