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WTO-based concern. …
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The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was established to promote the exports of low-income countries to … complex and the effects of GSP have been found to be controversial. While previous studies solely analyzed preferential … the overall and dynamic effects common to the various GSP schemes in order to provide generalized recommendations for …
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Almost eight years after the launch of the Doha Round, the WTO negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with … could be achieved; whether there are alternative approaches to WTO negotiations that could be explored for the future; and … what a future negotiating agenda might look like. It concludes with some reflections on the prospects for the WTO at the …
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develop a realistic base1ine that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the enlargement of the …
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This paper looks at the possibilities of a concluding "Bali package" on the issues that are currently engaging the WTO …
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There are essentially two types of plurilateral trade agreements (PAs) among WTO Members, an exclusive and an open … discussions. This article takes a sceptical view, since any such PA would need to be agreed by consensus among all 160-odd WTO … treaty frameworks, as "WTO-extra" understandings. …
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question, providing detailed coverage on three key design features of the GATT/WTO: reciprocity, nondiscrimination as embodied … GATT/WTO and we argue that an economic perspective can go a long way toward revealing a consistent logic to the inclusion …
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-so-poor beneficiaries also expand foreign sales, but only if they are not WTO members. For all others, the average export effects of NRTPs …
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The Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) received much scholarly attention when it was first established in 1989, but has been overshadowed of late by dispute settlement processes. This paper examines the relationship between barriers to trade that are flagged by the World Trade Organization's...
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under auspices of the WTO since the launch of the Doha Development Agenda, part of a small package of decisions centering on … cooperation on regulatory matters in the WTO. The TFA illustrates both the potential and the difficulty of negotiating generally … applicable stand-alone agreements in the WTO and demonstrates the importance of issue linkage in achieving cooperation in trade …
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