To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General …:2); (ii) "multilateralization" of the GPA; (iii) the reactivation of work in the (currently inactive) WTO Working Group …

We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member …

This paper addresses the issue of export licensing procedures in the WTO context. It aims to contribute to the … understanding of the existing rules applicable to export licensing in the WTO, and what the development of specific disciplines … specific rules on export licensing in the GATT and in the WTO, the existing WTO rules applicable to export and import licensing …

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 …

What is the value of the WTO Committee on Agriculture? How much trade do countries talk about at the WTO? Do low … building and analysing a new database. WTO regular bodies and the Secretariat collect information on measures notified and …

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 …

their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade … policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building productive capacity; and trade-related adjustment. The WTO … WTO has been focusing on women with the aim of building their capacity to trade and using trade as a tool for their …