Publications (Filter: WTO)
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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...
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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...
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The Doha Round: “Death-Defying Agenda” or “Don’t Do it Again”?
By: Stuart HarbinsonAlmost eight years after the launch of the WTO's Doha Round, negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with many participants unwilling or...
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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...
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Sprinting During a Marathon: Why the WTO Ministerial Failed in July 2008
The WTO’s nine day sprint in July 2008 was an attempt to break the logjam on “modalities” for agriculture and NAMA in the marathon Doha Round...
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A Blueprint for Reform of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture
As the Doha negotiations are at a dead end, Valentin Zahrnt addresses some fundamental questions about the future direction of WTO disciplines in...
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From Twin Towers to Fawlty Towers – a Story of the Doha Round (mimeo)
By: Fredrik ErixonThe Doha Round has yet again collapsed. The July 2008 attempt to negotiate a broad headline deal between the main member countries of the WTO failed....
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Trade in Information Technology Goods: Adapting the ITA to 21st Century Technological Change
In this new ECIPE Working Paper, Iana Dreyer and Brian Hindley analyse the ITA’s structure and development. The ITA has been a great success, but...
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Russian Commercial Policies and the European Union – Can Russia be Anchored in a Legal International Economic Order?
Can Russia be brought to abide by international commercial rules? In ECIPE’s new Working Paper, Iana Dreyer and Brian Hindley discuss the isolation...
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