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Regulatory Autonomy and Multilateral Disciplines : The Dilemma and a Possible Resolution

World Trade Organization - 1998

A major challenge for the multilateral trading system is to secure the benefits of trade liberalization without infringing on the freedom of governments to pursue legitimate domestic objectives. The difficulty lies in distinguishing between two types of situations. In one, a non-protectionist...

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Intellectual Property and Digital Trade Mapping International Regulatory Responses to Emerging Issues

World Trade Organization - 2021

This paper explores how regulatory responses to emerging IP issues in digital trade may develop at the international level and in particular how existing mechanisms might influence the chances of developing internationally agreed rules in this regard. The primacy of state sovereignty in...

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The Shifting Contours of Trade in Knowledge : The New 'Trade-Related Aspects' of Intellectual Property

World Trade Organization - 2020

This paper charts the evolution and diversification of trade in knowledge that has taken place in the quarter-century since the WTO TRIPS Agreement came into force. Entirely new markets have come into being, potentially redefining the very character of 'trade'.

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Illicit Trade and Infectious Diseases

World Trade Organization - 2020

We collect a novel dataset that covers about 130 countries and the six four-digit live animal categories in the Harmonized System (HS) over a sixteen-year period, to study the link between illicit trade in live animals and threat to animal health from infectious diseases.

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A Simple Trade Policy Perspective on Capital Controls

World Trade Organization - 1998

This note discusses capital controls using insights from the trade policy literature. It highlights some key issues that have been neglected in the current international debate on capital controls. Capital is tradable in the same way as many goods and services are. As a result, much of the...

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Multilateral Approaches to Market Access Negotiations

World Trade Organization - 1998

Market access negotiations in merchandise trade at the multilateral level cover tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs). While tariffs have been substantially reduced in earlier rounds, they remain high in certain areas and further reductions involve a number of complex technical issues. Some...

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Preferential and Non-Preferential Trade Flows in World Trade

World Trade Organization - 1998

This paper quantifies the extent of preferential trade as a share of total world trade in different regions of the … world and for two periods. Results show that: i) preferential trade represented 40% of world trade in the period 1988 … shares in Asia and Oceania (around 4 per cent) and average values in the rest-of-the-world (Eastern Europe and Africa); iv …

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Trade Costs in the Global Economy : Measurement, Aggregation and Decomposition

World Trade Organization - 2021

Proper measurement and aggregation of trade costs is of paramount importance for sound academic and policy analysis of the determinants - particularly those of policy - of economic outcomes. The international trade profession has witnessed signifcant new developments, both on the theoretical and...

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Trade in services : the most dynamic segment of international trade

World Trade Organization - 2015

Over the past 20 years, trade in services has become the most dynamic segment of world trade, growing more quickly than …, increasing their share in exports of world services from a quarter to one-third over this period. This brochure, produced to mark …

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Trade in Services : The Most Dynamic Segment of International Trade

World Trade Organization - 2015

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