) 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 …

discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of … deepen existing multilateral transparency commitments (“WTO-plus”), but expand them to new areas that do not have precedents … in WTO agreements (“WTO-beyond”). In particular, the paper illuminates a number of options that may be useful for policy …

restrictions. The WTO provides a general prohibition on quantitative export restrictions but the broad and, at times, ambiguous … exceptions somewhat vitiate the ban. Moreover, export taxes are not explicitly forbidden in the WTO. This study suggests that … there are a number of ways by which WTO disciplines could benefit from the approaches found in some RTAs in the area of …

OECD work on RTAs by examining regional provisions that deepen (WTO-plus) and expand (WTO-beyond) multilateral commitments … across a broad range of policy areas. It finds that WTO-plus measures are becoming more widespread and similar over time … set of attributes that may be able to render WTO-plus provisions more amenable to multilateralisation, either through a …

manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO …

The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political … arguably requires greater recognition of the value of trade policy disciplines that will be part of any agreement. The WTO is … leveraging existing WTO bodies to enhance the transparency of nontariff measures, address regulatory concerns that impede …