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Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains the initial balance of concessions and prevents...
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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 …
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investigations by reviewing the literature, the applicable WTO rules and, in particular, the pertinent case law. The potential value …
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under the GATS are vague concerning the criteria which should be used to establish likeness. Discussions among WTO Members …
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(GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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WTO Members have made abundant use of these possibilities. While most participants elected not to undertake bindings on … in politically and socially sensitive areas to take action in the WTO. There are indications, however, that the same …
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The objective of this paper is to assess the adequacy of multilateral rules dealing with monopolies and state enterprises, particularly in the domain of services. This paper argues that since these rules depend largely on the other obligations undertaken by Members, a variety of exemptions and...
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