Bartels, Lorand; Silva, Sacha; Hijazi, Hadil; … - 2013
to date, and hold valuable lessons for the ongoing review of WTO rules on development aspects of regional trade … agreements. These negotiations, which have proceeded on the basis of existing WTO rules, serve neither trade nor development … objectives. The central reason for this is that existing WTO rules – principally Article XXIV GATT – have a ‘tariff bias’ in …