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The World Trade Organization (WTO) serves as a key forum for negotiating global trade rules, yet it faces significant … unresolved. Additionally, the WTO's dispute settlement system has been weakened, undermining the enforcement of its rules and … about the role of developing countries in world trade and how the WTO can serve their interests. This essay examines the …
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-so-poor beneficiaries also expand foreign sales, but only if they are not WTO members. For all others, the average export effects of NRTPs …
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.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits to see whether political friends of the U.S. receive favorable treatment. While …
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of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) of the European Union (EU). EU GSP members receive non-reciprocal trade … preferences (NRTPs), but only as long as they are not too competitive; i.e. they will graduate in case their share of EU GSP …-related graduations for members of the so-called "GSP+", a sub-scheme of the main programme. We find that the reform increased EU imports …
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The European Union (EU) supports developing countries with a unilateral trade preference scheme. The scheme underwent a major reform in 2014, in which many countries lost access to reduced tariff rates. We analyse how this radical step that removed preferences from 103 countries by 2018 fits...
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World Trade Organization (WTO). To revive multilateralism, it is crucial to pursue a positive approach based on the … global trading system at the same time. They should be exclusive, appealing and based on the experience of the GATT and WTO … involving all current WTO member states right from the beginning. The TCC could draw on the potential of trade policy to …
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security of market access result from increased membership of the GATT/WTO system, which itself underwent important changes as … a result of the Uruguay Round, further developed in the first Ministerial Meeting of the WTO in Singapore in December … 1996. The systemic changes and the expansion of WTO membership to the transition and other economies mark a dramatic change …
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The WTO has increased international disciplines on export policy, but there is still scope for the use of export …
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The EU model is being progressively transmitted to other economies through expansion of membership and various preferential agreements. Since EU trade polices have been criticised in a number of respects, this could be a matter of concern to the international community. However, in the case of...
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Market access negotiations in merchandise trade at the multilateral level cover tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs). While tariffs have been substantially reduced in earlier rounds, they remain high in certain areas and further reductions involve a number of complex technical issues. Some...
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