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

: 1) the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); 2) the … indicate that OECD membership (but neither GATT/WTO nor IMF membership) has had a consistently large positive effect on trade. …

The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no …

under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … the WTO. The case marked the first WTO dispute in which a challenged safeguard was upheld by the Appellate Body; the first … reviews the WTO Appellate Body’s findings and discusses a number of the legal and policy implications regarding China …

This study documents some unintended consequences of the WTO membership by providing evidence on displacement of tariff … evasion driven by the WTO accession process. We argue that implementation of Article VII of the GATT resulted in limiting … discretion of customs officials in terms of assessing unit values of goods. While prior to the WTO accession, officials were free …

of the Doha Round interact with domestic political factors in leading WTO members, the fast growth of exports prior to …. Recent emphasis on differences between developing countries and on Chinese WTO accession as independent causes of the impasse …

manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO …

Plurilateral agreements in the WTO context allow sub-sets of countries to agree to commitments in specific policy areas … that only apply to signatories, and thus allow for ‘variable geometry’ in the WTO. Current WTO rules make it much more … difficult to pursue the plurilateral route than to negotiate a preferential trade agreement outside the WTO. We argue that this …