environmental policies and the multilateral trading system. In particular, it analyses some of the difficulties the WTO Dispute … failures, be ruled consistent with multilateral trade law. This paper argues that WTO law in theory provides appropriate tools … interpretations of certain WTO rules in the context of environmental disputes. …

versus export promotion and use the Bagwell and Staiger interpretation of the WTO principle of reciprocity to provide a … political-legal-economic decision on a WTO-consistent counterfactual to use to implement the formula, and iii) the quantitative … methods they use to necessarily construct the (unobserved) WTO-consistent counterfactual. We examine not only the arbitrations …

investigations by reviewing the literature, the applicable WTO rules and, in particular, the pertinent case law. The potential value …

under the GATS are vague concerning the criteria which should be used to establish likeness. Discussions among WTO Members …

(GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent …. First, there has been less emphasis on the introduction of competition through allowing new entry than on allowing (or … of competition was not deemed feasible, not much advantage has been taken of the GATS to lend credibility to …

system. Considerable information on WTO transparency mechanisms is available in the Minutes and annual reports of the various … WTO bodies, and in the Director-General's annual overview of the trading system, but comparative analysis is not easy. In … explaining how transparency works in the WTO. For sunshine to work, at least two things must happen. Information must be made …

the trade side of this relationship, we have the reality that the GATT/WTO rules were not originally drafted to … accommodate climate change policies and concerns. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relevance of certain WTO rules to …

The WTO TBT Agreement obliges governments to use international standards as a basis for regulation, yet leaves a degree … flexibility has given rise to tension in various fora of the WTO, including in committee work, negotiations and dispute settlement …. This paper brings together these three distinct strands of WTO work to illustrate core aspects of the international …

design and functioning of these dispute settlement mechanisms (DSMs) and, more specifically, how they differ from the WTO … of jurisdictional conflict between DSMs of RTAs and the WTO dispute settlement system. Literature mapping out and … jurisdictional conflict between the multilateral and regional regimes. We map out the DSMs in RTAs that have been notified to the WTO …