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Mapping of dispute settlement mechanisms in regional trade agreements : innovative or variations on a theme?

Chase, Claude S. K.; Yanovich, Alan; Crawford, Jo-Ann; … - 2013 - Manuscript date: 10 June 2013

Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have become an indelible feature of the international trading landscape. Most, if not all, RTAs contain provisions that establish procedures for resolving disputes among their signatory members. Yet, the design and functioning of these dispute settlement...

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Preferential rules of origin in regional trade agreements

Donner Abreu, Maria - 2013 - Manuscript date: March 2013

This study surveys preferential rules of origin applied by 192 regional trade agreements (RTAs) covering trade in goods notified to the GATT/WTO up to 1 November 2010. It takes into account the preferential rules of origin that were notified to the WTO; whenever known and available,...

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Mapping of safeguard provisions in regional trade agreements

Crawford, Jo-Ann; McKeagg, Jo; Tolstova, Julia - 2013 - Manuscript date: October 14, 2013

This study surveys safeguard provisions on trade in goods in 232 regional trade agreements (RTAs) notified to the GATT/WTO up to 31 December 2012. In particular, it identifies those RTAs that modify the conditions applicable to the RTA partner (either substantively or procedurally) in the event...

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Trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements traits and trends

Neufeld, Nora - 2014 - Manuscript date: January 15, 2014

The paper first surveys the Trade Facilitation landscape at the regional level and analyses the main forces shaping it. It identifies key factors driving regional Facilitation approaches, examining their priorities, features and underlying philosophies. The study also highlights significant...

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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

on Transparency in Government Procurement; and (iv) the taking up of relevant issues in the context of bilateral or …

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Trade Remedy Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements

World Trade Organization - 2007

This paper maps and examines the provisions on anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards in seventy-four regional trade agreements (RTAs). The RTAs vary in size, degree of integration, geographic region and the level of economic development of their members. The key policy concern of...

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Quantitative evidence on transparency in regional trade agreements

Lejárraga, Iza; Shepherd, Ben - 2013

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

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Greening regional trade agreements on investment

Yamaguchi, Shunta - 2020

Many governments are increasingly recognising the need to ensure that trade and investment agreements reflect environmental concerns to help achieve overarching environmental goals and to increase their public acceptability. In particular, investment liberalisation and protection, as well as...

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Multilateralising regionalism : strengthening transparency disciplines in trade

Lejárraga, Iza - 2013

discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of … opacity. This study distils the most progressive practices for promoting regulatory transparency in over one hundred regional … deepen existing multilateral transparency commitments (“WTO-plus”), but expand them to new areas that do not have precedents …

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The value of market access and national treatment commitments in services trade agreements

Lamprecht, Philipp; Miroudot, Sébastien - 2018

This paper looks at market access and national treatment commitments for services in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and in 95 regional trade agreements (RTAs) involving the countries that are covered in the OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI). The objective is to...

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