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Telecommunications and the World Trade Organization : The Case of Mexico

Wellenius, Bj??rn; Galarza, Juan; Guermazi, Boutheina - 2012

dispute contain interpretations of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), especially its Annex on … under the GATS irrespective of whether the same service provider is present in both countries. The accounting rate regime … excuse the country from meeting its commitments under the GATS. Mexico and the United States, although not in full agreement …

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Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, Revisited

Anderson, Kym; Kurzweil, Marianne; Martin, Will - 2012

Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which agricultural producer and consumer incentives are distorted in national markets. Especially in developing...

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Currency Undervaluation and Sovereign Wealth Funds : A New Role for the World Trade Organization

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - 2012

Two aspects of global imbalances - undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds - require a multilateral response. For reasons of inadequate leverage and eroding legitimacy, the International Monetary Fund has not been effective in dealing with undervalued exchange rates. This paper...

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The Doha Development Agenda : What's on the Table?

Martin, Will; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

The outlines of a potential agreement, emerging after seven years of negotiations, imply that Doha offers three key benefits: reduced uncertainty of market access in goods and services; improved market access in agriculture and manufacturing; and the mobilization of resources to deal with the...

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Multilateralism beyond Doha

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - 2012

There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to adapt. The Doha process focused on issues of limited significance while the burning issues of the day were not even on the negotiating agenda. This paper advances five...

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Trade Effects of Regional Standards Liberalization : A Heterogeneous Firms Approach

Baller, Silja - 2012

This study investigates trade effects of the regional liberalization of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) in the form of harmonization and mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) for testing procedures. The theoretical part of the paper is framed in terms of a heterogeneous firms approach. This...

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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 Union exports of sugar. Brazil, Thailand, and Australia alleged that the exports have substantially exceeded permitted levels as established by European Union commitments in the...

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Canada-Wheat : Discrimination, Non-Commercial Considerations, and State Trading Enterprises

Hoekman, Bernard; Trachtman, Joel - 2012

Statutory marketing boards that have exclusive authority to purchase domestic production, sell for export, and set purchase and sales prices of commodities are a type of state trading enterprise that is subject to World Trade Organization disciplines. This paper assesses a recent dispute brought...

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Developing Countries and Enforcement of Trade Agreements : Why Dispute Settlement is Not Enough

Bown, Chad P.; Bernard M., Hoekman - 2012

Poor countries are rarely challenged in formal World Trade Organization trade disputes for failing to live up to commitments, reducing the benefits of their participation in international trade agreements. This paper examines the political-economic causes of the failure to challenge poor...

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

Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

This paper discusses what could be done to expand services trade and investment through a multilateral agreement in the World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for benefiting from market opening. The authors argue that...

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