While to an economist, business person or policy maker, movement of goods, services and foreign direct investment should logically be covered in the same agreement, history has not allowed this to happen. International legal regimes are spinning into greater fragmentation as the number of...

There is not one, perfect model for institutional regulatory cooperation, nor is there a single model for eliminating technical barriers to trade or discriminatory sanitary and phytosanitary measures in a preferential trade agreement (PTA). However, recent experience with PTAs has shown that it...

There is a great deal of misunderstanding and confusion about what the World Trade Organization (WTO) is, what it does, and how it works. The misconceptions, myths and fallacies about the WTO are numerous, but the author focuses on a few key questions central to the legitimacy of the WTO. Who...