This study documents some unintended consequences of the WTO membership by providing evidence on displacement of tariff … evasion driven by the WTO accession process. We argue that implementation of Article VII of the GATT resulted in limiting … discretion of customs officials in terms of assessing unit values of goods. While prior to the WTO accession, officials were free …

theory guides our empirical assessment. We use instrumental variables to estimate the model on trade volume outcomes from WTO …

We use 6-digit bilateral trade data to document the effect of WTO/GATT membership on the extensive and intensive … equations are motivated by the model of Eaton and Kortum (2002). The data show that the puzzle of no significant impact of WTO … impact of the WTO is almost exclusively on the extensive product margin of trade, i.e. trade in goods that were not …

This paper challenges the contention that WTO rules had much impact on state behaviour during the recent global … crisis, as well as on certain, often overlooked features of WTO obligations are used to support a conclusion that the WTO … rules altered at most the composition of crisis-era protectionism. As to the quantum of protectionism, it is unclear how WTO …

under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … the WTO. The case marked the first WTO dispute in which a challenged safeguard was upheld by the Appellate Body; the first … reviews the WTO Appellate Body’s findings and discusses a number of the legal and policy implications regarding China …