The paper provides a summary of the country positions taken by the WTO members with regard to TRIMs and it covers a period of 1995 to 2003. In the Cancun Ministerial investment with two of other Singapore Issues were dropped, due to lack of consensus. In the recent year the TRIMs related issues...

Concerns over food safety have prompted the application of non-tariff standards such as sanitary and phytosanitary measures by countries throughout the world. These regulatory standards are formulated to protect humans, plants and animals from toxic contamination in imported food and...

Over the years, especially since 2012, have faced rejections of its consignments exported to developed countries in agricultural products. Keeping this in mind, the research question explored in this study is, do the SPS-based MRLs hinder the exports of India’s fruits? An analysis of five...

The paper explores e-commerce related reforms across production re-structuring, trade, FDI, and the regulatory policies needed to enable the South Asian firms to benefit from servicification of the goods trade. The increased automation and digitisation of production across many of the identified...

There is a growing debate on the electronic commerce modes of deliveries, the core issue of the two-year moratorium and the extension of similar treatment of all digitisable products. Looking for similarity to Doha Round sectoral proposals, wherein also tariff elimination was at the core of...

The Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), instituted in 1971 under the aegis of UNCTAD, has contributed over the years to creating an enabling trading environment by providing tariff reduction or complete elimination for developing countries and the LDCs. The study of GSP imports of the US...

The paper brings out the pattern of notification of TBT measures under the WTO. While, using the WTO grouping of countries does put the developing countries, who are usually adopting international standards, as the largest yearly notifier since 2004. The pattern takes a completely different turn...