In a rapidly changing trade environment, marked by economic slowdown and impasse in the Doha Round, the success of the WTO in promoting and legitimizing the rules-based multilateral trading system rests, to a large extent, on maintaining effective relations with civil society, including...

In a rapidly changing trade environment, marked by economic slowdown and impasse in the Doha Round, the success of the WTO in promoting and legitimizing the rules-based multilateral trading system rests, to a large extent, on maintaining effective relations with civil society, including...

In a rapidly changing trade environment, marked by economic slowdown and impasse in the Doha Round, the success of the WTO in promoting and legitimizing the rules-based multilateral trading system rests, to a large extent, on maintaining effective relations with civil society, including...

This paper tries to assess quantitatively the role of electronic commerce in economic activity and in trade and tariff revenue collection. The share of value added that potentially lends itself to electronic trade represents around 30 percent of GDP, most importantly distribution, finance and...

The study profiles post-Uruguay Round market access conditions in three areas - industrial tariffs, agriculture and services - the latter two of which are already the subject of ongoing negotiations.

Cette étude de l'OMC explique les liens fondamentaux entre le commerce et le secteur financier, et les relations d'interdépendance entre les crises financières et le commerce.

Elle a pour but de donner des informations de base aux Membres de l'OMC qui sont en train de définir la ligne de conduite à adopter face à cette nouvelle forme d'échanges. Rédigée par une équipe d'économistes du Secrétariat de l'OMC, elle décrit la complexité ainsi que les avantages...

The study shows that trade could play a positive role in the diffusion of environment-friendly technologies around the world and is backed up by the five case studies on chemical-intensive agriculture, deforestation, global warming, acid rain, and overfishing.

En s'appuyant sur cinq études de cas concernant l'agriculture intensive, la déforestation, le réchauffement de la planète, les pluies acides et la surpêche, elle montre que le commerce pourrait jouer un rôle positif dans la diffusion de technologies respectueuses de l'environnement dans le...

Un estudio efectuado por la Secretaría de la OMC, El comercio electrónico y el papel de la OMC, analiza los beneficios que la utilización de Internet para fines comerciales puede suponer para el comercio en general. El informe, obra de un equipo de economistas de la Secretaría de la OMC,...