Emerging Trends in WTO Dispute Settlement : Back to the GATT?

Emerging Trends in WTO Dispute Settlement : Back to the GATT?

As the number of cases in the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system has increased, there has been a greater effort by the academic community to analyze the data for emerging trends. Holmes Rollo, and Young seek to develop this li...

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Main Authors: Holmes, Peter, Rollo, Jim, Young, Alasdair R.
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
TRENDS
SETTLEMENTS
REGULATORY PROGRAMS
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
TRADE
ANTI-DUMPING TARIFFS
SAFEGUARDS SYSTEM
TRADE STRUCTURE
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
INCOME
DOMESTIC REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
INVESTMENT POLICY
TRADE ISSUES
DEFENSE POLICY AGREEMENT ON TRADE
BASIC
BORDER TRADE
CD
COMPUTER EQUIPMENT
CONCESSIONS
DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
DOMESTIC REGULATION
DUMPING
ECONOMIC COOPERATION
ECONOMIC POWER
EXPORT VOLUMES
EXPORTERS
GATS
GLOBAL TRADE
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
LDCS
LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
LITIGATION
LLDCS
NATIONAL TREATMENT
OPEN ECONOMIES
OPENNESS
PROPERTY RIGHTS
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
TRADE BARRIERS
TRADE DATA
TRADE FLOW
TRADE IN SERVICES
TRADE VOLUMES
TRADING PARTNERS
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
URUGUAY ROUND
VOLUME OF TRADE
WORLD TRADE
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
WTO
AGREEMENT ON TRADE
DEFENSE POLICY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/09/2516829/emerging-trends-wto-dispute-settlement-back-gatt
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18113
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Summary:As the number of cases in the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system has increased, there has been a greater effort by the academic community to analyze the data for emerging trends. Holmes Rollo, and Young seek to develop this literature using data up to the end of 2002 to ask whether recent trends confirm previously identified patterns and to examine whether there are divergences from the overall pattern according to the type of dispute. They focus on three questions in particular: What explains which countries are most involved in complaints under the dispute settlement understanding? Is there a discernible pattern to which countries win? Is there a difference to these patterns depending on the type of measure at the heart of the complaint? The authors find that: A country's trade share is a pretty robust indicator of its likelihood to be either a complainant or a respondent. The frequently remarked absence of the least developed countries from the dispute settlement system can be explained by their low volume of trade. There is not much, if any, evidence of a bias against developing countries either as complainants or respondents. Regulatory issues are fading as reasons for disputes and trade defense disputes are the rising issue. Complainants overwhelmingly win (88 percent of cases). There is no strong evidence that the rate of completion of cases is biased against newly industrializing countries or traditional less developed countries.

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