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 …

Over the past two decades, India and Pakistan have been involved in several activities regar ding bilateral trade … waves of trade-related activity reflected in popular media coverage? This question connects to a longstanding and important …-security issues such as trade. A dearth of popular awareness on trade-related activities between India and Pakistan may limit the …

As a democracy develops and matures, the number of interest groups attempting to voice their interests with respect to … trade policies tends to increase, and sometimes governments collide with them in the process of enacting restraints. This … paper aims to investigate empirically the role of interest groups in Korea's trade policy, utilizing the Grossman and …

Trade Policy does not always follow sound economic theory. The outcome of trade policy formulation is determined by …

threat of revolution. Initially, a ruling elite may be able to use trade policy to maintain political stability. But a world … of national income per capita and democracy may not be positively correlated. The model is also useful for understanding …

This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two … by studying the endogenous interaction between the form of government and trade policy. The paper's second contribution … is to show how a dictatorship can manipulate trade policy to maintain its grip on power in the face of permanent world …

security of market access result from increased membership of the GATT/WTO system, which itself underwent important changes as …In the last ten years, there has been a sea change in trade and related policies in emerging markets. This results from … eliminated and tariffs, now the principal trade instrument, have been rationalized and reduced. Considerable increases in …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

In order to ensure transparency and to keep abreast of trade policies in support of sustainability, the WTO Committee … on Trade and Environment (CTE) mandated the WTO Secretariat to compile and collate all environment-related measures … notified to WTO. The database also includes environment-related entries found in Trade Policy Reviews (TPRs). This information …

In 2019 and the early months of 2020, global trade faced two major albeit very different shocks, namely the United … States-China trade war and the cascading response of the countries around the world to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the … broad swathe of tradeables that made a global trade environment highly unpredictable, the latter has seen entire production …