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Actively ongoing discussions shaping the WTO reform are aimed at solving urgent and systemic issues impeding both the functioning and the progress of the Organization and ensuring the relevance of the multilateral trading system in future. While a number of procedural and substantive suggestions...
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Economics of the fishery has focused on the wastefulness of common pool resource exploitation. Pure open access fisheries dissipate economic rents and degrade biological stocks. Biologically managed fisheries also dissipate rents but are thought to hold biological stocks at desired levels. We...
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Free zones have become increasingly popular as trade promotion policy instruments in developing countries. This article explains how the obligations in the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures apply to free zones. An analysis of the most common requirements for companies...
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While the objectives of the World Trade Organization include promotion of economic development for developing countries … stabilizing world trade and inhibiting state interference with world trade, they also have significant implications for tariff and … subsidy-based economic development policies. This article lays out the problems with current WTO rules in these areas and …
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subsidize their producers if they offer the same subsidy to all producers in their economies. I show that through an agreement …
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Acting on complaints by Brazil, the World Trade Organization (WTO) adopted in Spring 2005 two dispute settlement … and caused world cotton prices to be "significantly suppressed," an actionable form of injury to Brazil's cotton exporters … programs tied to world prices have market insulating effects on farmers and a negative impact on world cotton prices. However …
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The WTO Agreement on Agriculture applies to those "agricultural products" as defined in its Annex 1. This definition expressly excludes "fish and fish products" from the scope of application of the Agreement. In light of this exclusion, the paper is intended to provide a historical account of...
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The members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been continuously involved in achieving a balanced outcome in …
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