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important policy implications regarding reflections on the way LDCs could utilize their policy flexibilities in the WTO …
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the Doha Round negotiations. These requests prompted the WTO to collaborate with donors and development agencies but no … that, while the WTO Secretariat had to collaborate with other institutions, it is not institutionally in a position to … influence aid allocation. Aid for trade is delivered on donor’s terms in the same way than any other form of aid and the WTO …
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This paper aims to help Asian trade negotiators by examining the processes and results of the Uruguay Round. Analysts argue that trade negotiations are based on mercantilistic rules. But the actual outcome of the Uruguay Round suggests that trade bargaining was not based on strict reciprocity....
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. The World Trade Organization (WTO) still has important assets: to convene/service meetings and to settle trade disputes …. If the WTO transforms its role from trade liberalisation forum into an institution which supervises and administers …
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effects are sizable. The WTO Information Technology Agreement's (ITA) unique setting allows us to overcome the challenges … elimination, through WTO bindings, adds a further two layers, boosting both imports and exports more than equivalent unilateral …
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Competition policy, today, is an essential element of the legal and institutional framework for the global economy. Whereas decades ago, anti-competitive practices tended to be viewed mainly as a domestic phenomenon, most facets of competition law enforcement now have an important international...
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SPS Agreement of WTO and what have the countries been introducing as measures that may depart from a harmonised measure … under the Codex. The gap in the WTO transparency provisions has allowed members notify under ‘regular’ or ‘emergency’ SPS …) or multilaterally at the WTO, is a reflection of how good, update and useful is the information flow between the actors …
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According to the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA), all agricultural non-tariff trade barriers should be converted into equivalent tariffs and further, reduced over time. However each member country has the authority to choose the tariff types when it converts NTBs to tariffs such as...
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This paper analyses the economic effects of different magnitudes of tariff cuts, different tariff cutting formulas, the implications of tariff capping as well as different numbers and width of tariff bands in the market access pillar of the Doha Round agricultural negotiations. The simulations...
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