Current U.S. trade policy stresses establishing free trade areas (FTAs) with partners spanning the globe. Motivations … include enhancing goods and services trade; stimulating investment flows; extending standards on intellectual property rights … importance of trade complementarity, trade diversion, and welfare losses for nonmembers. Agriculture and textiles play a central …

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 … Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody …

, economic recovery, and positive economic growth in the midst of a world financial and economic crisis. …

suggest that protectionist pressures may rise. Gaps in World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments leave ample scope to further … restrictions is modest, at about 0.25 percent of global trade, as most countries have resisted a widespread resort to protectionism … restrict trade, so unless all countries vigorously resist protectionism this could threaten the economic recovery and drag down …

The 1994 Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (the WTO Agreement), requires each WTO member to … annexed Agreements.†It is natural for the issue of WTO conformity to be a subject of much attention if it should arise in … the most representative and the only compulsory dispute settlement in the world. It is this conformity that the paper …

primarily, in light of the relevant GATT/WTO provisions and the EC's sugar reform proposals, the implications the Dispute …While the benefits of preferential trade agreements granted by the European Communities to the ACP countries have been … contested in some quarters. Whenever multilateral trade negotiations move towards reducing most-favoured-nation tariffs …

—never been used to measure intra-Arab trade. Our results suggest that intra-Arab trade and Arab trade with the rest of the world …This paper estimates a gravity model to address the issue of whether intra-Arab trade is too little. Although gravity … models have been extensively used to measure bilateral trade among countries, they have—to the best of our knowledge …

This book takes a penetrating look at major challenges to the World Trade Organization and the future of trade …