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Market Access under the GATS – A Legal Commentary on Article XVI GATS

Daza Jaller, Lillyana Sophia; Delimatsis, Panagiotis; … - 2022

Market access is the most important liberalizing principle in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). It entails a general prohibition of quantitative restrictions, which however is conditional on commitments undertaken by Members in their respective Schedules of Commitments. Case-law...

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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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Formation of climate coalitions and preferential free trade : the case for participation linkage

Kuhn, Thomas; Pestow, Radomir; Zenker, Anja - 2022

We study the endogenous formation of climate coalitions linked to a preferential free trade arrangement. In a multi-stage strategic trade and participation game, coalition and fringe countries dispose of a discriminatory tariff on dirty imports as well as emission permits imposed on domestic...

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Competitive Liberalization : Preferential Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System

Andriamananjara, Soamiely - 2004

This article discusses whether the current proliferation of preferential trade agreements - the so-called competitive liberalization - encourages evolution toward multilateral free trade. It argues that countries pursuing preferential trade initiatives are in pursuit of the economic rents...

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Tariff Liberalization and the Growth of World Trade : A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Multilateral Trading System

Nenci, Silvia - 2012

The aims of this study are to assess the relationship between tariff barriers and world trade growth from a comparative … multilateral trading system for promoting world trade. The novelty of this work is the complex reconstruction of a historical … tariffs and trade series for the period 1870–2000, for 23 countries; this constitutes a good proxy for world trade (accounting …

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US-China Trade Relations -- Litigation in the WTO 2001-2014

Malawer, Stuart - 2016

The WTO dispute resolution system is widely used and is a litigation-oriented process. It is at the core of global trade relations today. Both the United States and China have been aggressive users of it. Each country has shown a willingness to address contentious issues. This has been to the...

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Establishing India's National Trade Facilitation Committee : a proposal

Taneja, Nisha; Prakash, Shravani; Bimal, Samridhi - 2016

Trade and transport facilitation are vital for increasing countries' international trade and it is important to ensure that the measures implemented to facilitate trade are effective. One of the crucial factors behind the successful implementation of trade and transport facilitation is ensuring...

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Trade Patterns and Trade Clusters : China, India, Brazil and South Africa in the Global Trading System

Montalbano, Pierluigi - 2014

questions by presenting: i) a world map of trade clusters involving WTO countries and CIBS; ii) a comparison of the above …

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Sustainable development impact of trade and investment liberalization in Asia and the Pacific

Narayanan, Badri; Duval, Yann; Kravchenko, Alexey; … - 2017

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...

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Marginal Consumers, Marginalized Economics : Whose Tastes and Habits Should the WTO Panels and Appellate Body Consider When Assessing ‘Likeness’?

Iacovides, Marios - 2020

In Philippines - Distilled Spirits, the Appellate Body of the WTO reaffirmed that the determination of 'likeness' in the GATT should be about the competitive relationship between products. A coherent methodology for the determination of 'likeness' has finally begun to emerge, with the same...

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