APEC and the World Trade Organization: Does Regional Integration Strengthen the Global Trade Regime?

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-189
Author(s):  
Heribert Dieter
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Trade Regime ◽  
The World

Does Flexibility Promote Cooperation? An Application to the Global Trade Regime

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kucik ◽  
Eric Reinhardt
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
World Trade ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Trade Regime ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
The World

Do flexibility provisions in international agreements—clauses allowing for legal suspension of concessions without abrogating the treaty—promote cooperation? Recent work emphasizes that provisions for relaxing treaty commitments can ironically make states more likely to form agreements and make deeper concessions when doing so. This argument has particularly been applied to the global trade regime, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). Yet the field has not produced much evidence bearing on this claim. Our article applies this claim to the global trade regime and its chief flexibility provision, antidumping. In contrast to prior work, this article explicitly models the endogeneity and selection processes envisioned by the theory. We find that states joining the WTO are more likely to adopt domestic antidumping mechanisms. Likewise, corrected for endogeneity, states able to take advantage of the regime's principal flexibility provision, by having a domestic antidumping mechanism in place, are significantly more likely to (1) join the WTO, (2) agree to more tightly binding tariff commitments, and (3) implement lower applied tariffs as well.

5. The Evolution of the Global Trade Regime

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Capling ◽  
Silke Trommer
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
Trade Regime ◽  
The Past ◽  
System P ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Antecedents

This chapter focuses on the evolution of the global trade regime, with particular emphasis on how it has been established through the actions of trading countries over the past 150 years, how it became institutionalized in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and why it is facing difficulties now. It first considers the historical antecedents of the global trade regime from 1860 to 1945, focusing on the golden age of liberalism and the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934. It then looks at the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT), the Uruguay Round, the WTO, and the Doha Round, along with the WTO's relationship with civil society. It concludes by outlining the range of challenges to the multilateral trade system.

Does the WTO Need to Change?

2010 ◽  
Vol 109 (730) ◽  
pp. 355-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Schott
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
The World

The World Trade Organization is in disrepair. To fix it, and thereby boost global trade liberalization, nations must first successfully conclude the Doha Round of talks.

scholarly journals GLOBAL TRADE AND THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Badar Alam Iqbal ◽  
Jorge Leandro Delconte Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
The World

World Trade Organization

2018 ◽  
pp. 298-312
Author(s):  
Rorden Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Complex Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War ◽  
International Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a complex organization with a plethora of apparent contradictions. This chapter offers an introduction to the WTO and its role in governing global trade. It examines the organization’s evolution from a failed post-war attempt to create the International Trade Organization (ITO), the emergence in the ITO’s place of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the eventual creation of today’s WTO. The chapter then explores its organizational fundamentals as well as some of the issues likely to loom largest on the global trade agenda in the coming years before offering some concluding comments.

Was the Way Really Long?

2012 ◽  
pp. 70-73
Author(s):  
S. Sutyrin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Regulatory Environment ◽  
Summer Period ◽  
Reasonable Time ◽  
Trade Regime ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Federation

18 years summer period of negotiations on the Russian Federation joining the World Trade Organization doesn't look like something extraordinary. It is clear that there exist not any rigid, objective criteria for a candidate to match. Actually, an applicant may rather quickly become a WTO member merely having agreed to implement all required changes relating to foreign trade regime and corresponding regulatory environment within a reasonable time. In case of Russia the purpose of negotiations was to assure accession conditions acceptable for the country. The results are to be estimated in the nearest future.

scholarly journals MANAGEMENT IN A TIME OF RADICAL UNCERTAINTY

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-78
Author(s):  
Marc Jacquinet
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Radical Uncertainty ◽  
The Impact

Societies are still, now, indubitably, in the middle of a major sanitary and health crisis, all over. If April 2020 was a time of local lockdown in Asia, Europe and the Americas, it is expanding globally, and countries that are unable or unwilling to manage the spread of the disease are putting their health system as well as their social and economic activities under pressure, without ignoring the heavy toll on human populations. The impact of the Sars-CoV-2 and the resulting disease for humans is already tremendous, above 3 percent of GDP for the first quarter of 2020 and above 15 or 20 percent for the whole current year. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO 2020) the decline of global trade is reckoned between 13 and 32 % (OECD 2020).

scholarly journals World Trade Organization: Penyelesaian Sengketa Dagang Impor Ayam (Brazil V. Indonesia)

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Natalia Yeti Puspita ◽  
Karen Yohana ◽  
Fadhil Arkaan Katili
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Chicken Meat ◽  
Trade Regime ◽  
Wto Dispute Settlement ◽  
The World ◽  
Case Number

The world trade regime began in 1948 which began with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). After experiencing several developments, a forum was formed namely the World Trade Organization (WTO). By ratifying the agreement on the WTO, Indonesia must adjust the existing regulations to the provisions or decisions made by the trade organization. In 2009, Indonesia was having a dispute about chicken importation with Brazil. This case arises when Indonesia implements policies that inhibit chicken export activities from Brazil to Indonesia. Indonesia claims that Indonesia only ensures that the chicken is healthy and halal for consumption. This dispute was then brought to the WTO Dispute Settlement Body with case number DS 484: Indonesia - Measures Meat Chicken Meat and Chicken Products. Keyword: Dispute Settlement Body, World Trade Organization, Impor Ayam, Brazil, Indonesia. Abstrak. Rezim perdagangan dunia sudah dimulai sejak tahun 1948 yang diawali dengan adanya General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Setelah mengalami beberapa perkembangan, dibentuklah sebuah wadah yaitu World Trade Organization (WTO) yang merupakan organisasi perdagangan dunia. Dengan meratifikasi agreement tentang WTO, Indoensia harus menyesuaikan peraturan dan regulasi yang ada dengan ketentuan atau hasil keputusan organisasi perdagangan tersebut. Pada 2009, Indonesia terkena sengketa impor ayam dengan Brazil. Kasus ini timbul ketika Indonesia diduga memberlakukan kebijakan yang menghambat kegiatan ekspor ayam dari Brazil ke Indonesia. Sengketa ini kemudian dibawa ke Badan Penyelesaian Sengketa WTO dengan nomor kasus DS 484: Indonesia - Measures Meat Chiken Meat and Chiken Products. Kata Kunci: Dispute Settlement Body, World Trade Organization, Impor Ayam, Brazil, Indonesia.

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