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security of market access result from increased membership of the GATT/WTO system, which itself underwent important changes as … 1996. The systemic changes and the expansion of WTO membership to the transition and other economies mark a dramatic change … a result of the Uruguay Round, further developed in the first Ministerial Meeting of the WTO in Singapore in December …
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Market access negotiations in merchandise trade at the multilateral level cover tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs). While tariffs have been substantially reduced in earlier rounds, they remain high in certain areas and further reductions involve a number of complex technical issues. Some...
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The WTO has increased international disciplines on export policy, but there is still scope for the use of export … subsidies and other measures to promote exports. Under macroeconomic and trade reforms of the last decade, many countries have … reduced or eliminated import measures which operate as an implicit tax on their own exports. While more needs to be done in …
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The EU model is being progressively transmitted to other economies through expansion of membership and various …
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(GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent …
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-opening commitments, even though they were not pursuing export interests. The paper also considers the limits to what was achieved by way …
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A major challenge for the multilateral trading system is to secure the benefits of trade liberalization without infringing on the freedom of governments to pursue legitimate domestic objectives. The difficulty lies in distinguishing between two types of situations. In one, a non-protectionist...
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The EU's import policies towards developing countries are complex, stemming from important sectoral and country variations in policy. Average tariffs are modest, and, while there are tariff peaks and escalation in some areas of interest to developing countries, these are being reduced as a...
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This study argues that trade policies regarding financial services are an important - but typically neglected - determinant of capital flows and financial sector stability. Financial services trade liberalisation which promotes the use of a broad spectrum of financial instruments and allows the...
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Much has been recently written about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) that has been negotiated by OECD countries. Perhaps even more has been said by the critics of those who would like to see an agreement of this kind extended among other countries. There has indeed been a great...
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