Publications (Filter: WTO)
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Russia in the WTO: Unriddling the Mystery of Russia’s Trade Policy
By: Fredrik ErixonAfter almost two decades of accession negotiations, Russia was invited in mid-December last year to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This was...
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The International Services Agreement (ISA) – From the European Vantage Point
Services liberalisation has perhaps suffered from the deadlock of the WTO more than any other area of trade. As the discussions of a potential...
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The Rising Trend of Green Protectionism: Biofuels and the European Union
By: Fredrik ErixonThis paper surveys and discusses the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) in the European Union and its compatibility with EU obligations in the World...
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FUTURE-PROOFING WORLD TRADE IN TECHNOLOGY: Turning the WTO IT Agreement (ITA) into the International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA)
Despite being an agreement designed for the fastest developing sectors, the signatories of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in the World...
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Digital Authoritarianism: Human Rights, Geopolitics and Commerce
Online censorship is about to take centre stage in the campaign to improve conditions for human rights, cyber security and commercial freedom of...
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Chinese Trade Policy After (Almost) Ten Years in the WTO: A Post-Crisis Stocktake
By: Razeen SallyChina’s trade policy has shifted in the near-decade since it joined the WTO, argues Razeen Sally in a new study. It behaves more like a very...
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Analyzing the Disputes on Subsidy and Countervailing Measures Implications for the Current WTO Negotiations
Presently the Doha Round negotiations for ensuring disciplines in the area of subsidies and countervailing measures are going on at the multilateral...
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A Future for the World Trade Organisation?
In ECIPE's Second Jan Tumlir Lecture, Peter Sutherland – the former Director General of the WTO who spearheaded the Uruguay Round of trade...
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Administered Protection in the GATT/WTO System
This paper examines how WTO member governments have used safeguards, antidumping, and other instruments of “administered” or “contingent”...
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The Special Safeguard Fiasco in the WTO: The Perils of Inadequate Analysis and Negotiation
Tags: WTOThe 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...