and its Member States attempt to ensure that EU-based businesses are not undercut by emerging competition, drawing on …

Organization (WTO) and from the topics established therein which the WTO has not regulated so far. …

The larger trading nations have been the main users of the WTO Dispute Settlement system during its first four years of …

unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity. Apart from the fact that the procedure for triggering the … trade retaliation that WTO may permit under certain conditions. Both efficiency and equity concerns are raised. The Paper … concludes with some suggestions for reforming this part of WTO dispute resolution during the review of the Dispute Settlement …

agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the contracting environment. We argue that taking contracting costs …

, WTO Members and adjudicating bodies managed to develop the system further through evolving practice. While this approach … decisionmaking in the WTO (as incorporated in the DSU) and nearly blocked political decisionmaking evolves into a serious challenge … WTO-Abkommens in Kraft. In den ersten zehn Jahren seines Bestehens fand das DSU auf 324 Klagebegehren Anwendung – mehr …

A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in …

"trade wars" and crucially impair the credibility of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism. In this paper, we suggest that … such conclusions are unwarranted. Violation of WTO agreements and non-compliance with Dispute Settlement Body rulings …

(WTO) is an incomplete contract among sovereign states. Incomplete contracts contain gaps. Ex post, contractual gaps may … backtracking behavior. This paper examines the somewhat understudied issue of optimal trade policy flexibility design in the WTO … “liability rule” of escape), or a bilateral renegotiation provision (a “property rule” of escape). Modeling the WTO as a fully …

countries, which are known as North-South RTAs. Under the current legal system of the WTO, North-South RTAs are governed by … incorporated into the GATT/WTO legal framework so as to permit the derogation of most-favored-nation (MFN) obligations. …