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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okr-10986-181132021-04-23T14:03:41Z Emerging Trends in WTO Dispute Settlement : Back to the GATT? Holmes, Peter Rollo, Jim Young, Alasdair R. 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 REGRESSION ANALYSIS 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 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. 2014-04-30T19:03:26Z 2014-04-30T19:03:26Z 2003-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/09/2516829/emerging-trends-wto-dispute-settlement-back-gatt http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18113 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 3133 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |
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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 REGRESSION ANALYSIS 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 |
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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 REGRESSION ANALYSIS 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 Holmes, Peter Rollo, Jim Young, Alasdair R. Emerging Trends in WTO Dispute Settlement : Back to the GATT? |
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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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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Holmes, Peter Rollo, Jim Young, Alasdair R. |
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Holmes, Peter Rollo, Jim Young, Alasdair R. |
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Holmes, Peter |
| title |
Emerging Trends in WTO Dispute Settlement : Back to the GATT? |
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Emerging Trends in WTO Dispute Settlement : Back to the GATT? |
| title_full |
Emerging Trends in WTO Dispute Settlement : Back to the GATT? |
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Emerging Trends in WTO Dispute Settlement : Back to the GATT? |
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Emerging Trends in WTO Dispute Settlement : Back to the GATT? |
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emerging trends in wto dispute settlement : back to the gatt? |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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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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