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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic …
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Winners and losers in the panel stage of the WTO dispute settlement system
Hoekman, Bernard M. (contributor); Horn, Henrik (contributor) - 2008
A significant body of research has sought to examine claims that developing countries are underrepresented as complainants, and/or over-represented as respondents in the WTO dispute settlement system. Most of this literature has focused on their propensity to participate, the idea being that...
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The harmonized system : amendments and their impact on WTO members' schedules
Yu, Dayong - 2008
The Harmonized System is normally amended by the World Customs Organization every four to six years. These amendments pose considerable challenges for the WTO and its Members. On the one hand, Members need to periodically update their historical schedules of concessions into the latest...
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LDC Poverty Alleviation and the Doha Development Agenda : is tourism being neglected?
Honeck, Dale - 2008
When tourism's impressive potential for poverty alleviation is considered, the lack of attention is even more striking. Reasons for the apparent neglect are complex, and include a lack of awareness of tourism as an export sector, the fragmented nature of the industry and low political influence,...
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The economics of permissible WTO retaliation
Bown, Chad P.; Ruta, Michele - 2008
We examine how theoretical and quantitative economic analysis has and can be used in this stage of the DSU process. First, we identify, characterize, and categorize the major classes of disputes e.g., those affecting import protection versus export promotion and use the Bagwell and Staiger...
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Antidumping as strategic trade policy under asymmetric information
Matschke, Xenia; Schöttner, Anja - 2009
This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where … the foreign firm's cost is observed by the domestic firm, but not by the government. To induce truthful revelation, the … government can design a tariff schedule, contingent on firms' cost reports, accompanied by a threat of auditing and implementing …
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The burden of proof in national treatment disputes and the environment
Horn, Henrik - 2009
This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements. In the situation under study, imports may cause environmental damage, in which case less favorable treatment of imported products may be globally desirable from an international...
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Can a preferential trade agreement benefit neighbor countries without compensating them?
Endoh, Masahiro; Hamada, Kōichi; Shimomura, Kōji - 2008
PTAs are generally negotiated without any tariff concessions or transfers to non-member countries. Can such a PTA benefit the neighbors’ welfare? In a two-good competitive equilibrium model in the absence of an entrepôt, a PTA without concessions to the outside will hurt the outsider’s...
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The WTO and environmental provisions : three categories of trade and environment linkage
Khalilian, Setareh (contributor) - 2009
The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to...
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Climate policy options and the World Trade Organization
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde; Kim, Jisun - 2009
This paper examines whether the climate policy options policymakers are contemplating are compatible with core principles of the world trading system set forth in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and Appellate Body decisions. The authors...
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