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This paper analyses how the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) supports digital trade and cross-border data flows, while also giving governments the scope to restrict data flows to achieve legitimate regulatory objectives. The USMCA has made significant progress developing rules for...
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To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an effective framework for cooperation because it has …
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As tariff barriers have fallen worldwide, regulation of domestic policy has become increasingly important in international trade agreements. This has led to the emergence of a theoretical literature addressing the integration of perfectly observable domestic policy into trade agreements....
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The scope and depth of bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (RTAs) negotiated over the past 15 years has expanded beyond traditional market access and preferential tariffs to include provisions on a wide range of issues, including trade facilitation. This study is a first attempt...
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Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building...
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This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process from 2014 to 2018. Reports from the WTO Secretariat,...
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In the 15 years since the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established, the issue of institutional reform – whether … Member States. While calls for strengthening multilateralism and for WTO reform have been more acute at particular junctures …
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"Short Description The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting …-edge account of the World Trade Organization - what it does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and problems …"The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World …
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