implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement as well as through technology-enabled services and the expansion of disaster …

in which traders operate.Binding tariffs at the WTO reduces the scope for their discretionary use. But, countries have … at which countries have committed at the WTO is sufficient to diminish trade policy volatility is an empirical question … commitments ; tariff volatility ; trade policy uncertainty ; World Trade Organization ; trade agreements …

Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … WTO bound tariffs that we built for all WTO Members from 1996 to -2011- at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation. Our …

The purpose of the paper is to discuss the effects of WTO accession on policy-making and institutional reforms in … WTO. We start by examining the effect of accession on trade policy and distinguish between the effects of accession … and macroeconomic management. We find that no precise blueprint of accession conditions can be ascertained, that WTO …

associated with such assistance. Trade Policy Reviews (TPRs) throw light not only on measures that appear to contravene WTO rules …, although that is not their purpose; more importantly, they identify measures not seemingly covered by WTO rules, which can … GATT/WTO, the stalling of negotiations in connection with the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) should not preclude further …

difficult to implement the more complex trade policy instrument applied by larger countries. Export and other government …. -- Commercial Policy ; GATT WTO ; Liberalization ; Integration ; History …

; the need to make use of the WTO forum to enhance credibility and sustain domestic regulatory reform programmes; the …

The WTO's plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper … positive non-tariff effects on both imports (layer 3) and exports (layer 4). These commitment effects suggest that higher trade … policy certainty affects investment and sourcing decisions in favour of signatories: Their ITA exports performed better …