review the limited progress achieved to date in the WTO and major regional agreements on services and possible explanations …

Plurilateral agreements in the WTO context allow sub-sets of countries to agree to commitments in specific policy areas … that only apply to signatories, and thus allow for 'variable geometry' in the WTO. Plurilateral agreements share a number … distinguishes them from the general, nondiscriminatory agreements that are negotiated among—and apply to—all WTO Members. Current …

by Fedon (an Italian producer of eye glass cases) from the EU for the imposition of WTO-authorized retaliatory trade … barriers by the United States following the failure by the EU to comply with an adverse ruling by the WTO regarding its import … WTO-illegal protection, at the expense of a set of EU exporters, including Fedon, that were hit by US countermeasures. By …

This paper provides a legal-economic analysis of the unappealed WTO Panel Report in China – Certain Measures Affecting … Electronic Payment Services (WT/DS413/R). The core Number was whether China’s measures that resulted in there being only one … dominant supplier of electronic payment services (EPS) in China violated the specific commitments made by China under the GATS …