A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in …

liberalize farm trade in the next WTO round follow the same pattern as the Uruguay Round, or might a more radical approach be … required to bring agriculture more into the WTO mainstream? The question is explored from the viewpoint of developing countries …

agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the contracting environment. We argue that taking contracting costs …

The larger trading nations have been the main users of the WTO Dispute Settlement system during its first four years of …

unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity. Apart from the fact that the procedure for triggering the … trade retaliation that WTO may permit under certain conditions. Both efficiency and equity concerns are raised. The Paper … concludes with some suggestions for reforming this part of WTO dispute resolution during the review of the Dispute Settlement …

Almost all WTO dispute panels exceed their statutory time limits. This is often seen to indicate a more general problem …

currently covered by the WTO Agreement, such as investment protection, competition policy, labour standards and environmental … contents of all PTAs involving the EC and the US currently notified to the WTO, into 14 "WTO+" and 38 "WTO-X" areas, where WTO …+ provisions come under the current mandate of the WTO, and WTO-X provisions deal with issues lying outside the current WTO mandate …