As the Doha negotiations are at a dead end, this paper takes a step back to address the future direction of WTO disciplines in agriculture. It puts members' negotiating positions and the draft modalities with their ever growing list of exceptions aside to focus on three fundamental questions....

To impose antidumping duties consistently with the WTO, a national antidumping authority must show that the dumping has caused injury to the domestic industry producing a like product. Antidumping methodology splits this requirement into two component questions: a. does the local industry...

The economic crisis has sparked fears about emerging protectionism and created wide interest in initiatives to monitor trade policies. The WTO regularly examines its members' trade policies - but its reports tend to be superficial and uncritical. How could they be improved to become a more...

Internet is a global market place. The rapid development of the Internet, and especially of Internet-based commerce, has largely taken place outside the standard trade-regulatory frameworks that cover most other forms of cross-border commerce. As the size of the Internet markets has grown, and...

Am 28. September 2017 stellte die Projektgruppe Gemeinschaftsdiagnose in Berlin ihr Herbstgutachten der Presse vor. Sie geht davon aus, dass der Aufschwung der deutschen Wirtschaft an Stärke und Breite gewonnen hat. Neben den Konsumausgaben tragen nun auch das Auslandsgeschäft und die...