Liberalizing international trade after Doha : multilateral, plurilateral, regional, and unilateral initiatives /

After ten years the Doha Development Round is effectively dead. Although some have suggested that Doha's demise threatens the continued existence of the GATT/WTO system, even with some risks of increasing protectionism, the United States, the European Union, Japan, Brazil, China and India, amon...

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Main Author: Gantz, David A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Cambridge international trade and economic law ; 15.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Pursuing trade liberalization in a post-Doha world
  • The world trading system under GATT and the WTO, 1947-2012
  • The Doha round failure and the likely demise of the "single undertaking"
  • Assisting developing nations with duty-free, quota-free market access, trade facilitation, and related initiatives
  • Preserving the environment: fisheries subsidies and trade in environmental goods
  • New and expanded plurilateral agreements (part I)
  • New and expanded plurilateral agreements (part II): an international services agreement
  • Continued proliferation of regional trade agreements
  • Widening and deepening (or disregarding) existing RTAs
  • Concluding new and pending RTAs (part I)
  • Concluding new and pending RTAs (part II): the Trans-Pacific partnership
  • Unileteral approaches to trade and market liberalization
  • Conclusions and the crystal ball.