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European Community-Sugar : Cross-Subsidization and the World Trade Organization
Howse, Robert - 2016
An important recent World Trade Organization dispute settlement case for many developing countries concerned European … being used to cover losses associated with exports of sugar to the world market. Although in principle the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747624
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Proposals for WTO Reform : A Synthesis and Assessment
Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2017
This paper summarizes the major arguments and proposals to reform the modus operandi of the World Trade Organization … internal and external transparency of World Trade Organization processes. Some proposals for structural reform ignore incentive … constraints and the fact that the World Trade Organization is an incomplete contract that must be self-enforcing. Others -- such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976212
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Cotton Subsidies, the WTO, and The'Cotton Problem'
Baffes, John - 2017
Following an 8-year long dispute over cotton subsidies, Brazil and the United States signed a Memorandum of Understanding on April 21, 2010, effectively paving the way for settling the dispute. This paper argues that cotton subsidies are just the tip of the iceberg while a number of other,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976001
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Trade Policy Flexibilities and Turkey : Tariffs, Antidumping, Safeguards, and WTO Dispute Settlement
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
Trade policy commitments to lower import tariffs and to maintain tariffs at low levels entail short and long-run political-economic costs and benefits. Empirical work examining the relationship between such commitments and the exercise of trade policy flexibilities is still relatively nascent,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974687
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U.S. Antidumping : Much Ado About Zeroing
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
The United States use of "zeroing" in its antidumping procedures has become a political flash point threatening some legitimacy of the WTO's dispute settlement system. This paper provides a positive analysis of the zeroing issue, explains how it has evolved and who is likely to be affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976479
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Developing Countries, Dispute Settlement, and the Advisory Centre on WTO Law
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
Critical appraisals of the current and potential benefits from developing country engagement in the World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976741
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Trade Agreements and Enforcement : Evidence from WTO Dispute Settlement
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
outcomes from World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes over 1995?2009. The evidence is consistent with theoretical predictions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937322
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Arbitrating and Mediating Disputes : Benchmarking Arbitration and Mediation Regimes for Commercial Disputes Related to Foreign Direct Investment
Pouget, Sophie - 2017
investment inflows and inflows per capita, the Doing Business 2013 Enforcing Contracts data, the World Bank Group's Governance … Indicators, the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Indicators, and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency …'s World Investment and Political Risk data. The paper concludes by identifying several opportunities for improvement, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973934
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Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries
Hertel, Thomas W. - 2016
Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be almost immune to serious reform, and one of their most common defenses is that they protect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747917
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The World Trade Organization and Antidumping in Developing Countries
Bown, Chad P. - 2016
Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747971