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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform in the WTO : Options for Constraining Dual Pricing in the Multilateral Trading System

Marhold, Anna-Alexandra - 2018

context of fossil fuel subsidy reform. In view of climate change mitigation, the World Trade Organization (WTO) should …

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Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Trade Obligations : A Theoretical Analysis of the Doha Proposal

Naghavi, Alireza - 2014

The Doha declaration on trade and environment proposed to clarify the relationship between multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) trade obligations and WTO rules by only guaranteeing economic integration upon ratification of certain MEAs. In other words, it pushed to authorize the use of...

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Trade policy substitution : theory and evidence from Specific Trade Concerns

Beverelli, Cosimo; Boffa, Mauro; Keck, Alexander - 2014 - Manuscript date: 29 October 2014

We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member in a given sector is affected by past reductions in applied tariffs. Employing an identification strategy based on 'new measures', we find evidence of a substitution of...

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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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The layers of the IT Agreement's trade impact

Henn, Christian; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik - 2015 - Manuscript date: February 2015

The WTO's plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper presents a comprehensive study of its trade impacts by incorporating recent insights from both the global value chain (GVC) and time in trade literatures. Inserting tariffs...

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Trade Policy Review and Dispute Settlement at the WTO

Froese, Marc D. - 2014

trade that are flagged by the World Trade Organization's TPRM and subsequent challenges brought to the Dispute Settlement …

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Trade Policy, New Century : The WTO, FTAs and Asia Rising

Sally, Razeen - 2008

In recent years, debates on international trade policy have focused on the role of the World Trade Organization and the … drive trade liberalisation. Also, the world's fastest growing economies are those Asian economies that have embraced free … respond by removing their own protectionism. Unilateral action, not trade negotiations, is the key: the world cannot wait for …

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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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The value of the Committee on Agriculture : mapping Q&As to trade flows

Jackson, Lee Ann; Maggi, Federica; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2020

What is the value of the WTO Committee on Agriculture? How much trade do countries talk about at the WTO? Do low-income countries participate less than they should in the work of the Committee? How important are issues not covered by notifications? What are the most important issues on which to...

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