China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was rightly hailed as a huge step forward in … international cooperation. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth, with China alienating some of its … trading partners, particularly the United States. The mismatch between the WTO framework and China's economic model has …

The Evolution of the Trade Regime offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world …'s multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization … (WTO). While other books confine themselves to describing contemporary GATT/WTO legal rules or analyzing their economic …

industrialized world. The final Uruguay Round negotiations extended GATT's reach to agriculture, services, and intellectual property … integrate the world economy in the 21st century …The principal intersections between competition and trade policies are analyzed in depth. Scherer shows how export and …

The purpose of the paper is to discuss the effects of WTO accession on policy-making and institutional reforms in … WTO. We start by examining the effect of accession on trade policy and distinguish between the effects of accession … and macroeconomic management. We find that no precise blueprint of accession conditions can be ascertained, that WTO …

-lose outcome for the world. China must therefore, in its own interests, help to reduce international tension by updating its … strategy of international economic engagement. China has to go beyond being a passive beneficiary of the WTO system to being an … active promoter of WTO objectives. China should work with the US to bring Doha Rounds negotiations to a successful conclusion …

Contributed articles on commercial policy and trade regulation in India in light of WTO policy …