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Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), adopted by WTO Members in 2014, seeks to expedite the movement, release and clearance of … World Trade Report. At the same time, many WTO Agreements already contain provisions aimed at facilitating trade procedures … WTO Agreements such as the SPS Agreement) will be crucial for effective implementation. It will also contribute to more …
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Increasing moves away from multilateralism have created a fragmented trade and investment scenario where economies progressively combine the application of restrictive unilateral actions with bilateral and regional preferences. The application of, and exceptions to, the non-discrimination...
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(GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent …
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A major challenge for the multilateral trading system is to secure the benefits of trade liberalization without infringing on the freedom of governments to pursue legitimate domestic objectives. The difficulty lies in distinguishing between two types of situations. In one, a non-protectionist...
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This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as a mechanism for multilateral liberalization efforts. It...
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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 … that the WTO is losing its centrality in the international trading system. The thesis of this article is that the …
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In December of 2011, the Parties to the World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) adopted significant revisions to the Agreement. The revised Agreement comprises (a) a much-needed modernization of the text of the Agreement, (b) an expansion of related market-access...
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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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) and Universitas Pelita Haparan (UPH) in the run up to the ninth WTO Ministerial Conference on Bali in December 2013 … fate of the WTO from that of what is now a largely moribund round of multilateral trade negotiations. This paper argues … that the WTO is still the best organization the world has for tackling a number of increasingly pressing issues, and that …
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procurement commitments under the WTO's Agreement on Government Procurement, as well as in their respective preferential trade …
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