Abstract Global trade governance is increasingly characterized by a growing fragility in multilateral institutions and preference for bilateral negotiations. The literature on such negotiations focuses primarily successful agreements. Academic research unsuccessful or stalled talks limited, although better understanding of outcomes may provide lessons future This article contributes to proposin...

As society is transformed by the usc of new technologies, information policy issues cross traditional boundaries to be found in a wide range of decision-making arenas. The New World Information Order (NWIO) debate lies relatively quiescent in Unesco, but surfaces in international trade negotiations in response to the US push to get trade in services, or international information flows, included...

* Ronald Koenig Term Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A.B., Harvard University; J.D., LL.M. (foreign and international law), Duke University. 1 The World Trade Organization came into existence on January 1, 1995. It was the culmination of over seven years of multilateral trade negotiations known as the Uruguay Round. The Uruguay Round c...

Recent trade disagreements over hormone treated beef, genetically modified foods, and antiretroviral drugs have captured the public interest and revealed the tensions between national public health policies and the need to comply with trade agreements overseen by the World Trade Organisation. A new round of global trade negotiations will be on the agenda next month at the World Trade Organisati...

a r t i c l e i n f o The current literature suggests that tariff escalation (TE) lowers the competitiveness of processing sectors. Coffee and cotton are agricultural products that face the problem of TE in developing countries, where we observe low global coffee product export shares but high global cotton textile export shares, posing a question on TE's impact on competitiveness. This paper e...

We compare the well-known first-price auction with a common but previously unexamined exchange process that we term “multilateral negotiations.” In multilateral negotiations, a buyer solicits price offers for a homogeneous product from sellers with heterogeneous costs, and then plays the sellers off one another to obtain additional price concessions. Using experimental methods, we find that tra...

This study has critically examined different aspects of Counter-Cyclical Payments (CCPs) in the context of commitment of United State of America (US) under the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and future obligations under recent Doha Round Negotiations. The study has highlighted the shortcomings in domestic support notifications of US to WTO and their impact on product-specific support to the agr...

When the Uruguay Rounds concluded in 1994, many countries signed on to the trade agreements creating the World Trade Organization (WTO) in hopes of benefiting from a system of trade rules “dedicated to open, fair and undistorted competition” (1). WTO members also undertook to implement the TradeRelated Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement. Developing countries, major develo...