Disciplining domestic support to agriculture remains an unfinished agenda in the WTO negotiations due to the different …

framework of the World Trade Organization, which currently does not allow environmental challenges to be tackled effectively. …

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General …:2); (ii) "multilateralization" of the GPA; (iii) the reactivation of work in the (currently inactive) WTO Working Group …

This paper looks at the possibilities of a concluding "Bali package" on the issues that are currently engaging the WTO …

There are essentially two types of plurilateral trade agreements (PAs) among WTO Members, an exclusive and an open … discussions. This article takes a sceptical view, since any such PA would need to be agreed by consensus among all 160-odd WTO … treaty frameworks, as "WTO-extra" understandings. …

At the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) held in Bali on 3–6 December 2013, the … ministers agreed upon the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (ATF). This paper assesses the level of ambition of the ATF from …

for Trade Initiative and its capacity to support the post-Bali WTO Agenda will depend on its capacity to address these … concerns. To do so, a change in approach is needed. In its Aid for Trade Work Programme 2012-13, the WTO answered the …

provisions under the World Trade Organization (WTO) which in turn resulted in a tremendous impact on the ambitious Agreement on … facilitation was exclusively to serve the needs of the developed world, where the latter could, as a result of these measures gain … a better access to the markets of the developing world. However, trade facilitation in emerging economies could witness …

date. Indeed, sustainable development is recognized as an objective in the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade … Organization (WTO). With the aim of stimulating discussion, this paper asks the question of how trade, and WTO rules, can … contribute to the post-2015 development agenda? In reply, the author offers some thoughts on 10 contributions that trade, and WTO …

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