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The Special Safeguard Fiasco in the WTO: The Perils of Inadequate Analysis and Negotiation
The July 2008 attempt by a group of ministers to agree on modalities for the WTO’s Doha Round broke down in part because they could not agree on a...
Green Protectionism in the European Union: How Europe’s Biofuels Policy and the Renewable Energy Directive Violate WTO Commitments
What happened to the professed environmental goal to substitute fossil fuels wit biofuels, asks Fredrik Erixon in a new study of EU biofuels policy....
The WTO’s Trade Policy Review Mechanism: How to Create Political Will for Liberalization
The economic crisis has sparked fears about emerging protectionism and created wide interest in initiatives to monitor trade policies. The WTO...
Does the Trading System have a Future?
There is a great deal of ruin in the trading system. Yet, in many respects it has been a huge success. The opening of the world economy of the...
The Doha Round: “Death-Defying Agenda” or “Don’t Do it Again”?
Almost eight years after the launch of the WTO's Doha Round, negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with many participants unwilling or...
How to Revive Doha with Some Chance of Success
This Policy Brief concerns the troubled state of the Doha Round. The classical model for a multilateral trade negotiation (as developed from the GATT...
Origins of the Financial Crisis and Requirements for Reform
This paper examines the causes of the global financial crisis (focusing in particular on why residential mortgage-backed securities and credit...
Transparency of Complex Regulation: How Should WTO Trade Policy Reviews Deal with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Policies?
Protectionism flourishes in the shadow and withers in the sunlight. That is the idea behind the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) that...