WTO : the Doha Agenda : the new negotiations on world trade

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WTO : the Doha Agenda : the new negotiations on world trade

Bhagirath Lal Das

Zed Books , Third World Network (TWN), c2003

  • : Zed, hbk
  • : Zed, pbk
  • : TWN

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: Zed, hbk ISBN 9781842772980

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Following the Doha Ministerial Declaration in November 2001, the developed countries catapulted the WTO into an intensive, three-year round of further international trade negotiations. In this concise guide to the issues involved, B L Das, one of the world's leading authorities on the WTO, explains the new Work Programme which guides these negotiations. Far from constituting a 'development agenda' as the North touted it to be, he argues that issues of great importance to developing countries like textiles and balance of payments do not even figure in the Work Programme. Instead, it gives special attention to those areas which are of interest to the major developed countries, thereby further increasing the imbalance in the WTO system between North and South. Indeed the Work Programme looks set to benefit these countries who have given nothing in return to the developing countries. The author explains and assesses the implications of each issue likely to figure in the new negotiations. These include not simply the major items that were the subject of the Uruguay Round - agriculture, services, subsidies, anti-dumping, regional trade arrangements, dispute settlement, industrial tariffs, intellectual property rights ; but also new areas (the so-called Singapore issues) like investment, competition policy, transparency in government procurement and trade facilitation as well as electronic commerce. He makes concrete policy proposals for the revision of the existing WTO Agreements in order to remedy their manifest defects from the point of view of protecting and improving the development prospects of those poor countries who are already so disadvantaged in the global economy.

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Preface 1. The New Work Programme of the WTO Introduction Implementation Issues Agriculture Services Market Access for Non-Agricultural Productions TRIPS Relationship between Trade and Investment Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy Transparency in Governmental Procurement Trade Facilitation WTO Rules and Dispute Settlement Trade and Environment Electronic Commerce Trade, Debt and Finance Trade and Transfer of Technology 2. Some Suggestions for Improvements in the WTO Agreements Introduction Dispute Settlement Understanding Agreement on Agriculture General Agreement on Trade in Services Agreement on TRIMS (Trade-related Investment Measures) Agreement on TRIPS (Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing Understanding on Balance of Payment Provisions Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement on Anti-Dumping Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement on Rules of Origin Annex: The WTO Doha Ministerial Declaration, adopted 14 November 2001
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: Zed, pbk ISBN 9781842772997

内容説明

Following the Doha Ministerial Declaration in November 2001, the developed countries catapulted the WTO into an intensive, three-year round of further international trade negotiations. In this concise guide to the issues involved, B L Das, one of the world‘s leading authorities on the WTO, explains the new Work Programme which guides these negotiations. Far from constituting a ‘development agenda‘ as the North touted it to be, he argues that issues of great importance to developing countries like textiles and balance of payments do not even figure in the Work Programme. Instead, it gives special attention to those areas which are of interest to the major developed countries, thereby further increasing the imbalance in the WTO system between North and South. Indeed the Work Programme looks set to benefit these countries who have given nothing in return to the developing countries. The author explains and assesses the implications of each issue likely to figure in the new negotiations. These include not simply the major items that were the subject of the Uruguay Round - agriculture, services, subsidies, anti-dumping, regional trade arrangements, dispute settlement, industrial tariffs, intellectual property rights ; but also new areas (the so-called Singapore issues) like investment, competition policy, transparency in government procurement and trade facilitation as well as electronic commerce. He makes concrete policy proposals for the revision of the existing WTO Agreements in order to remedy their manifest defects from the point of view of protecting and improving the development prospects of those poor countries who are already so disadvantaged in the global economy.

目次

Preface 1. The New Work Programme of the WTO Introduction Implementation Issues Agriculture Services Market Access for Non-Agricultural Productions TRIPS Relationship between Trade and Investment Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy Transparency in Governmental Procurement Trade Facilitation WTO Rules and Dispute Settlement Trade and Environment Electronic Commerce Trade, Debt and Finance Trade and Transfer of Technology 2. Some Suggestions for Improvements in the WTO Agreements Introduction Dispute Settlement Understanding Agreement on Agriculture General Agreement on Trade in Services Agreement on TRIMS (Trade-related Investment Measures) Agreement on TRIPS (Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing Understanding on Balance of Payment Provisions Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement on Anti-Dumping Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement on Rules of Origin Annex: The WTO Doha Ministerial Declaration, adopted 14 November 2001

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