WTO-based concern. …

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. Plurilateral agreements share a number … distinguishes them from the general, nondiscriminatory agreements that are negotiated among—and apply to—all WTO Members. Current …

review the limited progress achieved to date in the WTO and major regional agreements on services and possible explanations …

by Fedon (an Italian producer of eye glass cases) from the EU for the imposition of WTO-authorized retaliatory trade … barriers by the United States following the failure by the EU to comply with an adverse ruling by the WTO regarding its import … WTO-illegal protection, at the expense of a set of EU exporters, including Fedon, that were hit by US countermeasures. By …

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 …, other industrialized countries, and developing countries have won the claims that they have made before panels. -- WTO …