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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...
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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 …
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This article provides an overview of the “trade and environment” interface in the WTO and proposes a new paradigm for making progress. The article reviews recent developments in WTO adjudication and negotiations and examines the institutional interplay of international trade and biosafety...
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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 …
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provisions under the World Trade Organization (WTO) which in turn resulted in a tremendous impact on the ambitious Agreement on … facilitation was exclusively to serve the needs of the developed world, where the latter could, as a result of these measures gain … a better access to the markets of the developing world. However, trade facilitation in emerging economies could witness …
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Trade experts gathered at the European University Institute (EUI) to talk about the major challenges the World Trade …
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available from foreign sources and, most importantly, how available vaccines would be as most of the world’s countries could not … produce any. Effective public policy cannot be made in the dark. The World Trade Organization, and the General Agreement on …
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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...
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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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Is the World Trade Organization (WTO) in a legitimacy crisis and might the protracted Doha negotiations be evidence of …
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