each other. The methodology followed involved surveying each RTA in the sample to determine whether it made reference to … in each RTA is then used to classify agreements according to their level of IP content. The first significant identified …

increase RTA partners' rights to take antidumping actions at the intra-RTA level, and only a minority of regimes contains … patterns of the RTA Parties. The Paper notes, however, that deep integration among a few RTAs has been decisive in bringing … about a substantial change in the antidumping patterns of the RTA Parties concerned. It finds that legal consolidation, at …

of national treatment and market access and have compared directly commitments undertaken under the three families of … agreements. One may even note a certain tendency to a convergence towards the GATS model (e.g. the addition of market access …

/WTO up to 31 December 2012. In particular, it identifies those RTAs that modify the conditions applicable to the RTA partner … (either substantively or procedurally) in the event that a global safeguard is invoked. In the case of bilateral (or intra-RTA … of global safeguards, roughly a quarter of RTAs provide for the possible exclusion of the RTA partner, subject to certain …

members, and inspiring RTA negotiators. We explore, as a case study, how the WTO TBT Committee has shaped provisions on …