restrictions, the paper reviews applicable rules and commitments elaborated in GATT/WTO, regional trade agreements and other …

practices found in WTO and regional trade agreements and good governance guidelines. Additionally, feedback was sought through a …

restrictions. The WTO provides a general prohibition on quantitative export restrictions but the broad and, at times, ambiguous … exceptions somewhat vitiate the ban. Moreover, export taxes are not explicitly forbidden in the WTO. This study suggests that … there are a number of ways by which WTO disciplines could benefit from the approaches found in some RTAs in the area of …

-Chile Free Trade Association. The paper first compares the texts of these RTAs with the provisions made in the WTO SPS and TBT …

discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of … deepen existing multilateral transparency commitments (“WTO-plus”), but expand them to new areas that do not have precedents … in WTO agreements (“WTO-beyond”). In particular, the paper illuminates a number of options that may be useful for policy …

OECD work on RTAs by examining regional provisions that deepen (WTO-plus) and expand (WTO-beyond) multilateral commitments … across a broad range of policy areas. It finds that WTO-plus measures are becoming more widespread and similar over time … set of attributes that may be able to render WTO-plus provisions more amenable to multilateralisation, either through a …

been recognised as an important engine for growth and development, yet WTO negotiations in this area have yielded very … little progress so far. Against the backdrop of WTO stalemate, an increasing number of RTAs adopted specific provisions and …-commerce spaghetti bowl that will undermine the prospects for future WTO consensus in this area. This study considers two broad …