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Special and Differential Treatment Reform in the WTO
This book proposes a new approach to differentiating between developing countries in the context of special and differential treatment (SDT) in the World Trade Organisation. Offering unique insights into SDT reform in the WTO, the book proposes the method of differentiated differentiation and demonstrates its operationalization using the WTO Customs Valuation Agreement. Through identifying key indicators to categorize constraints faced by developing countries, the book establishes objective criteria to depoliticize access to SDT. Promoting a case-by-case approach, the book also employs a statistics-based score procedure to determine a threshold for graduating countries out of SDT. Through flexible tracking and evidence-based arguments, the book provides a transitional method of reform which maintains full compliance with WTO members’ obligations. The book will be of importance to academics and students of international law, especially those with an interest in international trade law and the WTO, as well as legal professionals and policymakers.
Special and Differential Treatment Reform in the Wto
"This book proposes a new approach to differentiating between developing countries in the context of Special and Differential Treatment (SDT) in the World Trade Organisation. Offering unique insights into SDT reform within the WTO, the book proposes the method of differentiated differentiation and demonstrates its operationalisation using the WTO Customs Valuation Agreement. Through identifying key indicators to categorise constraints faced by developing countries, the book establishes objective criteria to depoliticise access to SDT. Promoting a case-by-case approach, the book also employs a statistics-based score procedure to determine a threshold for graduating countries out of SDT. Through flexible tracking and evidence-based arguments, the book provides a transitional method of reform which maintains full compliance with WTO members' obligations. The book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in international trade law, economic law, and the WTO"--
Defining the Character of the Enabling Clause
The need for an apt delimitation of the Enabling Clause and its applicability to measures covered by Article 1:1 of the GATT cannot be over-emphasized. The efficacy of the entire GSP scheme, which is basically a response to developing countries' agitations for 'special and differential treatment', taking into consideration their 'development, financial and trade needs' depends on it. Thus the strategic role of the Enabling Clause in promoting trade as a means of stimulating economic growth and development in such developing countries makes it imperative that its applicability is not unduly limited under any guise. In characterizing the Enabling Clause, this paper engages in an incisive analy...
Revitalizing the World Trading System
In recent years, the world trading system has been confronted by a range of new and developing challenges: the risk of climate change, the instability of the digital economy, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 and the threat of future pandemics, to name but a few. In this book, veteran trade negotiator, Ambassador Alan Wm. Wolff, draws from his years of experience at the World Trade Organization to consider the history of trade, the current trading system and how it should be reformed in the future. Offering a rare insight into the inner workings of the WTO, Wolff is uniquely placed to identify deficiencies in the current system and suggest actionable solutions. This essential guidebook to the WTO equips readers with the tools and knowledge required to tackle to emerging and emergent challenges of a global trading system.
The ACP Group and the EU Development Partnership
This book constitutes a systematic and critical assessment of the nature, evolution, and prospects of the development partnership between the 79-member African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of states and the 28-member European Union (EU). A core theme that runs through the work is that the ACP’s partnership with the EU remains an important framework for addressing development challenges in the African, Caribbean, and Pacific regions, but needs to adapt to changes in the global political economy, as well as internal developments in both the ACP and the EU, to sustain its relevance and effectiveness. This is crucial for the ACP group, in particular, given its origins in, and core focus...
Legal Issues on the Validity of the MFN Clauses in the EPAs
Following a submission by Brazil at the WTO General Council meeting in Febraury 2008, on the potentially disastrous implications of the MFN provisions in the initialled EPAs between the EU and many ACP States, the debate has increasingly continued as to the undermining effects of the provisions on South-South trade cooperation under the Enabling Clause. Some comments have indeed underscored the potential utility of these provisions in securing for ACP States, simpler rules of origin that may be conceded by the EU in a subsequent FTA with more powerful negotiating countries than the ACP States. This paper follows a different approach to the debate by examining the legality of the MFN clauses ...
The Monfort Plan
The Monfort Plan is a five-year, forward looking plan to eradicate extreme poverty from the developing world, and details how microfinance has made a difference to developing countries. This book proposes a new institution based in the developing world with the potential to provide a basic, free, and universal service in the areas of water, sanitation, healthcare, and education to the extreme poor worldwide. The provision will be subject to a certain degree of conditionality in areas ranging from corruption to legal environment. The new institution will be established in a new international territory based within a specific country in Subsaharan Africa and will emerge in 2015. In The Monfort...
The Unmaking of Special Rights
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. In light of the many significant recent changes to the global order, The Unmaking of Special Rights explores an often-forgotten aspect of this arrangement: special rights for developing countries. This book analyzes when and how special rights for developing countries have evolved in the context of global power shifts.
Emerging Powers in the International Economic Order
Charts emerging countries' dissatisfaction with the world order and offers perspectives for a new international economic governance regime.
Negotiating Trade in Uncertain Worlds
This book shows how a constructivist account of bargaining sheds new light on the emergence of impasse situations in international trade negotiations. It uncovers the subtle ways in which misperceptions – and the problems of overcoming them – complicate negotiations. It brings to the forefront misperceptions and sticky beliefs that complicate trade talks between the Global South and the Global North. Empirically, the book examines the recent negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union (EU) and West Africa (2002–2014). In doing so, it enriches the study of negotiations of development-oriented trade agreements in the context of a major North-South partnersh...
