Download or read book Developing Countries and the Next Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations written by Anne O. Krueger and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing Countries and the Next Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations written by Anne O. Krueger and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad-based liberalization is in the interests of developing countries.Developing countries became full-fledged participants in multilateral trade negotiations only with the Uruguay Round, during which they succeeded in bringing agriculture into the GATT/WTO, reaching agreement on phasing out the Multi-Fibre Arrangement within 10 years, and beginning work on services, among other things.Their overriding interest in the new round is still to ensure the healthy expansion of an open multilateral trading system.Developing countries should seek across-the-board liberalization rather than zero-for-zero reductions, which tend to favor the interests of industrial countries (which focus on sectors in which they have comparative advantage) and diminish the support for further cuts.Liberalization of agricultural trade provides important opportunities. Developing countries have a considerable stake in reducing agricultural protection and subsidies and prohibiting agricultural taxes and export quotas.Of particular interest are agreements covering services-including, for example, agreements on ways to permit the temporary immigration of construction workers. It is important that labor standards not be used to stifle competition from labor-abundant developing countries-that any agreement about labor standards not raise the costs of unskilled labor in countries whose comparative advantage lies in exported products that use unskilled labor extensively-and that excessively high product standards not be imposed.Developing countries can increase their leverage substantially by forming coalitions based on common interests in a wide range of areas (as the Cairns group did in the Uruguay Round).This paper - a product of Trade, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to identify opportunities for developing countries in the WTO 2000 negotiations. The author may be contacted at [email protected].
Download or read book Developing Countries And The Multilateral Trading System written by T. N. Srinivasan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a historical perspective of the Uruguay Round agreement and focuses on the interaction between the developed and developing countries on matters relating to the global trading system and its disciplines since the founding of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Download or read book A Positive Agenda for Developing Countries written by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents a collection of technical papers prepared as background papers in the framework of regional and Ad Hoc meetings held by Member States, in parallel with the preparatory process of the Third World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference. The compilation of papers include: the positive agenda and the Seattle Conference; elements of a positive agenda; special and differential treatment in the context of globalisation; the post-Uruguay Round tariff environment for developing country exports; the interest of developing countries in the next round of WTO agricultural negotiations; trade-related investment measures; technical transfer in the WTO agreements; and electronic-commerce, WTO and developing countries.
Download or read book Developing Countries and the Uruguay Round Negotiations on Services written by Bernard M. Hoekman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many developing countries are pursuing regulatory reform and liberalization. To what extent will signing the General Agreement on Trade an Services help governments trying to make their service sectors more efficient? Is the result of the defensive negotiating strategy that was pursued consistent with the shift toward a policy of liberalizing service markets?
Download or read book Trade Policy and Market Access Issues for Developing Countries written by Constantine Michalopoulos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of developing countries' current trade policies and market access problems is used as a basis for recommending positions for these countries in the new round of multilateral negotiations under the World Trade Organization.
Download or read book Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trade Regime written by Donatella Alessandrini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the way in which 'development' has functioned within the multilateral trade regime since de-colonisation. In particular, it investigates the shift from early approaches to development under the GATT to current approaches to development under the WTO. It argues that a focus on the creation and transformation of a scientific apparatus that links forms of knowledge about the so-called Third World with forms of power and intervention is crucial for understanding the six decades long development enterprise of both the GATT and the WTO. The book is both topical and necessary given the emphasis on the current round of negotiations of the WTO. The Doha 'Development' Round has been premised on two assumptions. Firstly, that the international community has undertaken an unprecedented effort to address the imbalances of the multilateral trading regime with respect to the position of its developing country members. Secondly, that its successful conclusion represents an historic imperative and a political necessity for developing countries. Through a sustained analysis of the interaction between development thinking and trade practices, the book questions both assumptions by showing how development has always occupied a central position within the multilateral trading regime. Thus, rather than asking the question of what needs to be done in order to achieve 'development', the book examines the way in which development has operated and still operates to produce important, and often unacknowledged, power relations. "Intense controversy surrounds the issue of the relationship between trade and development. This book is novel in examining the emergence of the international trade regime in the context of the history of the concept of development that may be traced back at least to the time of the League of Nations. This is a very welcome and original contribution to the field that should generate new discussions and understanding about the law of international trade." Antony Anghie, University of Utah
Download or read book Interests and Options of Developing and Least developed Countries in a New Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Current Negotiations in the WTO written by Bhagirath Lal Das and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An issue-by-issue guide to the current round of world trade negotiations.
Download or read book Developing Countries and Global Trade Negotiations written by Larry Crump and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doha Round of WTO negotiations commenced in November 2001 to further liberalize international trade and to specifically seek to remove trade barriers so developing countries might compete in major markets. This book brings together an international team of leading academics and researchers to explore the main issues of the Doha Round trade negotiations, such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals and services trade. In particular, it looks at how the formation of the G20 has complicated negotiations and made it harder to balance the competing interests of developed and developing countries, despite rhetorical assertion that the outcomes of this Round would reflect the interests of developing countries. The authors examine both how developing countries form alliances (such as the G20) to negotiate in the WTO meetings and also explore specific issues affecting developing countries including: trade in services investment, competition policy, trade facilitation and transparency in government procurement TRIPS and public health agricultural tariffs and subsidies. Contributing to an understanding of the dynamics of trade negotiations and the future of multilateralism, Developing Countries and Global Trade Negotiations will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of international trade, international negotiations, IPE and international relations.
