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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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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...
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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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Human Rights and Multilateral Trade : A Pragmatic Approach to Understanding the Linkages
Kanade, Mihir - 2013
or so. The emergence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 as the nodal agency for multilateral trade in goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157417
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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,...
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China and the World Trading System
Subramanian, Arvind - 2011
Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an effective framework for cooperation because it has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117791
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Domestic Policies, Hidden Protection and the GATT/WTO
Bajona, Claustre - 2012
As tariff barriers have fallen worldwide, regulation of domestic policy has become increasingly important in international trade agreements. This has led to the emergence of a theoretical literature addressing the integration of perfectly observable domestic policy into trade agreements....
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Do trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements matter? : impact on trade costs and multilateral spillovers
Duval, Yann; Neufeld, Nora; Utoktham, Chorthip - 2016
The scope and depth of bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (RTAs) negotiated over the past 15 years has expanded beyond traditional market access and preferential tariffs to include provisions on a wide range of issues, including trade facilitation. This study is a first attempt...
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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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Trade policies supporting women's economic empowerment : trends in WTO members
Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019
This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process from 2014 to 2018. Reports from the WTO Secretariat,...
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