Equilibrating the Global Trading System and the Doha Round

2005 ◽  
pp. 31-53
Author(s):  
Dilip K Das
Keyword(s):  
Doha Round ◽  
Trading System

The Long and Winding Road – Path Towards Facilitation of Development in the WTO: Reflections on the Doha Round and Beyond

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong-Shik Lee
Keyword(s):  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Regional Trade ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Institutional Frameworks ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Multilateral Trading System ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Gap

AbstractThe current multilateral trading system under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) displays a substantial development gap in the regulatory and institutional frameworks. The Doha Round negotiations, which was initiated to promote development interests under the Doha Development Agenda (DDA), have not been concluded for over 14 years, raising doubts about the ability of the WTO system to promote development interests effectively. While the Doha Round was sluggish for a number of years, regional trade agreements, which currently include every WTO Member, have been proliferated, creating significant implications for developing countries. This article examines the development of the Doha Round, analyzes the causes of its impasse, and explores its future prospects. The article also discusses the development gap in the current trading system and advances reform proposals to fill the gap in the system.

Group of Twenty - Reinvigorating Trade to Support Growth

Policy Papers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (29) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Trade Policy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Trade Integration ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Regulatory Cooperation ◽  
Efficiency And Productivity ◽  
Trade And Investment

Reinvigorating trade integration should be a key component of the global policy agenda to boost growth. Trade policy’s new frontiers such as services, regulatory cooperation, and trade and investment complementarities carry high potential to bolster efficiency and productivity. But with governments differing on whether to continue the WTO Doha Round, there is an urgent need to identify a path for the global trading system in today’s more complex trade policy landscape. A long interregnum without a path forward would risk fragmenting the global trade system and undermining its governance. Tackling trade policy issues important to the global economy may require flexible approaches to multilateral negotiations, including modalities such as plurilaterals. Enhanced coherence efforts are also needed to ensure that regional trade agreements and multilateralism coexist productively.

WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION REFORM: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 120-126
Author(s):  
E. A. LUKASHIK ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Changing Trends ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
The Status ◽  
New Challenges

The world trade organization (WTO) has faced a number of challenges related to changing trends in the global trading system. In addition to the differences that have accumulated during the Doha round of trade negotiations, new issues need to be discussed, such as the regulation of e-Commerce, the revision of intellectual property rules, the need to tighten the rules on subsidies and public procurement, and improving the effectiveness of the Appeals body. Due to the rapid economic growth of a number of developing countries, it is necessary to redistribute the benefits provided and review the status of the organization's member countries. Outdated WTO rules do not meet the new challenges of the 21st century. The main problems faced by WTO members are analyzed, the positions of developed and developing countries are highlighted, and ways to resolve the organization's crisis are presented.

scholarly journals First Diagnose, Then Treat: What Ails the Doha Round?

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT WOLFE
Keyword(s):  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Trade Flows ◽  
First Century ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Regulatory Issues ◽  
Multilateral Trade ◽  
Centre Of Gravity

AbstractThe commonplace tendency is to blame the difficulties of the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations on the World Trade Organization (WTO) itself. In contrast, I suggest in the first section of this article that exogenous structural factors, especially changing commodity prices and trade flows, fatally undermined the Round. In the second section, I discount the significance of endogenous institutional factors such as the number of participants, the size of the agenda, or the Single Undertaking, although design failures, notably in the ‘modalities’ for negotiation, did hurt. But what hurt even more was the way the WTO, in common with most multilateral organizations, has not caught up with the shifting centre of gravity in global governance. The trading system is no longer a transatlantic bargain. The regulatory issues on the twenty-first century trade policy agenda will inevitably be negotiated in Geneva, but only after a new trans-Pacific accommodation recognizes China's central role.

scholarly journals Energy and Trade in the Time of Destabilized Multilateralism: Innovative Economic Policies for the WTO

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Anna Lanoszka
Keyword(s):  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Multilateral Trade ◽  
International Trade Agreements ◽  
The World ◽  
World Trading System ◽  
Trade Deals

<p><em>The multilateral trade system has been in trouble for over a decade. The set of international trade agreements managed by the World Trade Organization (WTO) has never meaningfully expanded beyond its 1990s founding package. Instead, since early 2000s bilateral trade deals done outside the WTO have multiplied. The WTO is better known today for the troubled trajectory of the unfinished Doha Round. The rhetoric of economic nationalism by the current US Administration does not help. It is time to consider new creative options before the world trading system becomes irreparably fragmented by politics. To this extent the following article advocates an initiative of creating an open plurilateral agreement on services related to energy sector under the framework of the WTO’s GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services). Energy security remains the key international issue. Initiating talks among interested countries on energy related services under GATS can move the WTO forward towards pragmatic solutions and encourage international cooperation on the critical economic matter. </em></p>

scholarly journals Trade, the Precautionary Principle, and Post-Modern Regulatory Process

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Bergkamp ◽  
Lawrence Kogan
Keyword(s):  
Market Access ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
Regional Trade ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Transatlantic Trade ◽  
Consumer Markets ◽  
Multilateral Trading System ◽  
The World ◽  
Regulatory Convergence ◽  
Trade And Investment

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (“TTIP”) has been hailed as an opportunity for the world's two largest consumer markets to expand inter- regional trade, investment and jobs, and to secure greater regulatory convergence that could considerably reduce costly and market-distorting extra-territorial non-tariff regulatory trade barriers. As fears of potential adverse effects on the World Trade Organization’s multilateral trading system have abated after the Doha round stalled, the initiation of the TTIP has been welcomed by the business communities on both sides of the Atlantic.Notwithstanding the anticipated benefits, questions arise with respect to both the way the negotiations are conducted and the topics covered. The TTIP negotiating mandate covers three main elements: (i) market access, (ii) regulatory convergence, and (iii) trade rules addressing shared global challenges.

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