successful procedures and methodologies used by WTO Members and the WTO Secretariat to deal with the recent HS2002 transposition … pose considerable challenges for the WTO and its Members. On the one hand, Members need to periodically update their … the definition and thus also the implementation of some WTO agreements where the product coverage is defined in terms of …

successful procedures and methodologies used by WTO Members and the WTO Secretariat to deal with the recent HS2002 transposition … transpose their product lists into a new HS nomenclature. -- WTO ; schedule of concessions ; Harmonized System ; transposition … pose considerable challenges for the WTO and its Members. On the one hand, Members need to periodically update their …

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 …

2013. WTO commitments (1.0 p.p. average cut) and unilateral liberalizations on a most-favored-nation (MFN) basis (1.3 p …

equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small …

) enhance the export competitiveness of this sector (b) be WTO compliant and (c) ensure greater market access for Indian apparel …

and deeper paperless trade provisions than those featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. A more detailed …

The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that … commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This article discusses how the WTO contributes to facilitating Africa …'s integration into the WTO multilateral trading system. It is argued that, while African countries are actively engaged in the work …

ambitious expectations. For example, on average across all WTO Members, only one-third of all services sectors have been …

Organization (WTO), in order to evaluate the impacts that these may have on the multilateral trading system. Russia was the last … main economy outside the WTO. In order to allow its accession to the organization, WTO members demanded a series of … commitments and comparing them with China's accession to the WTO, in 2001, the article shall identify the main features of Russian …