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Despite the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) between nations today, academics and policy makers alike have yet to fully understand why trading nations actively pursue free trade agreements. With what aim do governments enter into an FTA? In this paper, we propose that the...
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territoriality principle and examine their WTO consistency. We propose that outward processing provisions that conform to substantial …
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the WTO rules that deal with RTAs (GATT Article XXIV, the Enabling Clause, and GATS Article V), the main trends identified …With the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, the pyramidal design of the international trading … economic policies of WTO Member States at the bottom of the pyramid. This article questions whether this vertical structure is …
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Integration may be viewed as an evolutionary outgrowth of heightened social and economic interdependence brought about by advances in technology. As persons, goods, capital, services and ideas cross artificial national frontiers at increased rates of speed, the wisdom of imposing disparate...
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The construction of international trade accords has sparked controversy among a range of critics concerned with competing economic and social priorities. This dispute over a “free trade” agenda occasionally spills into the streets as the debate gains a public platform during high profile...
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WTO Agreement, GATT Article XXIV, TRIPS Article 4(d) and free trade agreements. Theses rules affect the lives and health …In the Doha Declaration WTO Members committed themselves to implementing and interpreting the TRIPS Agreement to allow … [TRIPS] Agreement can and should be interpreted and implemented in a manner supportive of WTO Members' right to protect …
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In the context of a current global economic crisis and an unfinished World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round … impact on the international trading system, the debate about regionalism and multilateralism, and the policy of the WTO …
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been notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which in theory quot;regulatesquot; them under Article XXIV of the … General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).1 For example, free trade fever has reached such partners as Chile-China, Japan … which poses systemic risk to the WTO.2Far more than elsewhere in the world, United States free trade agreements in the …
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litmus test for the EU's commitment to the WTO cause. When appropriate, the article draws parallels with existing EU …
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