impact follows from erosion of EU preferences. This suggests the erosion problem is primarily bilateral rather than a WTO …

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 … leveraging existing WTO bodies to enhance the transparency of nontariff measures, address regulatory concerns that impede …

This paper discusses the challenges confronting developing countries seeking to use WTO negotiations to promote their … 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 … countries, as well some proposals that would expand the scope to pursue cooperation on regulatory policies in the WTO as opposed …

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 …

Plurilateral agreements in the WTO context allow sub-sets of countries to agree to commitments in specific policy areas … that only apply to signatories, and thus allow for ‘variable geometry’ in the WTO. Current WTO rules make it much more … difficult to pursue the plurilateral route than to negotiate a preferential trade agreement outside the WTO. We argue that this …