. The paper assembles detailed information about the IP provisions contained in active RTAs notified to the WTO. The goal … was to expand beyond the more commonly studied RTAs, to review the full array of agreements notified to the WTO and thus …

2013. WTO commitments (1.0 p.p. average cut) and unilateral liberalizations on a most-favored-nation (MFN) basis (1.3 p …

We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent … developments in the relevant theoretical and empirical literature. And we describe the GATT/WTO architecture and briefly trace its … central features of the design and practice of the GATT/WTO, and we identify key unresolved issues. …

There are essentially two types of plurilateral trade agreements (PAs) among WTO Members, an exclusive and an open … discussions. This article takes a sceptical view, since any such PA would need to be agreed by consensus among all 160-odd WTO … treaty frameworks, as "WTO-extra" understandings. …

Organization (WTO). With the aim of stimulating discussion, this paper asks the question of how trade, and WTO rules, can … contribute to the post-2015 development agenda? In reply, the author offers some thoughts on 10 contributions that trade, and WTO … environment for the achievement of the post-2015 development agenda; the role that trade, and trade policy, can play in meeting …

This paper evaluates the impact of China's WTO entry and the establishment of a free-trade agreement between China and … the two regions using a market-share model and assess the impact of China's WTO entry on the ASEAN-5 with an exchange rate …-5 after the WTO entry of China and the establishment of FTA between ASEAN and China, impacts on different industries are …

and the EU. The analysis is also related to some regulations issued by the Committee for Trade and Environment of the WTO …, calculated by the author according to the OECD requirements (OECD-EUROSTAT, WTO, 1999). The analysis enables the author to …

countries. The Uruguay Round brought agriculture into the WTO legal framework, but did not lower the effective level of OECD … farm protection after 1995 and granted many exceptions to WTO rules that reinforced agricultural protection. While there … Report on Trade for Development released in May 2005. In 2001-2002, he was special advisor to Mike Moore, WTO Director …