economies in the world had national competition legislation, currently, about 135 WTO Members have such laws. These include all … competition policy are incorporated in the WTO General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); the General Agreement on Trade in …-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs Agreement); and other WTO instruments. Effective national competition policies are also essential to …

With the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, the pyramidal design of the international trading … economic policies of WTO Member States at the bottom of the pyramid. This article questions whether this vertical structure is … that the WTO is losing its centrality in the international trading system. The thesis of this article is that the …

The World Trade Organization's (WTO) Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) is charged with monitoring … integration agreements and ask whether oversight and examination by the WTO has fostered successful RTAs. The data reveal that … published by the WTO. Using variation in the notification status of an RTA we are able to determine whether oversight of …

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General …:2); (ii) "multilateralization" of the GPA; (iii) the eactivation of work in the (currently inactive) WTO Working Group …