MFN clubs and scheduling additional commitments in the GATT : learning from the GATS

HOEKMAN, Bernard M.; MAVROIDIS, Petros C.

MFN clubs and scheduling additional commitments in the GATT : learning from the GATS

dc.contributor.author	HOEKMAN, Bernard M.
dc.contributor.author	MAVROIDIS, Petros C.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-01-25T14:08:30Z
dc.date.available	2016-01-25T14:08:30Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	Scheduling additional commitments for policies affecting trade in goods in the GATT has been plagued by two sources of ambiguity: the treatment of changes introduced unilaterally by members subsequent to an initial commitment, and the treatment of new commitments by WTO members pertaining to nontariff policy measures affecting trade in goods. This is not the case for trade in services, as the GATS makes explicit provision for additional commitments to be scheduled. Neither secondary law, in the form of decisions formally adopted by the WTO membership, nor case law has clarified the situation for trade in goods. This matter is important for the WTO as it determines the feasibility of clubs of countries agreeing to new enforceable policy disciplines that bind only signatories but are applied on a non-discriminatory basis to all WTO members. In this paper, we discuss the legal state of play and the 'policy space' that WTO members have to establish new MFN club-based disciplines for nontariff measures.	en
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dc.identifier.issn	1028-3625
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/38665
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dc.relation.ispartofseries	EUI RSCAS	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	2016/06	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Global Governance Programme-211	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Global Economics	en
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dc.subject	Trade agreements	en
dc.subject	Plurilaterals	en
dc.subject	WTO	en
dc.subject	Clubs	en
dc.subject	Nontariff measures	en
dc.subject	F13	en
dc.subject	K40	en
dc.subject.other	Trade, investment and international cooperation
dc.title	MFN clubs and scheduling additional commitments in the GATT : learning from the GATS	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
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