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Looking back at the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO), major accords that have been reached under the … pointing to the crucial role they can play in resolving the stalemate at the WTO and the Doha Round and the accelerating … proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs). Through analysis of their characteristics compared with the WTO and FTAs, the paper …
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This paper argues that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are not substitutes … not a serious option. It is therefore necessary to seek out better accommodation between PTAs and the WTO than has been … apparent to date. The law of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/WTO has systematically fallen short in imposing …
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This paper argues that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are not substitutes … not a serious option. It is therefore necessary to seek out better accommodation between PTAs and the WTO than has been … apparent to date. The law of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/WTO has systematically fallen short in imposing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278213
services notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS … rules and liberalization commitments on services trade for WTO members. It addresses this question and its implications for …
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services notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS … rules and liberalization commitments on services trade for WTO members. It addresses this question and its implications for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653166
moves in the current WTO Doha negotiations. Working together, the developing countries have much greater negotiating …
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Developing countries have been characterized as having played an essentially defensive role in the GATT, unwilling to make tariff concessions, and have focused almost exclusively on securing Special and Differential Treatment concessions. These three perspectives have become part of the...
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The World Trade Organisations 2004 Trade Policy Review of Singapore (WTO-TPR Singapore 2004) depicts the small and … trade. However, the WTO-TPR Singapore 2004 highlights several key areas of concerns : (a) the commitment to multilateral … raised in the WTOs TPR of Singapore in terms of its commitment to global trade in terms of WTO-plus bilateral FTAs, which …
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Regionalism has become a key component of the new international order. It offers to the governments of developed and developing countries a new and attractive complementary strategy to multilateralism. Most countries of the world today belong to one or more regional trading arrangements of some...
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This paper summarizes the conceptual rationale for investment liberalization to fully exploit the potential of regional trading arrangements. It goes on to examine the treatment of investment in emerging FTAs/RTAs in the Asia-Pacific region and the specific investment provisions and their...
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