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 …

The continuous application of Special Section 301 by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR … and practices identified by the USTR show a legitimate use of the flexibilities provided for by the Agreement on Trade …

It has been alleged since its inception that the WTO Dispute Settlement (DS) mechanism is biased against developing … the determinants of developing country participation in the DS system, using bilateral industry-level trade data, and a …

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody …

World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements were adopted in 1994, a moratorium was put in place until WTO Members could agree …While the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) provided for the applicability of … the TRIPS Council on the subject have remained inconclusive. The biannual WTO Ministerial Conference has granted …

The paper discusses various milestones in the process of multilateral trade negotiations, pinpoints current challenges … facing the world trading order, and proposes possible ways out of the persistent impasse. Hufbauer argues that the success of … the multilateral approach is at least partly because the GATT departed from the strictly unconditional definition of the …

The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2 ….0) that the authors have compiled for the World Bank. The data set contains approximately 28 000 observations on the workings … of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351 WTO disputes initiated through the official filing of a Request …

trade policies. The WTO regularly examines its members' trade policies - but its reports tend to be superficial and … compare trade policies across time and countries. Furthermore, they should reveal the economy-wide costs of protectionism and …The economic crisis has sparked fears about emerging protectionism and created wide interest in initiatives to monitor …

countries, trade preferences haveproven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization … WTO-based concern. …

The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defense in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against … internal taxation under the GATT. It is shown that despite severely restricting the freedom to set internal taxes, NT may …. Furthermore, it requires a high degree of economic sophistication on behalf of trade negotiators in order for this beneficial …