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Agriculture, Trade, and the WTO : Creating a Trading Environment for Development

Ingco, Merlinda D. - 2013

Developing countries have an enormous stake in the new round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations, taking … development? The authors argue that only by reshaping the world's trading system, and reducing the barriers to trade, can truly …

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Multilateral Trade Negotiations in the Gatt and the WTO : Lessons for Asia

Fung, K. C. - 2008

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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Saving Multilateralism in a Higgledy-Piggledy Trading System

Jovanovic, Miroslav N. - 2015

. The World Trade Organization (WTO) still has important assets: to convene/service meetings and to settle trade disputes …

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Characterising non-tariff trade policy

Gruebler, Julia; Reiter, Oliver - 2020

notifications to the World Trade Organization and complementary information provided by the Temporary Trade Barriers Database, we …

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Trade issues affecting disaster response

Roberts, Michael; Mohammed, Nazia - 2017 - Manuscript date: March 2017

The frequency, severity and economic impact of natural disasters are growing. Import surges resulting from disaster-response efforts can highlight underlying structural failings in the border clearance regimes of disaster-affected countries. Relief supplies, specialized personnel and agencies...

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Peeling away the layers : impacts of durable tariff elimination

Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Henn, Christian - 2018

We demonstrate that durable MFN tariff elimination affects trade patterns through several layers, and magnitudes of effects are sizable. The WTO Information Technology Agreement's (ITA) unique setting allows us to overcome the challenges associated with identifying effects of non-discriminatory...

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Is Trade Negotiation under the WTO a Victim of Half-Hearted Strategies and Inconsistencies

Murali, Kallummal - 2022

Since 1947 when the general agreement on tariff and Trade (GATT), a process initiated simple rules to govern the liberalisation of trade. The GATT from 1947 to 1994 has had eight rounds of negotiation, bringing mainly the commercial trade among the developed countries. More the five decades of...

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The Impact of the Uruguay Round on World Agriculture

Kim, Chung-Sil - 2017

This paper focuses on the impact of the Uruguay Round (UR) implementation on world agriculture using a multi … that the Uruguay Round has had a negative impact on world agriculture in the light of total food production and food … European Union (EU) and South Korea. As is clearly visible on the maps produced by the GIS function, the real state of world …

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Reforming the WTO through inclusive and development-friendly plurilaterals

Akman, Mehmet Sait; Aran, Bozkurt; Berger, Axel; Braga, … - In: Journal of world trade : law, economic policy, public policy 57 (2023) 6, pp. 875-888

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Trade facilitation measures under free trade agreements : are they discriminatory against non-members?

Yamanaka, Shintarō; Tafgar, Aiken; Lazaro, Dorothea - 2010

Are trade facilitation measures under free trade agreements (FTAs) discriminatory? This important question has yet to be sufficiently explored by the existing literature on trade facilitation. Despite the multilateral scope and non-discriminatory objectives of trade facilitation measures, some...

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