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 …

: 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. …

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 …

While environmental and labour issues are not new to the GATT, nor to other trade policy fora, they are likely to have … a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the newly formed World Trade Organization (WTO … becoming more prominent, whether the WTO is an appropriate forum to discuss them, and how they affect developing and other …

This Paper considers the economic analysis of non-tariff barriers in the context of disputes under Art. III of the GATT …. This article establishes the principle of National Treatment, which requires WTO Members not to introduce internal measures …

Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade … policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly correlated with GATT/WTO membership. Trade liberalizations, when … they occur, usually lag GATT entry by many years, and the GATT/WTO often admits countries that are closed and remain closed …

(WTO), its predecessor the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the Generalized System of Preferences … to find positive significant effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade. The GSP does seem to have a strong effect, and is …