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The larger trading nations have been the main users of the WTO Dispute Settlement system during its first four years of …
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unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity. Apart from the fact that the procedure for triggering the … trade retaliation that WTO may permit under certain conditions. Both efficiency and equity concerns are raised. The Paper … concludes with some suggestions for reforming this part of WTO dispute resolution during the review of the Dispute Settlement …
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A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in …
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liberalize farm trade in the next WTO round follow the same pattern as the Uruguay Round, or might a more radical approach be … required to bring agriculture more into the WTO mainstream? The question is explored from the viewpoint of developing countries …
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We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may be incomplete. In spite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on the structure of the optimal trade agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the...
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’s Accession Protocol, the Safeguards Agreement, and WTO accession law, as well as economic aspects of the case. … 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 …
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currently covered by the WTO Agreement, such as investment protection, competition policy, labour standards and environmental … contents of all PTAs involving the EC and the US currently notified to the WTO, into 14 "WTO+" and 38 "WTO-X" areas, where WTO …+ provisions come under the current mandate of the WTO, and WTO-X provisions deal with issues lying outside the current WTO mandate …
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The US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulation mandates, subject to a civil penalty, producers to achieve a certain fleet average fuel economy on sales of new passenger cars. Analysing the incentive effects of CAFE, we find that it affords differential tax treatment to car models with...
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We provide a simple but novel model of trade agreements that highlights the role of transaction costs, renegotiation and dispute settlement. The model allows us to characterize the appropriate remedy for breach and whether the agreement should be structured as a system of "property rights" or...
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. This article establishes the principle of National Treatment, which requires WTO Members not to introduce internal measures …
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