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Supply Chains, Mega-Regionals and Multilateralism : A Road Map for the WTO

Hoekman, Bernard - 2014

At the 9th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Bali it was agreed to develop a work program to conclude the long-running Doha round. This report argues that any work program should recognize that goods and services are increasingly produced in international supply chains. Many of the policies...

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Sustaining Multilateral Trade Cooperation in a Multipolar World Economy

Hoekman, Bernard - 2014

The deadlock in the WTO Doha Round has been accompanied by an increased focus on the negotiation of preferential trade agreements, including so-called ‘mega-regionals'. This paper discusses possible implications for — and possible responses by — excluded countries that have little...

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Regulatory Cooperation, Aid for Trade and the General Agreement on Trade in Services

Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …

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Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization

Fran??ois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard; Manchin, Miriam - 2012

Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. The authors examine the actual scope for preference...

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Trade Agreements, Regulatory Sovereignty and Democratic Legitimacy

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

Governments increasingly are seeking to use bilateral and regional trade agreements to reduce the cost-increasing effects of differences in product market regulation. They also pursue regulatory cooperation independent of trade agreements. It is important to understand what is being done through...

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Burning Down the House? The Appellate Body in the Centre of the WTO Crisis

Hoekman, Bernard - 2019

In December 2019 the WTO Appellate Body (AB) will cease to operate unless the United States stops blocking new appointments. The US argues the AB has exceeded its mandate and has indicated it wants to ensure that the AB performs the role originally assigned to it in 1995. This paper discusses...

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The Bali Trade Facilitation Agreement and Rulemaking in the WTO : Milestone, Mistake or Mirage?

Hoekman, Bernard - 2014

The Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) embodies the first set of new multilateral rules to have been negotiated under auspices of the WTO since the launch of the Doha Development Agenda, part of a small package of decisions centering on matters of interest to developing countries that was...

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European Community???Sugar : Cross-Subsidization and the World Trade Organization

Hoekman, Bernard; Howse, Robert - 2012

An important recent World Trade Organization dispute settlement case for many developing countries concerned European … being used to cover losses associated with exports of sugar to the world market. Although in principle the economic …

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WTO Dispute Settlement and the Appellate Body Crisis : Insider Perceptions and Members’ Revealed Preferences

Fiorini, Matteo; Hoekman, Bernard; Mavroidis, Petros C.; … - 2021

the terms of sitting members expire. The AB crisis usually is presented as the U.S. against the world. In this paper, we …

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Strengthening the Global Trade Architecture for Development

Hoekman, Bernard - 2013

Despite recurring rounds of trade liberalization, under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (and its … have not been able to integrate into the world economy. The author argues that from the perspective of the poorest …

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