The Doha Round continues to struggle on with its ultimate fate still largely uncertain. This paper, written as part of a broader initiative by the World Trade Institute (WTI), the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and Universitas Pelita Haparan (UPH) in the run up to the...

This White Paper was the first elaboration by the global technology giant of its position on the emerging set of international trade rules to govern the digital economy in fora such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the WTO e-commerce negotiations

The present paper shares some of the author's thoughts on WTO accession after several years of observing and analyzing the WTO as an institution, a set of agreements and a place where countries meet to battle it out with one another in pursuit of their own jealously protected national interests....

In several recent cases brought before the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, several WTO Members have been taken to task for supposedly failing to comply with their obligations on establishing that a causal link existed between imports and injury caused to a domestic industry while at the same time...

The bed linen dispute provided a welcome and long overdue opportunity to throw some light on, and perhaps reign in some of the more blatant and excessive abuses of the European Commission's anti-dumping practices, which over the years, have come under repeated attack by a broad range of legal...

This paper has been prepared for the Islamic Development Bank's Seminar on WTO Accession Issues for selected OIC Member Countries, taking place on 28 -29 March 2006, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It offers a detour from the well-trodden ground of WTO accession procedures and the challenges acceding...

A number of legislative frameworks and policies exercise various constraints on access to the Internet for certain goods, services, and other content. Some of these are recognized by most, if not all market participants as legitimate (data protection laws, measures to combat fraud, as well as...