The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political … arguably requires greater recognition of the value of trade policy disciplines that will be part of any agreement. The WTO is … rules of the game for other trade-related policies. Given the slow progress of the Round, greater emphasis could be put on …

Following the onset of the financial crisis in September 2008 and the subsequent “Great Trade Collapse” (Baldwin 2009 …), many countries actively used trade policy instruments as part of their response to the global recession. Governments … pursued a mix of trade liberalization, trade promotion, and trade restrictions. The choice of trade policy has varied, with …

The last Chapter explores the role of Aid for Trade (AfT) in enabling LDCs to utilize the opportunities from the …

countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. We … impact follows from erosion of EU preferences. This suggests the erosion problem is primarily bilateral rather than a WTO …

This paper argues that further moves to liberalize trade and to implement existing GATT disciplines may have a greater … that current GATT rules and case law provide scope for both the application <MI>and<D> non-application of existing domestic … between domestic and foreign products. Little use has been made of the GATT in this connection, suggesting that exploration of …

This paper discusses the challenges confronting developing countries seeking to use WTO negotiations to promote their … outcome is a significant reduction in barriers to trade in goods and services. This will have a much greater beneficial impact … help to enhance the development-relevance of the WTO. …

The deadlock in the WTO Doha Round has been accompanied by an increased focus on the negotiation of preferential trade … identified through which such countries might attenuate the potential downsides of preferential trade liberalization among large … countries, as well some proposals that would expand the scope to pursue cooperation on regulatory policies in the WTO as opposed …

Agreement on Trade in Services, are far from fully exploited and provide significant opportunities for governments to improve …

Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation—measures to … those benefits are distributed across and within nations. After discussing the possible impacts of trade facilitation, we … benefit from trade facilitation. We find that firms of all sizes export more in response to improved trade facilitation. Our …

under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … the WTO. The case marked the first WTO dispute in which a challenged safeguard was upheld by the Appellate Body; the first … reviews the WTO Appellate Body’s findings and discusses a number of the legal and policy implications regarding China …