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trade policies. The WTO regularly examines its members' trade policies - but its reports tend to be superficial and …
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the blockage of access to websites. This paper suggests that many WTO member states are legally obliged to permit an … WTO. But the exceptions do not offer a blanket cover for the arbitrary and disproportionate censorship that still occurs …
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In light of Kazakhstan's interest to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), this paper investigates the impact of the … WTO accession on trade flows by using a standard gravity model. It argues that accession to the WTO involves a short run … market institutions, and gains from accession to the WTO will work best with complementary institutional reforms. …
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Agreement (ITA) in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have so far failed to re-negotiate the coverage of the ITA (concluded in … economies. The WTO framework is struggling to keep up with these new challenges but the lack of progress risks turning the ITA … of the WTO - an agreement that would be very costly for WTO members to stand outside and also make the complex rules of …
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The European Union has recently shifted to a trade policy that envisages a greater use of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). In particular the EU is working on a number of new FTA initiatives. Policy statements also reiterate the EU's commitment to multilateralism in trade and to the completion of...
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The TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) tends to be attributed to the regional and bilateral efforts of the United States. This paper suggests that such a perception is mistaken. The EU certainly seeks to...
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