comply with the principles of transparency and non-discrimination and facilitate foreign trade operations and international … costs, risks and barriers to competition facing firms. The main report and the business survey conclude that transparency …

developing and least developed countries. Under the current WTO rules, unlike quantitative export restrictions which are in … the multilateral and bilateral levels. The WTO accession process imposes several disciplines. Export restrictions have …. Several regional trade agreements (RTAs) went beyond the WTO by including prohibition of export duties. Export restrictions …

Organization (WTO), plurilateral and bilateral regulatory harmonisation, mutual recognition and enforcement cooperation, and …

Organization (WTO), but the progress has since been more modest. Yet it provides opportunities to further trade liberalisation in …

commitments) and procurement provisions including transparency mechanisms of government procurement in the OECD member RTAs are … regard to procurement provisions including transparency measures, most RTAs broadly track those of the GPA, and recent RTAs …

the Baltic States and the SEE countries. The WTO... …

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 …