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A WTO Reform Agenda : Data Flows and International Regulatory Cooperation
Meltzer, Joshua P - 2020
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in need of reform, including new rules. While there is not yet a comprehensive … reform agenda for the WTO, developing e-commerce rules should be seen as part of WTO reform in two respects. First, the …-commerce would contribute to broader WTO reform. This paper proposes, among other things, that the WTO become a platform that can …
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Regulatory Cooperation to Remove Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade in Products : Key Challenges and Opportunities for the Canada-EU Comprehensive Trade Agreement (CETA)
Krstic, Stanko - 2012
Canada by disciplining provincial regulation that result in NTBs. This paper argues that while a sui generis case, in order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171616
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Institutions for Regulatory Cooperation in 'New Generation' Economic and Trade Agreements
Steger, Debra P. - 2013
). However, recent experience with PTAs has shown that it is possible to progress beyond entirely separate regulation in specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092258
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Women's economic empowerment : an inherent part of Aid for Trade
Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019
Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building...
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430680
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International Trade and Investment : Towards a Common Regime?
Steger, Debra P. - 2013
While to an economist, business person or policy maker, movement of goods, services and foreign direct investment should logically be covered in the same agreement, history has not allowed this to happen. International legal regimes are spinning into greater fragmentation as the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084312
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The World Trade Organization : A New Constitution for the Trading System
Steger, Debra P. - 2013
The establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 was a historic achievement. It provided a means for … established, for the first time in history, an international organization for world trade. Written by one of the negotiators of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092232
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Amicus Curiae : Participant or Friend? The WTO and NAFTA Experience
Steger, Debra P. - 2014
How did the phenomenon of amici curiae submissions arise in WTO and NAFTA dispute settlement? The rules did not expressly contemplate submissions by non-state actors or participation by them, but the Appellate Body and panels developed case-by-case authority for admitting them. Amici curiae...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176186
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The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement : Developing Trade Policy for Digital Trade
Meltzer, Joshua P - 2020
This paper analyses how the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) supports digital trade and cross-border data flows, while also giving governments the scope to restrict data flows to achieve legitimate regulatory objectives. The USMCA has made significant progress developing rules for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834781
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The contribution of mutual recognition to international regulatory co-operation
Brito, Anabela Correia de; Kauffmann, Céline; … - 2016
This study takes stock of the institutional setting, operational modalities, strengths and weaknesses of various forms of mutual recognition when used in different sector and country contexts. It aims to build a greater understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of one of the 11 mechanisms of...
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