Almost eight years after the launch of the Doha Round, the WTO negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with … could be achieved; whether there are alternative approaches to WTO negotiations that could be explored for the future; and … what a future negotiating agenda might look like. It concludes with some reflections on the prospects for the WTO at the …

develop a realistic base1ine that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the enlargement of the …

This paper looks at the possibilities of a concluding "Bali package" on the issues that are currently engaging the WTO …

There are essentially two types of plurilateral trade agreements (PAs) among WTO Members, an exclusive and an open … discussions. This article takes a sceptical view, since any such PA would need to be agreed by consensus among all 160-odd WTO … treaty frameworks, as "WTO-extra" understandings. …

Suppose that when addressing the question of "what’s left for the WTO?," negotiators relied not on the agenda … agreement like the WTO to facilitate. These three areas include applied tariffs for countries that are not members of the WTO …, applied tariffs for WTO members that are unbound, and applied tariffs for WTO members set in the presence of large amounts of …

Plurilateral agreements in the WTO context allow sub-sets of countries to agree to commitments in specific policy areas … that only apply to signatories, and thus allow for 'variable geometry' in the WTO. Plurilateral agreements share a number … distinguishes them from the general, nondiscriminatory agreements that are negotiated among—and apply to—all WTO Members. Current …

This chapter studies interlinkages and interaction between the reciprocal trade liberalization through the WTO and … dataset is done to determine the impact of WTO and PTA membership on the developed and developing countries, as well as LDCs …

The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political … arguably requires greater recognition of the value of trade policy disciplines that will be part of any agreement. The WTO is … leveraging existing WTO bodies to enhance the transparency of nontariff measures, address regulatory concerns that impede …

. Agreement on this paragraph should represent one immediate contribution that the WTO can make to fight against climate change … WTO environmental goods negotiations. It begins with discussing what products to liberalize and how. Given that WTO … in environmental goods and technologies forward, both within and outside the WTO. Recognizing that there is no one …