Do the services commitments that countries have made in their post-Uruguay Round regional trade agreements (RTAs …) indicate the types of concessions that they would be willing to multilateralise in the General Agreement on Trade in Services … general, and especially the specific commitments and concessions that countries make on trade in services. It examines in …

restrictions, the paper reviews applicable rules and commitments elaborated in GATT/WTO, regional trade agreements and other … compound the effects of restrictive trade policies. This paper explores the issue of transparency with respect to the use of … available. After explaining how transparency is operationalised in the conduct of trade policy and what its benefits are for …

The proliferation of preferential trade agreements has posed challenges for the multilateral trading system. But … regional trade agreements (RTAs) also allow countries to develop and strengthen trade disciplines beyond what is possible at … of attention in multilateral trade agreements and negotiations as the elimination of import tariffs and quantitative …

practices found in WTO and regional trade agreements and good governance guidelines. Additionally, feedback was sought through a …

discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of …Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market … trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large emerging economies over the last decade. While there is a lively …

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

This report presents the findings of the OECD indicators for assessing the impact of specific trade facilitation … measures on developing countries’ trade. Sixteen trade facilitation indicators (TFIs) have been constructed, corresponding to … the main policy areas under negotiation at the WTO, with the aim to estimate the impact of addressing specific hurdles in …

Over the past decade, an increasing number of economies have resorted to regional trade agreements (RTAs) as a means to … OECD work on RTAs by examining regional provisions that deepen (WTO-plus) and expand (WTO-beyond) multilateral commitments … across a broad range of policy areas. It finds that WTO-plus measures are becoming more widespread and similar over time …

With a growing integration via trade and investment, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that have traditionally been … emerge from the international trade perspective: (1) How important is state ownership in the global economy; (2) What types …

The potential multilateralisation of government procurement commitments in regional trade agreements (RTAs) presents …