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under auspices of the WTO, part of a small package of decisions centering on matters of interest to developing countries … implications of the TFA experience for the prospects for new rule-making and cooperation on regulatory matters in the WTO. The TFA … illustrates both the potential and the difficulty of negotiating generally applicable stand-alone agreements in the WTO and …
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This paper reviews several key implications of international investment and global supply chain fragmentation for the multilateral trading system. Based on existing economic research, I identify a two-fold challenge for policy makers: first, to leverage the trade-liberalizing potential of global...
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In the first dispute on renewable energy to come to WTO dispute settlement, the domestic content requirement of Ontario …
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If WTO members wish to launch a new round to follow Doha, setting the agenda will require a complex negotiation as in …. Reaching an agenda agreement could also depend in part on decisions by WTO chairs during this negotiation. Experience …
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If WTO members wish to launch a new round to follow Doha, setting the agenda will require a complex negotiation as in …. Reaching an agenda agreement could also depend in part on decisions by WTO chairs during this negotiation. Experience …
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The WTO is regarded as one of the few successes of (proto-) constitutionalism in response to globalization. However … is less obviously well-represented by nation-state representatives, while the expansion in WTO membership and its … coverage implies a constitutional claim that neither the WTO process nor the resulting structure supports. This paper …
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Trade Organization (WTO) itself. In contrast, I suggest in the first part of this paper that exogenous structural factors … the WTO, in common with most multilateral organizations, has not caught up with the shifting centre of gravity in global …
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Plurilateral agreements in the WTO context allow sub-sets of countries to agree to commitments in specific policy areas … that only apply to signatories, and thus allow for 'variable geometry' in the WTO. Plurilateral agreements share a number … distinguishes them from the general, nondiscriminatory agreements that are negotiated among—and apply to—all WTO Members. Current …
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The disagreements between the old and new trade powers in the WTO on market access issues that have deadlocked the Doha … pursued in the WTO. A re-thinking of that approach is in order. This paper argues for greater effort and new approaches to use … the WTO as a mechanism to help developing countries to reduce the trade and transactions costs that prevent firms and …
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This paper discusses the challenges that confront the WTO, inspired by the recent appointment of a new Director … the path forward for the WTO and for sustaining multilateral cooperation on trade. …
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