Negotiating at the World Trade Organization

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rege, Vinod, Author.

Contributor:

World Trade Organization, Contributor.

World Trade Organization, Content Provider.

Series:

Lessons from the Commonwealth

Lessons from the Commonwealth Negotiating at the World Trade Organization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign trade regulation.

Negotiation.

World Trade Organization--Rules and practice.

World Trade Organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Commonwealth Secretariat 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Negotiating at the World Trade Organization provides a unique insider's guide to the issues that have concerned developing country negotiators at that body since its establishment in 1995. Published in the Lessons from the Commonwealth series, it highlights the continuing issues that all delegations are grappling with, from a developing country perspective. It will be invaluable to those arriving in Geneva who need to brief themselves on the continuing story of the WTO negotiations, and those in national capitals in daily touch with their negotiating teams. The author, Vinod Rege, is a former Director at GATT, and was engaged as a consultant to Commonwealth developing countries at the WTO over a ten year period until 2008.

Contents:

Cover

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations

Summary and Author's Concluding Observations

Part One: The WTO rules-based system and the Commonwealth Project

1. What is the WTO and What Does It Do?

2. The Project and the Modalities Adopted

Part Two: Assistance provided on subjects in the agenda of the Doha Round

3. The Doha Round of Negotiations

4. Liberalisation of Trade in Agricultural Products

5. Agricultural Commodity Issues

6. Liberalisation of Trade in Non-agricultural Products

7. Liberalisation of Trade in Services

8. The Role of Industrial Policy in Attaining the Development Objectives of the Doha Round

9. Agreement on TRIPS and Public Health

10. Trade Facilitation

Annex: Examples of customs fees and charges levied by selected developing countries

Part Three: Assistance provided to individual delegations and in the pre-Doha period

11. Assistance Provided to Individual Delegations

12. Main Features of the Assistance Provided in the Pre-Doha Period (1997-2001)

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-43881-X

9786613438812

1-84859-071-7

OCLC:

775861848