's application for WTO membership, just twenty-four hours after approving China's admission. After Taiwan's Congress ratified the … January 1, 2002.Taiwan's choice of this tedious title in the WTO, instead of its official name, Republic of China (ROC), shows … because of China's insistence that Taiwan can only accede to the WTO after its entry and because most countries were concerned …

I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General …/WTO membership on the coefficient of variation in trade computed over 25-year samples, controlling for a number of factors. I also … use a comparable multilateral data set. There is little evidence that membership in the GATT/WTO has a significant …