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 …

started with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth … other is to stay idle and accept that the WTO must accommodate different economic regimes, no matter how idiosyncratic. In … that, while in the past the GATT/WTO had to address the accession of socialist countries or of big trading nations, it …

exploring the possibility of open, transparent and non-discriminatory e-commerce trade rules in the WTO. India has not joined … this group as commitments in the WTO may reduce the ability of the government to promote and support domestic industry … understand the growth of the e-commerce sector globally and in India, the developments in the WTO, and India's position. Based on …