WTO accessions
Chine - Contingents tarifaires visant certains produits agricoles
Apr 2019
Dispute Reports
Le 18 avril 2019, l’OMC a distribué le rapport du Groupe spécial dans l’affaire introduite par les Etats-Unis “Chine - Contingents tarifaires visant certains produits agricoles “ (DS517).
China - Tariff Rate Quotas for Certain Agricultural Products
Apr 2019
Dispute Reports
On 18 April 2019 the WTO circulated the panel report in the case brought by the United States in “China - Tariff Rate Quotas for Certain Agricultural Products” (DS517).
China - Contingentes arancelarios aplicables a determinados productos agropecuarios
Apr 2019
Dispute Reports
El 18 de abril de 2019 la OMC distribuyó el informe del Grupo Especial encargado de examinar el asunto planteado por los Estados Unidos en la diferencia “China - Contingentes arancelarios aplicables a determinados productos agropecuarios” (DS517).
Russie - Mesures concernant le trafic en transit
Apr 2019
Dispute Reports
Le 5 avril 2019, l’OMC a distribué le rapport du Groupe spécial chargé d’examiner l’affaire introduite par l’Ukraine “Russie - Mesures concernant le trafic en transit” (DS512).
Russia - Measures Concerning Traffic in Transit
Apr 2019
Dispute Reports
On 5 April 2019 the WTO circulated the panel report in the case brought by Ukraine in “Russia - Measures Concerning Traffic in Transit” (DS512).
Rusia - Medidas que afectan al tráfico en tránsito
Apr 2019
Dispute Reports
El 5 de abril de 2019 la OMC hizo público el informe del Grupo Especial que se ocupó del asunto planteado por Ucrania “ Rusia — medidas que afectan al tráfico en tránsito” (DS512).
Tariff Negotiations and Renegotiations under the GATT and the WTO
Procedures and Practices, 2nd Edition
Dec 2018
Book
Over the past seven decades, since the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was established in 1947, there has been a phenomenal increase in international trade in goods, largely due to sustained efforts by the world’s main trading nations to reduce and eliminate tariff barriers in a multilaterally orchestrated manner. This publication reviews how the procedures and practices relating to tariff negotiations and renegotiations have evolved ov Read More
Georgia's Post-Accession Structural Reform Challenges
Jun 2017
Working Paper
The process leading to WTO accession is complex, requires solid domestic coordination mechanisms in the acceding country, a rethinking of its economic and trade policies and significant domestic structural reforms. It often implies the creation of new institutions designed to coordinate and implement the policies at the national level, as was the case in Georgia.
An Empirical Assessment of the Economic Effects of WTO Accession and its Commitments
Feb 2017
Working Paper
Besides facilitating access to the world market, WTO accession negotiations entail a process of domestic reforms that are expected to improve the supply side of acceding economies. However, measuring the actual impact of accession remains an empirical debate.
The WTO- Plus Obligations: Dual Class or a Strengthened System?
Jan 2017
Chapter
Obligations in accession protocols that go beyond the multilateral trade agreements are commonly referred to as ‘WTO-plus’ obligations. This chapter reviews the so-called WTO-plus obligations and argues that even though they are perceived to expand the existing obligations under multilateral trade agreements, they in fact do not create two classes of membership within the World Trade Organization (WTO). First, all accession processes are c Read More
How Post- TRIPS Negotiations Reframe the ‘Trade- Related Aspects’ of Intellectual Property after TRIPS: The Lessons of WTO Accessions
Jan 2017
Chapter
The WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) established the first multilateral understanding of what constitutes a standard for ‘adequate’ and ‘effective’ protection of intellectual property rights, and established a new mechanism for monitoring and reviewing how these standards are met. The policy and legal framework defined by the TRIPS Agreement has, in the two decades since it entered into force, progressi Read More
Trade Multilateralism – Enhancing Flexibility, Preserving the Momentum
Jan 2017
Chapter
The book you are about to close picked up on the evolving discussion on accessions and trade multilateralism. The first book on the subject, WTO Accessions and Trade Multilateralism: Case Studies and Lessons from the WTO at Twenty, looked back. It took stock of two decades of accessions to the WTO, their welfare and development outcomes, the resulting improvements to market access, and their contribution to domestic reforms and to the rules-ba Read More
WTO Rules, Accession Protocols and Mega-Regionals: Complementarity and Governance in the Rules-Based Global Economy
Jan 2017
Chapter
Over the past twenty years, the rules-based global economy has been subject to a dynamic process of transformation. The trading environment has been characterized by shifts in the balance of economic power, emerging structures and rapid changes in global and regional alliances. Since its establishment in 1995, the WTO has sought to adapt to these global trends. The 2017 Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), the 2015 Nairobi Decisions on Agriculture Read More
Post-Accession Support Platform
Jan 2017
Chapter
WTO obligations, including notification requirements, and specific accession commitments are complex. Most of them become effective from the date of WTO membership. From a centralized accession process, new members now suddenly have to adapt to a decentralized WTO procedures and participate in parallel in its multiple bodies. The twenty years of post-accession experience of Article XII members suggests that many, especially least-develope Read More
Trade Multilateralism in the Twenty-First Century
Jan 2017
Chapter
Trade multilateralism in the twenty-first century faces a serious test as weakness in the global economy and fast-paced technological changes create a challenging environment for world trade. This book examines how an updated and robust rules-based multilateral framework, anchored in the WTO, remains indispensable to maximizing the benefits of global economic integration and to reviving world trade. By examining recent accessions to the WTO, i Read More
The WTO and the Changing State of the Global Economy
Jan 2017
Chapter
The world economy is showing signs of recovery after several years of lacklustre performance, although major policy uncertainties may easily upset this fragile trend. To jumpstart economies and trade after the financial crisis of 2008–9, governments across the world employed a traditional mix of fiscal, monetary and structural policies. These efforts helped to prevent a deeper crisis but fell short of pulling the world out of a period of stagnation in Read More
Transforming Accessions Data into Knowledge
Jan 2017
Chapter
Accessions to the World Trade Organization (WTO) generate large amounts of data accumulated during accession negotiations and subsequent domestic reforms. Owing to differences in the structure of acceding economies, accession commitments vary across recently acceded, or Article XII, members, in the number of tariff lines bound, the level of bindings and the various accession-specific commitments and obligations. The depth of commitments an Read More
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