The "World Trade Organization (WTO)" is an organization that Pakistan a part of, the primary goal of which to improve international trade in long-term, sustainable way. What's more, stands behind “Berne Convention for Protection Literary and Artistic Work 1886” addition “Universal Copyright 1952” “The agreement on Trade-Related Aspects Intellectual Property Rights, 1995 (TRIPs)”. On 1st January...

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Prices in the hog industry in Taiwan are determined according to an auction system. There are significant differences in hog prices before, during and after joining the World Trade Organization (WTO). The paper models growth rates and volatility in daily hog prices in Taiwan from 23 March 1999 to 30 June 2007, which enables an analysis of the effects of joining the WTO. The empirical results ha...

This article has examined the effect of duration membership in World Trade Organization (WTO) on submission trademarks by countries’ residents. The analysis used an unbalanced sample 124 countries (including developed and developing countries) and, primarily, binominal regression approach supplemented generalized method moments estimator, which was utilized for robustness check. Results have sh...

For a long time, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been seen as privileged multilateral regime to regulate trade. However, given its slow progress in negotiating new trade rules, countries have increasingly shifted their focus preferential agreements (PTAs) since early 2000s. Focusing on timely and important topic (digital trade), we explore how countries’ interactions WTO impact approache...

Despite numerous trade disputes within the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding overestimation of support level for agriculture by individual countries world, subsidizing farmers their own governments not only does decrease, but also tends to increase in general. In conditions WTO member open markets, world food security, including Russia, largely depends on competitiveness agriculture, agr...

* The views expressed in this paper are personal and should not be attributed to any of the institutions with which the authors are affiliated. Summary This paper discusses options that could be considered in the WTO to provide more favorable—so-called special and differential treatment (SDT)—to small and low-income countries. We argue that SDT should be limited to countries that most need it a...

Increased market access from Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) promised by policy makers is often diluted by preferential rules of origin (ROO). This paper discusses two policy options -one direct, and one indirect -with regard to limiting the impact of NAFTA ROO on trade, and illustrates the impact on GDP and welfare of these options using a computable general equilibrium methodology. The first (di...