abstractthis paper examines the impasse in the current doha development round negotiations andasks how the rules of the wto could be changed to facilitate multilateral negotiations andto increase the welfare of the member countries. it considers possible changes to the methodof negotiation. as examples of rules which are outdated, it considers the rules relating toregional trade agreements and ...

the wto is an international organization which arranges international commercial rules and disputes settlements. increasingly joining of countries to the wto and movement for freedom of commercial regime in industrial or developing countries are deniable testimonies for globalization. gradual reduction of tariff and competition in exports and internal markets by their advantages have jeopardize...

Anti-dumping rules are flexible and open to political bias. This is a concern repeated all over the world. All jurisdictions tailor their anti-dumping laws to WTO rules, but this still leaves a significant amount of discretion as to how decisions are made. In the EU, the lack of transparency in anti-dumping decision making further heightens suspicions that it is not always driven by sound econo...

AbstractThis paper examines the impasse in the current Doha Development Round negotiations andasks how the rules of the WTO could be changed to facilitate multilateral negotiations andto increase the welfare of the Member countries. It considers possible changes to the methodof negotiation. As examples of rules which are outdated, it considers the rules relating toregional trade agreements and ...

This essay examines the need for and slow progress towards a revision of Anti-Dumping Agreement. There are ongoing negotiations on Agreement, but they without positive outcomes. Several reasons account this failure such as deadlock in Doha Development Round, mega trade agreements unwillingness top anti-dumping users to engage meaningful reform. In paper, alternative solutions proposed settle hi...

Normative solutions to reform the Anti-Dumping Agreement include a comprehensive amendment of Agreement. Such revision has already been suggested in literature, but this study departs from most others by prioritizing procedural issues rather than substantive ones. The proposes changes enhancing justice anti-dumping processes. Due constraints on short timescale, other possibilities are also disc...

FOR most of its 100 years of existence, anti-dumping (AD) was not nearly the problem that it is today. In fact, for most of its existence it is fair to say that AD could hardly have been called a problem for the international trading community. Over its first 70 years, AD was neither widely adopted nor were AD duties widely imposed by the handful of countries who were AD users. Over the last 30...