growing importance of CAPs in WTO discussions and bilateral and regional free trade agreements. This paper conducts an … empirical study of the trade issues that WTO Members encounter with CAPs as described in specific trade concerns (STCs) raised … in the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) during 2010-2014. We observe that CAPs raise proportionally …

This paper illustrates how the work of the WTO's standing committees is fuelling regulatory cooperation between WTO … members, and inspiring RTA negotiators. We explore, as a case study, how the WTO TBT Committee has shaped provisions on … international standards in RTAs, and focus on the extent to which RTAs have assimilated the WTO TBT principles for development of …

The WTO TBT Agreement obliges governments to use international standards as a basis for regulation, yet leaves a degree … flexibility has given rise to tension in various fora of the WTO. This paper brings together these three distinct strands of WTO … work to illustrate core aspects of the international standards debate at the WTO. In our analysis we first briefly outline …

and the WTO Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly ten years ago and draws on a recent … analysis of their impact. This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), a joint initiative by the World Bank … classification, consistent with both the earlier World Bank database and the current OECD database, enabling for the first time a …