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Trade issues affecting disaster response
Roberts, Michael; Mohammed, Nazia - 2017 - Manuscript date: March 2017
The frequency, severity and economic impact of natural disasters are growing. Import surges resulting from disaster-response efforts can highlight underlying structural failings in the border clearance regimes of disaster-affected countries. Relief supplies, specialized personnel and agencies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632722
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TBT and Trade Facilitation Agreements : leveraging linkages to reduce trade costs
Ayral, Serra - 2016 - Manuscript date: 01 June 2016
World Trade Report. At the same time, many WTO Agreements already contain provisions aimed at facilitating trade procedures … 2015 World Trade Report refers to "border agency cooperation" as the main TFA implementation challenge identified by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482193
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National environmental policies and multilateral trade rules
Jansen, Marion; Keck, Alexander - 2004 - Manuscript date: January 2004
This paper provides an overview of institutional, economic and legal aspects of the relationship between national environmental policies and the multilateral trading system. In particular, it analyses some of the difficulties the WTO Dispute Settlement System faces when having to evaluate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010205556
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The GATT ‘Escape Clause’ : Analyzing Article XIX and the Safeguard Agreement
Sachdeva, Daksh - 2023
The General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade facilitated liberal trade of goods globally by opening up domestic markets and reducing interference of states in trade. The proposition of the GATT to some extent meant curtailing sovereign powers of the state. Countries were cognizant of the fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014353638
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Life after Doha : Some Reflections in the Run-Up to the 9th WTO Ministerial on Bali
Lacey, Simon - 2017
a broader initiative by the World Trade Institute (WTI), the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA … that the WTO is still the best organization the world has for tackling a number of increasingly pressing issues, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954523
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The WTO at a Crossroads : Destination, Doha. Pitstop, Bali. Opportunities for Reform of the World Trading System
Cantore, Carlo Maria - 2016
Trade experts gathered at the European University Institute (EUI) to talk about the major challenges the World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986923
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Regulatory Regionalism in the WTO - Are ‘Deep Integration’ Processes Compatible with the Multilateral Trading System?
Mathis, James H. - 2013
This chapter examines the thesis that regulatory policies treated in regional trade agreements have an inherently WTO multilateral character, as they are designed and applied on a most-favoured nation (MFN) basis. It surveys general transparency and dispute settlement provisions and selected WTO...
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Doha's Development
Cho, Sungjoon - 2014
This Essay argues that the current development crisis within the Doha Round is inextricably linked to the nature of modern day trade negotiations. This Round reveals a bargaining process in which the powerful can too easily exploit and prevail over the powerless. This process is also vulnerable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057434
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Development and the World Trade Organization : Proposal for the Agreement on Development Facilitation and the Council for Trade and Development in the WTO
Lee, Yong-Shik - 2013
Facilitating economic development of developing countries has become an important agenda in the world trading system …, currently represented by the World Trade Organization, will depend on bridging these gaps between developed and developing … regulatory reform to promote development in the current system. The paper also proposes organizational reform in the World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050671
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The WTO and the Doha Negotiation in Crisis?
Herwig, Alexia - 2015
Is the World Trade Organization (WTO) in a legitimacy crisis and might the protracted Doha negotiations be evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132647