Indicators - which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bali WTO Ministerial Conference of December …

data on tariffs and trade covering 130 countries. We show that regionalism has delivered limited effective liberalization … 2013. WTO commitments (1.0 p.p. average cut) and unilateral liberalizations on a most-favored-nation (MFN) basis (1.3 p …

featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) contribute to reducing trade costs. Inclusion of such provisions in RTAs …

For many years now, lack of progress in multilateral trade negotiations has been a major cause of concern among WTO … must be taken by consensus and the full membership must be involved at every stage. Decision making by consensus is a … account of the use of OPAs in the GATT 1947 era and of its revival under the WTO Agreement. It describes the various areas of …