membership into the world trading system, the WTO may face a "latecomers" problem that, while occurring also in earlier rounds …A fundamental objective of the Doha Round of WTO negotiations is to improve the trading prospects of developing … countries. The 2001 declaration from the WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar, commits the member governments to …

acquire private information over time. In this context, we provide equilibrium interpretations of GATT/WTO negotiations … regarding upper bounds on applied tariffs and GATT/WTO escape clauses. We find that governments achieve greater welfare when … also provides a novel interpretation of a feature of the WTO Safeguard Agreement, under which escape clause actions cannot …

purposes is that they represent a rare instance of essentially unilateral actions that are permissible within the WTO: under … anti-dumping actions, the WTO Agreement on Implementation of Article VI represents an extraordinarily detailed attempt by … WTO member governments to 'reign in' this potential through a detailed set of rules governing the acceptable methodologies …

In this paper I sketch out the rough contours of the challenge faced by the WTO in dealing with non-tariff measures … (NTMs) as seen from the economic theories of trade agreements. The key questions for the WTO - the answers to which largely … the commitment problem that WTO member governments seek to solve with their WTO membership?; and Is it market clearing or …