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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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Bilateral Free Trade Agreements : A Critical Assessment and WTO Regulatory Reform Proposal
Folsom, Ralph - 2013
regulation under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), and critically … trade medium of today, but very likely the future. Already more than half of world trade is conducted under bilaterals …. They could render MFN the least favored status in world trade. Such an outcome would be especially harmful to the world …
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How does the regular work of WTO influence regional trade agreements? : the case of international standards and the TBT Committee
McDaniels, Devin; Molina, Ana Cristina; Wijkström, Erik - 2018 - Manuscript date: 23 March 2018
This paper illustrates how the work of the WTO's standing committees is fuelling regulatory cooperation between WTO members, and inspiring RTA negotiators. We explore, as a case study, how the WTO TBT Committee has shaped provisions on international standards in RTAs, and focus on the extent to...
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From GATS to APEC : The Impact of Trade Agreements on Legal Services
Terry, Laurel S. - 2010
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the treatment of legal services in the United States’ international trade agreements. Although many individuals are now familiar with the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), far fewer realize that legal services are included in at...
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An analysis of the new trade regime for state-owned enterprises under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Yun, Mikyung - In: Journal of East Asian economic integration 20 (2016) 1, pp. 3-35
This paper analyses the new discipline on state-owned enterprises contained in the recently concluded Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, and evaluates various factors that influenced the shaping of its specific rules. The new discipline consolidates and strengthens related provisions in...
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An Analysis of the New Trade Regime for State-Owned Enterprises Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Yun, Mikyung - 2016
This paper analyses the new discipline on state-owned enterprises contained in the recently concluded Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, and evaluates various factors that influenced the shaping of its specific rules. The new discipline consolidates and strengthens related provisions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128075
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Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?
Aaronson, Susan Ariel - 2014
Corruption (the abuse of entrusted authority for illicit gain) is pervasive, hard to measure, and damaging both to economic growth and human rights. Corruption is also intimately associated with trade. However, the international organization governing trade, the WTO, says nothing about...
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Is technical assistance under free trade agreements WTO-plus? : a review of Japan-ASEAN economic partnership agreements
Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2011
have not been thoroughly conducted. This paper presents a detailed textual analysis of World Trade Organization (WTO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283425
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Trade and Investment Agreements : What Role for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Economic Law?
Haugen, Hans Morten - 2015
Are economic, social and cultural rights actually taken into account when arbitration or adjudicating bodies (panels or tribunals) seek to solve disputes arising under international economic law (IEL)? The term ‘human rights' is seldom applied in the substantive provisions of trade or...
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