Download or read book The WTO after Hong Kong written by Donna Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) critical December 2005 Hong Kong ministerial meeting, negotiations to implement the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) broke down completely in the summer of 2006. This book offers a detailed and critical evaluation of how and why the negotiations arrived at this point and what the future holds for the WTO. It brings together leading scholars in the field of trade from across the social sciences who address the key issues at stake, the principal players in the negotiations, the role of fairness and legitimacy in the Doha Round, and the prospects for the DDA’s conclusion. The WTO after Hong Kong is the most comprehensive account of the current state of the World Trade Organization and will be of enormous interest to students of trade politics, international organizations, development and international political economy.
Download or read book The WTO after Hong Kong written by Donna Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) critical December 2005 Hong Kong ministerial meeting, negotiations to implement the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) broke down completely in the summer of 2006. This book offers a detailed and critical evaluation of how and why the negotiations arrived at this point and what the future holds for the WTO. It brings together leading scholars in the field of trade from across the social sciences who address the key issues at stake, the principal players in the negotiations, the role of fairness and legitimacy in the Doha Round, and the prospects for the DDA’s conclusion. The WTO after Hong Kong is the most comprehensive account of the current state of the World Trade Organization and will be of enormous interest to students of trade politics, international organizations, development and international political economy.
Download or read book After the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Meeting written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Meeting written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hanging by a Thread written by and published by Consumer Unity & Trust Society. This book was released on 2006* with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Download or read book Hong Kong Ministerial Conference of the WTO written by Ichiro Araki and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hong Kong Ministerial Conference took place on the backdrop and hangover from the failures of some of the previous ministerial Conferences, especially of the Cancun Ministerial in 2003 to conclude the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). After failure of the third Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Seattle in 1999, the Doha Ministerial resolved to carry out trade negotiations coupled with developmental perspective and for that purpose had roughly identified twenty-one agenda items. But the DDA remained unfinished by Cancun, which had therefore caused failure of the fifth Ministerial Conference of WTO in Cancun. As a fallback measure, the July Package, 2004 was devised to save the Doha Development Round. In generality, July Package opened deadline for completion of DDA, aimed at the sixth Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong. However, none of the items were completed by Hong Kong, which could have caused failure of the Ministerial Conference. Nonetheless, under the Trade Negotiation Committee and other Committees of the WTO, enormous amount of efforts were expended to build consensus among the Members on the DDA. But because of the diverse views and positioning of the Member Countries consensus could not be achieved till the Hong Kong Ministerial. The stark differences of the Members were specially figured out on the issues of agriculture, non-agriculture market access (NAMA) and services. Nonetheless, there were some progresses. When talks recommence, negotiators cannot simply turn up and carry on where they left off in Hong Kong. They need to examine their consciences. They cannot simply be content that they have bought off the LDCs. In order for the world's poor to gain benefit from the multilateral trading system, the developed countries' markets as well as the markets of the emerging developing economies must be opened significantly. In other words, market access negotiations on agriculture, NAMA and services must be conducted at an expedited pace and they must deliver tangible results. Only by achieving this, the DDA can truly be turned into a development round for the world's poor. The matter is urgent and there is no room for complacency.
Download or read book World Trade Canc n Hong Kong and Beyond written by Jonathan Reuvid and published by GMB Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At this critical stage in the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations, this authoritative report takes stock of the limited progress that has been made since the Ministerial Conference in Cancùn in September 2003. There is a detailed, critical assessment of what has actually happened and where the WTO stands after the Ministerial Conference of December 2005 in Hong Kong. The conclusions are stark, casting doubt on whether the target dates of April and July 2006 for agreeing modalities in agriculture and non-agriculture market access (NAMA) and submitting schedules of commitments in both areas are achievable. In spite of further bargaining sessions between various Ministerial groups in camera, little if anything has occurred since the beginning of the year to raise hopes that these deadlines may be met. The report brings readers up-to-date on some key revisions in WTO practice under these headings: Anti-dumping Regulations and Practices (with particular reference to EU Law); Resolving Trade Disputes in the WTO; Private Party Enforcement of WTO Law in the EC; Legal Context Mechanisms for Regulating Environmental Barriers to Trade within the WTO.
Download or read book The WTO written by Rorden Wilkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rorden Wilkinson explores the factors behind the collapse of World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerials – as in Seattle in 1999 and Cancun in 2003 – and asks why such events have not significantly disrupted the development of the multilateral trading system. He argues that the political conflicts played out during such meetings, their occasional collapse and the reasons why such events have so far not proven detrimental to the development of the multilateral trading system can be explained by examining the way in which the institution was created and has developed through time. In addition, this new text: explores the development of the multilateral trading system from the creation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947 to the WTO’s Hong Kong ministerial in December 2005 examines the way in which the interaction of member states has been structured by the institution’s development assesses the impact of institutional practices and procedures on the heightening of political tensions and explains why WTO ministerials exhibit a propensity to collapse but why the breakdown of a meeting has so far not prevented the institution from moving forward This book will be of interest to scholars and students of international politics, economics and law
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Download or read book What s Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It written by Rorden Wilkinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating the global trade governance of today offers - and has consistently offered - developed countries more of the economic opportunities they already have and developing countries very little of what they desperately need. This is an unsustainable state of affairs to which the blockages in the Doha round provide ample testimony. So far only piecemeal solutions have been offered to refine this flawed system. Radical proposals that seek to fundamentally alter trade governance or reorient its purposes around more socially progressive and egalitarian goals are thin on the ground. Yet we eschew deeper reform at our peril. In What's Wrong with the World Trade Organization and How to Fix It Rorden Wilkinson argues that without global institutions fit for purpose, we cannot hope for the kind of fine global economic management that can put an end to major crises or promote development-for-all. Charting a different path he shows how the WTO can be transformed into an institution and a form of trade governance that fulfils its real potential and serves the needs of all.
Download or read book China and the WTO written by Supachai Panitchpakdi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-01-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work analyses the implications for world trade of China's entry into the World Trade Organization. It has taken fifteen long years of dialogue and heated debate and it will take its place among the other members at the end of 2001. This momentous event is relayed by the next WTO Chairman.
Download or read book The WTO Hong Kong Ministerial and the Doha Development Agenda written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doha Development Agenda placed the needs and interests of developing countries at the heart of the current round of world trade talks by seeking to redress existing imbalances in the multilateral trading system which work against their interests. The Committee's report focuses on the process and outcome of the Hong Kong Ministerial meeting, and makes policy recommendations to the UK Government and the European Commission about how to best ensure that the Doha Round can achieve a positive and ambitious outcome for the developing countries and to contribute most to poverty reduction.
Download or read book Least Developed Countries and the WTO written by H. Hawthorne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A norm of special treatment for LDCs, created by the UN, has spread to various international organisations including the WTO. Within the WTO evidence of the institutionalization of the norm can be found both in the agreements and legal documents and the way in which the LDCs have been treated by other states. Helen Hawthorne investigates how norms impact on negotiations in international organisations. She shows that few studies of international organisations focus on the role of the weaker states in the organization, the majority focus either on the major states or the emerging economies. By ignoring the role of the poorer, weaker states in the GATT/WTO we are ignoring the history of these states in the organisation and do not get a true picture of the organization, how it operates in relation to them and their impact on the organisation.
Download or read book After Hong Kong Potential Impacts of the WTO Doha Round Special Report written by Martín and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The European Commission s Negotiating Strategy for the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Trade and Industry Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Commissions negotiating strategy for the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial : Oral and written Evidence
Download or read book Report on Trade Mission to the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Singapore and to Hong Kong and the People s Republic of China written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After Hong Kong written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
