can be liberalised within the WTO framework. It presents some of the recent estimates of trade costs related to barriers …

For many years now, lack of progress in multilateral trade negotiations has been a major cause of concern among WTO … account of the use of OPAs in the GATT 1947 era and of its revival under the WTO Agreement. It describes the various areas of … the WTO Agreement in which OPAs can be successfully employed to make progress in liberalisation as well as in rule …

making in the Asia-Pacific and one in the Atlantic, all with rather ambitious negotiation targets, and presented as alternate … multilateral trading system as promulgated by the WTO, and the implications for China and India. The paper analyses the new …