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This study is a section from the Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA), commissioned by the European Commission, on the impacts of the Investment Chapter in the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The Investment Chapter in CETA could encourage economic benefits...
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Commissioned by the European Commission, the Final Report for the EU-Canada Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) on the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) provides a comprehensive assessment of the potential impacts of trade liberalisation under CETA. The analysis...
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The Lisbon Treaty entered into force on December 1, 2009, marking a new level of EU’s initiatives on institutional change and policy reforms in 2000’s. The purpose of this study is to provide an outline of the changes in the institutional structure of EU with the Lisbon Treaty, considering...
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The CIS trade regime can be characterised as a mix of, partly overlapping, weak, bilateral, subregional, and multilateral agreements. This is a result of the design of the CIS, which was explicitly constructed to allow its member states to participate in only those parts that they deemed in...
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light of the general explosion of literature on the World Trade Organization (WTO), including on its dispute settlement … become the subject of countless contributions, the efforts of the entire WTO community to make the DSU evolve further have … and where the intergovernmental, memberdriven character of the WTO is largely overlooked. Practically, such a distorted …
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with their WTO obligations may well arise in implementing the Kyoto Protocol, given that Article 2 of the Protocol gives … respect to the WTO consistency and the conditions under which border taxes can be adjusted to accommodate a loss of … polices and WTO rules. It highlights their potential conflicts, and argues that such conflicts can be avoided or at least …
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under the GATT 1947 had dealt with in nearly five decades. The system is perceived, both by practitioners and in academic … taking place since 1997 ("DSU review"), however, without yielding any result so far. In the meantime, WTO Members and … shortcomings of the DSU text, the more profound imbalance between relatively efficient judicial decision-making in the WTO (as …
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ABSTRACT On 1 January 1995, the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (DSU) entered into force. Since 1998, negotiations to review and reform the DSU have taken place (‘DSU review’), without however yielding any result so far. This study proposes to...
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economy through various channels. It is important to note that, at the WTO, Bangladesh, as an LDC, is not bound to undertake … scenarios (a global agricultural trade liberalization scenario under WTO-Doha agreement, Bangladesh – India bilateral FTA, and …
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The paper sets out to suggest that regional trade between South Asia is quite low when compared to other regional blocks like NAFTA, EU 15, ASEAN, and MERCOUSER. The paper identifies non cooperation between India and Pakistan to be the main reason behind low trade in South Asia. The paper...
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