are much stronger than the general case covering all RTAs in the world. In addition, as we control the trade effect of a … country's trade facilitation, which is ranked by the World Bank's logistic performance index, RTAs consisting of trade …

, countervailing, and global safeguard measures (so-called ‘trade remedies’) should be of increased concern to the Members of the World … Trade Organization (‘WTO’). Long tolerated under the WTO agreements and perhaps a necessary evil to facilitate multilateral … trade liberalisation, elimination of trade remedies is far from the agenda of WTO negotiators. However, a small number of …

In the mid-1990s, the policy debate within the WTO focused on whether regional trade agreements (RTAs) were building … blocks or stumbling blocks for the WTO system, essentially questioning whether regionalism was appropriate at all from an … WTO system. Three major controversies within many existing RTAs are the exclusion of agriculture from coverage, complex …

The Doha Declaration on the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights …