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 …-exhaustible. The implication is that, although WTO-plus transparency measures may be de jure preferential by virtue of being inscribed …

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how … three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) incorporate transparency into their regulatory regimes: CITES (endangered … of regulatory transparency to the success of these regimes, we use an analytic framework based on three major …

the Inventory research, about policy transparency. What information about use of export restrictions do governments …

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 …

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 …

main policy areas under negotiation at the WTO, with the aim to estimate the impact of addressing specific facilitation …

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

heightened uncertainty about supply availability together with friction among trading partners. Poor transparency can amplify and … compound the effects of restrictive trade policies. This paper explores the issue of transparency with respect to the use of … available. After explaining how transparency is operationalised in the conduct of trade policy and what its benefits are for …

the main policy areas under negotiation at the WTO, with the aim to estimate the impact of addressing specific hurdles in …