Download or read book The Uruguay Round and Beyond written by John Whalley and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a report about developing country participation both in the current Uruguay round and beyond, arguing that over the post war years a climate of mistrust has evolved between developed and developing countries over trade issues.
Download or read book Trade Policy and Market Access Issues for Developing Countries written by Constantine Michalopoulos and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of developing countries' current trade policies and market access problems is used as a basis for recommending positions for these countries in the new round of multilateral negotiations under the World Trade Organization.Michalopoulos analyzes 61 trade policy reviews prepared for the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT - reviews that document the progress developing countries have made in integration with the world trading system over the past decade. Based on an analysis of post-Uruguay Round tariff and nontariff barriers worldwide, he then recommends developing country positions on major issues in the new round of WTO trade negotiations.His key conclusions and recommendations:middot; Agriculture. Developing countries should support the Cairns Group in its push for greater liberalization of industrial countries' agricultural trade policies; the revised Food Aid Convention is not a substitute for but a complement to worldwide liberalization of agriculture.middot; Manufactures. The existence of tariff peaks and escalation in industrial country markets and the limited bindings at relatively high levels of developing country tariffs on manufactures present opportunities for negotiations with good prospects for shared and balanced benefits.The remaining nontariff barriers in industrial countries that affect manufactures are concentrated in textiles and clothing. Developing countries should ensure that industrial countries implement their commitments to liberalize this sector and impose no new nontariff barriers in this or other sectors under the guise of other rules or arrangements.The remaining nontariff barriers in developing countries should be converted into tariffs and reduced over time as part of the negotiations.middot; Antidumping. The increased use of antidumping measures by high- and middle-income developing countries in recent periods offers an opportunity for balanced negotiations to restrict their use. Reduced use of antidumping measures would increase efficiency and benefit consumers in all countries. But it is unclear whether a supportive climate for such negotiations exists in either industrial or developing countries.This paper - a product of Trade, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to identify opportunities for developing countries in the WTO 2000 negotiations. The author may be contacted at [email protected].
Download or read book What Can the Developing Countries Infer from the Uruguay Round Models for Future Negotiations written by John Whalley and published by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses the results from the general equilibrium trade models executed towards the end of the Uruguay Round, reporting both aggregate and regional gains. The paper argues that there are substantial inconsistencies across model results which are sometimes hard to explain. One model shows most of the gains come from agricultural liberalisation, another from textiles, and yet another from tariff cuts. One model shows developing countries account for around 10 per cent of the total gain, another shows them to gain over 50 per cent. Other differences are also shown. Differences occur even when similar data sets and benchmark years are used, and are hard to explain on the basis of the parametric specifications for the models, although these are frequently poorly described. The paper also discusses the verification of models relative to behaviour since the Round concluded, expressing scepticism as to its feasibility. The implications for the developing countries and possible ways of making these models more usable for developing countries for the next round of trade negotiations are also discussed.
Download or read book The Trade Game written by Bibek Debroy and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the negotiating strategies of India and several other WTO members over the years, this volume explores the negotiating scenario and the concerns for India and other developing countries. The introduction notes that judging by the experience of Cancun (2003) and the recent Hong Kong Ministerial (2005), developing countries are fast emerging as quick learners of the rules of the game, but need to sharpen those skills further: "It is quite prudent to understand that hidden from public glare, both the battle and the war will now continue in Geneva, which is less of a free trade bastion than Hong Kong. It is by now a time-honoured fact that the intensity of liberalisation undertaken at home makes handling the WTO-induced reforms easier, and the priorities for Indian policy makers are therefore, obvious. Notwithstanding the WTO objective, even eleven years after the inception of the multilateral body, the trade barriers, both in developed and developing countries are quite significant and unilateral liberalisation is not easily forthcoming. Although this lack of market access hurt the developing countries much more severely than their developed counterparts, the former group never systematically bargained at the negotiating table with the latter before the Doha Ministerial (2001). Looking at the negotiating strategies of India and several other WTO members over the years, the nine papers in this volume explore the current negotiating scenario and the concerns for India and other developing countries. While some papers attempt to chalk out the future of global free trade and the determinants of protectionism of major players, the other ones look into the future of India's sectoral negotiating strategy.
Download or read book Trade Policies Toward Developing Countries written by Lorenzo L. Pérez and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reshaping the World Trading System written by John Croome and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history and evolution of the Uruguay Round, this book seeks to explain how it came about, why it covered the subjects it did, what the participants sought, & the twists, turns, setbacks & successes in each sector of the negotiations.
Download or read book Africa s Role in Multilateral Trade Negotiations written by Zhen Kun Wang and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
