The World Trade Organization (WTO) will stage its ninth Ministerial Conference (MC9) in Bali, Indonesia, on 3-6 December 2013. The meeting comes at a critical juncture for the multilateral trade body, long mired in the Doha Round stalemate. Beyond offering a critical first test at...

This Commentary briefly discusses the WTO dispute between the United States and Turkey over the latter's rice import regime. The ruling could have very important implications for the import regimes of other countries and could represent the opening salvo in a campaign to bring other WTO Members...

This Commentary briefly discusses the new bill introduced by Senators Baucus and Hatch to provide better monitoring and enforcement of intellectual property protection in countries whose IP regimes are deemed to be especially lax and damaging to US economic interests. The new bill is the latest...

The present paper shares some of the author's thoughts on WTO accession after several years of observing and analyzing the WTO as an institution, a set of agreements and a place where countries meet to battle it out with one another in pursuit of their own jealously protected national interests....

In several recent cases brought before the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, several WTO Members have been taken to task for supposedly failing to comply with their obligations on establishing that a causal link existed between imports and injury caused to a domestic industry while at the same time...

The bed linen dispute provided a welcome and long overdue opportunity to throw some light on, and perhaps reign in some of the more blatant and excessive abuses of the European Commission's anti-dumping practices, which over the years, have come under repeated attack by a broad range of legal...

This paper has been prepared for the Islamic Development Bank's Seminar on WTO Accession Issues for selected OIC Member Countries, taking place on 28 -29 March 2006, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It offers a detour from the well-trodden ground of WTO accession procedures and the challenges acceding...

This paper explores the massive strides that were made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by national drug regulatory agencies (NRAs) in order to achieve what ultimately became the fastest incidence in human history of the development, testing, approval, manufacture, and distribution of a new...

A number of legislative frameworks and policies exercise various constraints on access to the Internet for certain goods, services, and other content. Some of these are recognized by most, if not all market participants as legitimate (data protection laws, measures to combat fraud, as well as...