overlap with obligations assumed by WTO Members under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). About 60 per cent of … potential counterparts under the GATS. At the same time, since most WTO Members have not listed relevant exemptions from the … provisions, this article discusses options on how WTO Members could proceed. …

design and functioning of these dispute settlement mechanisms (DSMs) and, more specifically, how they differ from the WTO … of jurisdictional conflict between DSMs of RTAs and the WTO dispute settlement system. Literature mapping out and … jurisdictional conflict between the multilateral and regional regimes. We map out the DSMs in RTAs that have been notified to the WTO …

not HS member states in 2017. Three non-members are advanced economies (all three are WTO members): Hong Kong, Macao and … publications for the signature and ratification of the Harmonised System Convention and by help of WTO publications on their …

This paper illustrates how the work of the WTO's standing committees is fuelling regulatory cooperation between WTO … members, and inspiring RTA negotiators. We explore, as a case study, how the WTO TBT Committee has shaped provisions on … international standards in RTAs, and focus on the extent to which RTAs have assimilated the WTO TBT principles for development of …

well as relating these rules to those provided for by the World Trade Organization (WTO). …