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Interactive Breakfast Discussion: Disruptive Technologies and Trade for...
Language UndefinedNew technologies and their applications drive profound industrial and societal reorganization. Despite improved efficiency and aggregated enormous wealth associated with certain...
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Fish for Thought: Fisheries, International Trade and Sustainable Development
The Fisheries, International Trade and Sustainable Development programme at ICTSD has convened a series of publications and dialogues to discuss the intersection of trade policies, fisheries management...
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Net Gains: Linking Fisheries Management, International Trade and Sustainable...
Subsidies to fisheries are increasingly discussed in international fora such as the World Trade Organization and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as the negative impacts on the environment and...
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A border carbon adjustment could be applied to countries who currently do not have a carbon price on pollution. Revenues from these taxes could be used towards environmental and renewable energy...
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Regional trade agreement dispute settlement is prejudiced by the lack of a support structure for panels. Using an external body – as proposed in the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement – is a...
View ArticleUS Section 301, China, and technology transfer: Law and its limitations...
Disputes between the United States and China regarding transfer of technology and intellectual property are of long-standing nature. The more economically significant elements of China's practices...
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Designing Common but Differentiated Rules for Regional Trade Disputes
In the twenty-first century, World Trade Organization (WTO) members have put great energy and creativity in liberalising trade through regional trade agreements (RTAs), even as trade liberalisation in...
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The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism: A Trade Court for the World
This paper examines the reasons behind the underutilisation of dispute settlement mechanisms in regional trade agreements (RTAs). It suggests that countries could use the World Trade Organization...
View ArticleOptions for future proofing regional trade agreement dispute settlement...
After decades of experience in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization, trading nations have become accustomed to orderly and predicable mechanisms for resolving...
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Reforming Dispute Settlement in Trade: The Contribution of Mega-Regionals
Dispute settlement rules and procedures are an important component of so-called mega-regional trade agreements. Reacting to recurrent criticism of the legitimacy of dispute settlement in international...
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Regional Trade Agreement Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: Modes, Challenges and...
The importance of regional trade agreements (RTAs) and their dispute settlement mechanisms (DSMs) will likely continue to grow considering the dynamics of the multilateral trade negotiations and the...
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Our Alarming Climate Crisis Demands Border Adjustments Now
While the universally endorsed and widely ratified Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change aims to limit temperature increases to well below 2˚C above...
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As WTO members look to solve the stalemate in Geneva, this article assesses the possible hard and soft solutions for breaking the deadlock. Where some of the harder options risk inviting starker power...
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Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in RTAs
This meeting is part of the RTA Exchange dialogue series aimed at constructing better trade and investment agreements for sustainable development at the regional and multilateral levels.Together with...
View ArticleStandoff on WTO tribunal is more about the scope of intergovernmental...
The current impasse in the appointment of new members to the World Trade Organization Appellate Body risks leading to a dysfunctional dispute settlement system. This post argues that it is a...
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Talking Disputes | The Guatemala – US Labour Enforcement Dispute under CAFTA-DR
This special edition of Talking Disputes series discussed the recent arbitral panel report in the dispute In the Matter of Guatemala – Issues Relating to the Obligations Under Article 16.2.1(a) of the...
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Evaluating the Implementation Obligations of the Trade Facilitation Agreement
The entry into force of the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) is a significant development for the multilateral trading system. This paper examines the obligations contained in the TFA and compares...
View ArticleA proposal for a multilateral border carbon adjustment scheme that is...
As the world considers how to respond to the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, it may wish to consider the adoption of a border carbon adjustment scheme that...
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Renewable Energy Incentives from Legal and Economic Perspectives: Time for a...
Greenhouse gas emissions are a market failure. How might international trade rules respond? Renewable energy has a key role to play in mitigating climate change and guaranteeing long-term energy...
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Proposed border tax adjustments risk violating WTO rules
The author of this column argues that the corporate “destination-based cash-flow tax” proposed by House Republicans could provoke WTO lawsuits against the United States in the same way that new high...
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