The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2 … of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351 WTO disputes initiated through the official filing of a Request …

complainants, and/or over-represented as respondents in the WTO dispute settlement system. Most of this literature has focused on … claims made in each WTO dispute between 1995 and 2006, as well as a rough classification as to whether each specific claim …

The Dispute Settlement (DS) system is a central feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement. This … compulsory and binding two-level mechanism for the adjudication of disputes between WTO Members is the most active among … WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set. The data set covers all 426 WTO disputes initiated through the official filing of a …

started with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth … other is to stay idle and accept that the WTO must accommodate different economic regimes, no matter how idiosyncratic. In … that, while in the past the GATT/WTO had to address the accession of socialist countries or of big trading nations, it …

China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was rightly hailed as a huge step forward in … international cooperation. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth, with China alienating some of its … trading partners, particularly the United States. The mismatch between the WTO framework and China's economic model has …