incorporated into the GATT/WTO legal framework so as to permit the derogation of most-favored-nation (MFN) obligations. … countries, which are known as North-South RTAs. Under the current legal system of the WTO, North-South RTAs are governed by … Article XXIV of the GATT or Article V of the GATS, which means such RTAs must be reciprocal and must cover substantially all …

provisions under the World Trade Organization (WTO) which in turn resulted in a tremendous impact on the ambitious Agreement on … paper delves to analyse the corollaries of this mandate on emerging economies, under the auspices of the WTO …

the latest TRIPS Council meeting of 11-12 June 2013, WTO Members have accepted this reality and granted LDCs a second … meaningfully integrate the poorest countries into the WTO system for the protection of intellectual property. The authors first … international organizations under the transitional arrangements in the TRIPS Agreement, subsequent WTO legislation and in particular …

not HS member states in 2017. Three non-members are advanced economies (all three are WTO members): Hong Kong, Macao and … publications for the signature and ratification of the Harmonised System Convention and by help of WTO publications on their …

significant arrangements for so-called “special and differential treatment,” which at the WTO includes expanded market access for …

A number of recent studies have shown that using the WTO’s dispute settlement procedure is seldom a straightforward … participation at the WTO. The second section provides a statistical analysis of the pace of dispute settlement, by examining cases … initiated in the fifteen years since the WTO Agreement came into force, between January 1, 1995 and December 31, 2009. The third …

significant progress in implementing the TRIPS Agreement. WTO Members have accepted this reality and are currently considering … Agreement, subsequent WTO legislation and in particular the TRIPS Council Decision of 2005. Next, the authors identify several …

World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally … trade retaliation---such as the WTO---but not under agreements extended to include certain financial instruments. In …

Special and differential treatment (S&D) allows differentiated treatment for developing countries within the WTO system … by justifying a deviation from the most-favoured-nation obligation. Since it was incorporated into the GATT (the … predecessor of the WTO) in the 1960s, S&D has played a significant role in promoting the integration of developing countries into …

least developed countries (LDCs). Since the inception of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations in 2001, the WTO and …. However, this is inadequate; for the proposed ‘DDA-MDGs hybrid’, a super AfT is needed. The WTO, other development … multilateral agreement, and it has been a core promise since GATT. However, for designing an inclusive system, special and …