This article is concerned with the nature and application of the most-favoured-nation (MFN) principle under the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) plurilateral Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA). After establishing the context of the WTO GPA, the paper first assesses how the MFN...

The revised World Trade Organization (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), which came into force on April 6, 2014, provides a limited number of WTO Members with a framework for ensuring that the tenders scheduled under the Appendix to WTO GPA are conducted in a competitive,...

This paper identifies the legal and economic assessments applied to resolve WTO disputes requiring an assessment of the contribution of the measure to the objective pursued, along with identifying any reasonably available alternatives. It focuses on disputes encompassing an interpretation of...

This paper identifies the positive regulatory externalities that can be realised from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA), Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) and other international conventions with public procurement provisions. It submits that despite the multiplicity of...

This article identifies the positive regulatory externalities that can be realised from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (“WTO GPA”), Regional Trade Agreements (“RTAs”) and other international conventions with public procurement provisions. It submits that despite the...

This article assesses the regulation of government procurement in the WTO, specifically under the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA), the General Agreement on Tariffs in Trade (GATT), the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing...