The WTO in 2003 : structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha round
Much has changed in the transition from the GATT to the WTO. Three worrying trends stand out: 1) standards harmonisation and regulatory overload; 2) excessive the diplomatic and negotiating mechanism that worked well in the GATT. The focus of efforts must be the Doha Round. The new round has a la...
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| author | Sally, Razeen |
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| description | Much has changed in the transition from the GATT to the WTO. Three worrying trends stand out: 1) standards harmonisation and regulatory overload; 2) excessive the diplomatic and negotiating mechanism that worked well in the GATT. The focus of efforts must be the Doha Round.
The new round has a large, messy agenda. The market access negotiations (on agriculture, services and industrial goods) have been held up due to the EU's unwillingness to undertake serious agricultural liberalisation. The rules negotiations (on anti-dumping procedures, countervailing measures, subsidies, regional trade agreements,and dispute settlement) may well suffer from neglect. Negotiations on developing country issues (implementation, Special and Differential Treatment, and trade-related intellectual property right), have missed key deadlines, Work programmes and negotiations on new issues (the four Singapore issues - investment, competition, trade facilitation and transparency in government procurement - and trade-and-environment) have hardly moved at all. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/905742020-11-01T08:43:37Z The WTO in 2003 : structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha round Sally, Razeen S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::Asia Much has changed in the transition from the GATT to the WTO. Three worrying trends stand out: 1) standards harmonisation and regulatory overload; 2) excessive the diplomatic and negotiating mechanism that worked well in the GATT. The focus of efforts must be the Doha Round. The new round has a large, messy agenda. The market access negotiations (on agriculture, services and industrial goods) have been held up due to the EU's unwillingness to undertake serious agricultural liberalisation. The rules negotiations (on anti-dumping procedures, countervailing measures, subsidies, regional trade agreements,and dispute settlement) may well suffer from neglect. Negotiations on developing country issues (implementation, Special and Differential Treatment, and trade-related intellectual property right), have missed key deadlines, Work programmes and negotiations on new issues (the four Singapore issues - investment, competition, trade facilitation and transparency in government procurement - and trade-and-environment) have hardly moved at all. 2009-02-05T09:32:52Z 2019-12-06T17:50:08Z 2009-02-05T09:32:52Z 2019-12-06T17:50:08Z 2003 2003 Working Paper Sally, R. (2003). The WTO in 2003 : structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha round. (RSIS Working Paper, No. 43). Singapore: Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90574 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4445 RSIS Working Papers ; 43/03 Nanyang Technological University 62 p. application/pdf |
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| title | The WTO in 2003 : structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha round |
| title_full | The WTO in 2003 : structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha round |
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| title_short | The WTO in 2003 : structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha round |
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