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Technical Barriers to Trade Notifications and Dispute Settlement of the WTO

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  • Mohammad Mahdi Ghodsi

    (Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw; Department of Economic Sciences of Catholic University of Milan)

  • Jan J. Michałek

    (Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to verify to which extent and in which circumstances the TBT notifications can serve as a system of early warning for future disputes in the areas of TBTs. During 1995-2011 there have been 45 requests for consultations under the Dispute Settlement (DS) Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in order to identify the violations in technical barriers to trade (TBT) agreement. The DS Body decisions regarding violations of TBT agreement are discussed in this paper. The WTO members, in order to increase transparency of trade policy, made efforts to compile data on notified TBTs. WTO provides a TBT dataset that covers Specific Trade Concerns (STC) raised by its members. This paper attempts to find the linkages between DS cases citing TBT agreement and the STC data. We analyze descriptively and econometrically, the relationship between raising TBT STCs and DS cases on TBT.

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  • Mohammad Mahdi Ghodsi & Jan J. Michałek, 2014. "Technical Barriers to Trade Notifications and Dispute Settlement of the WTO," Working Papers 2014-22, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw.
    • Handle: RePEc:war:wpaper:2014-22
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    trade policy; technical barriers to trade; WTO; dispute settlement;
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    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F53 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations

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