A country may opt for different type of reciprocal trade liberalization leading to either multilateral or bilateral/plurilateral negotiations. If it chooses a multilateral approach, it will focus on the big negotiations table of the World Trade Organization (WTO). If however it prefers to negotiate with a smaller number of partners, it will end up having petite comité rounds with one or several...

This paper is one in a series of briefing papers by the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Each of the papers focuses on an issue of particular importance for sustainable development in the South in the WTO’s current round of negotiations—the so-called Doha Development Agenda. The aim of the series is to set out, in brief and uncomplicated style, what is at stake in those nego...

During negotiations of mega-regional trade agreements, state representatives have the incentive to demand that other parties align with their entrenched regulatory practices. Indeed, a country’s exporters will derive extensive benefits if negotiating partners fulfill these demands. Strictly pursuing self-interest, however, often leads to stalemate. When the United States (US) and European Union...

The development focus of the Doha Round emerged from a renewed spirit of responsibility for the challenges faced by poor countries and the perceived inequities generated by previous rounds of trade negotiations. This study presents an alternative way forward for the Doha Round based on principles of social justice and economic analysis. It looks at the trade negotiation agenda from the perspect...

1846 Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa won fewer concessions on their exports in the Uruguay Round than did other developing countries, but they still emerged facing fewer or lower restrictions than others. They should be more active in the next Round, focusing negotiations not on trade preferences but on bound most-favored-nation tariff reductions. Summary findings Openness and liberal trade pol...

This paper theoretically and empirically explores bargaining delay in tariff negotiations. By imposing a bargaining structure in an equilibrium trade framework, I derive many testable predictions of delay. I then take my model to the newly compiled GATT (Torquay) tariff negotiation data, which includes detailed (product-level) information of the timing and contents of countries’ (back-and-forth...

of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS IN O.C.E.A.N By Chaitanya Chokkareddy August 2002 Chair: Dr. Michael P. Frank Department: Computer and Information Science and Engineering The automation of negotiations is a real challenge in the world of e-business. The problem ste...

When economists speak of a globalizing world, they have in mind first and foremost the dramatic moves we have made toward a global common market; that is, our evolution toward a world economy integrated across national boundaries. Our progress in this direction has been especially dramatic in the liberalization of international trade in goods. Since multilateral trade negotiations produced the ...