This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements …

. Pessimistic implications are drawn concerning the future restraining role that multilateral trade obligations could ever play …

choice of beggar-thy-neighbor policy instruments than binding trade rules and other international accords. …

clout in international commercial negotiations. Yet, since the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) creation in 1995, it is … difficult to point to a string of successes for the European Commission's (EC's) often beleaguered trade negotiators. Even the … abandon its moratorium on negotiating new free trade agreements seems more of a stop-gap measure to maintain some negotiating …

The Most-Favored Nation clause (MFN) forbids Members of a trade agreement to discriminate between trading partners. It … agreements in the World Trade Organization. There seems to be a rather widespread belief among policy makers that there are …

. Although many specifics have yet to be determined, some contours of this new trade policy landscape are coming into focus and … reciprocal trade agreements by Brazil, India, and China; the potential new poles of the world trading system. I consider the … possible content of future multilateral trade initiatives. …

Several factors potentially responsible for the failure to conclude the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations … 2007, and pervasive unilateral trade reform to eliminate the “landing zone” for this particular multilateral negotiation …