Abstract Decades of negotiation to extend the GATT/WTO system address subsidies have never produced sort uniform, scheduled rules that apply tariffs or even services. Instead, WTO members developed demarcate permissible and impermissible subsidies. In this paper, I argue approach is now hampered by shifts in share global trade away from geopolitically aligned, wealthy states growth supply chain...

It has been widely recognized in both the US and EU that in order to construct agricultural policy packages that are both politically sustainable and in compliance with the requirements of the World Trade Organization (WTO), it is necessary to incorporate environmental provisions into these packages. The goal of this proposal is to investigate and compare the trend toward melding agricultural a...

Journal of Futures Studies, May 2007, 11(4): 97 104 How do we conceive of the world system? For a long time, say 1950-2000, there were two clear answers based on real world divisions coinciding with the compass: the West-East, and the North-South discourses; the former based on ideology and military alliances and the latter on economic development. NATO versus WTO, the North Atlantic Treaty Org...

This paper evaluates the impact of some key labor market reforms on rural-urban inequality and income distribution, using a household-disaggregated, recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of China. We also explore how these factor market reforms interact with product market reforms currently underway as part of China's WTO accession process. The simulation results show tha...

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on services have proliferated since 2000. This working paper briefly presents the expansion of the dataset initially developed in Marchetti and Roy (2008). The data permits to assess the extent to which market access commitments undertaken by WTO Members in PTAs go beyond GATS commitments and offers made in the context of the Doha Development Agenda. The dat...

The Uruguay Round Agreements and the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995 resulted in a major step forward by bringing the agriculture and services sectors under the disciplines of GATT, bringing down the levels of tariffs and putting in place a dispute settlement mechanism. In order to realise the potential gains from trade, developing countries made substantial progress...

This study examines ICT’s impact in meeting the challenges, Chinese tobacco companies are facing in the context of an open door policy as well as the WTO entry. The analysis is based on an in-depth study of the ICT evolution in Chinese tobacco companies. For our conclusion we use Nolan’s stage hypothesis and the strategic grid model. We show that, depending on a company’s strategic grid cell, d...

ABSTRACT By prohibiting subsidies that support illegal, unregulated, or unreported fishing activities and contribute to the unsustainable depletion of marine resources, 2022 Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies (AFS) is first World Trade Organization (WTO) treaty recognize a specific trade policy instrument can have adverse consequences for global commons. We assess AFS as such through lens broader...