Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), adopted by WTO Members in 2014, seeks to expedite the movement, release and clearance of … World Trade Report. At the same time, many WTO Agreements already contain provisions aimed at facilitating trade procedures … WTO Agreements such as the SPS Agreement) will be crucial for effective implementation. It will also contribute to more …

transition to the WTO. In particular, I examine the WTO Agreement on Safeguards that has replaced the GATT escape clause (Article … XIX), and the Dispute Settlement Process (DSP) that resembles a court of law under the WTO. Using this framework, I … interpret the weakening of the reciprocity principle under the Agreement on Safeguards as an attempt to reduce efficiency …

overlap with obligations assumed by WTO Members under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). About 60 per cent of … potential counterparts under the GATS. At the same time, since most WTO Members have not listed relevant exemptions from the … provisions, this article discusses options on how WTO Members could proceed. -- Trade in services ; GATS ; investment treaties …

versus export promotion and use the Bagwell and Staiger interpretation of the WTO principle of reciprocity to provide a … political-legal-economic decision on a WTO-consistent counterfactual to use to implement the formula, and iii) the quantitative … methods they use to necessarily construct the (unobserved) WTO-consistent counterfactual. We examine not only the arbitrations …

under the GATS are vague concerning the criteria which should be used to establish "likeness". Discussions among WTO Members …

the trade side of this relationship, we have the reality that the GATT/WTO rules were not originally drafted to … accommodate climate change policies and concerns. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relevance of certain WTO rules to … ; carbon leakage ; climate change ; competitiveness ; GATT/WTO ; standards ; trade …

The WTO's Dispute Settlement Mechanism (DSM) has been hailed as a fundamental aspect of the Multilateral Trading System … established by WTO rules. -- Dispute settlement ; Latin-America ; participation ; challenges ; litigation ; retaliation …

literature to date and drawn very little attention in relevant WTO fora either. Nevertheless, 'minus commitments' are potentially … are disconnected from the WTO and virtually impossible to multilateralize. Based on a review of some 80,000 commitments in … their dosage in terms of sectors, measures and modes of supply. It also discusses potential remedies from a WTO perspective …

design and functioning of these dispute settlement mechanisms (DSMs) and, more specifically, how they differ from the WTO … of jurisdictional conflict between DSMs of RTAs and the WTO dispute settlement system. Literature mapping out and … WTO and were in force at the end of 2012, and consider a typology of these DSMs based on their nature and design. We also …