Date: 2023
Type: Article
Geopolitical competition, globalisation and WTO reform
The world economy, 2023, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 1163-1188
HOEKMAN, Bernard M., MAVROIDIS, Petros C., NELSON, Douglas, Geopolitical competition, globalisation and WTO reform, The world economy, 2023, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 1163-1188
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75906
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This paper discusses options to manage spillovers of unilateral trade policies motivated by national security and other non-economic objectives on global trade and investment. Within the WTO framework, we argue a ‘specific trade concern’ mechanism is likely to be more effective than dispute settlement to address national security-motivated trade intervention. More broadly, we propose creation of a platform for governments, supported by relevant international organisations, to enhance transparency and assess the effectiveness and magnitude of the spillover effects of trade/related policies of systemic import. This would serve to help identify efficient instruments to achieve economic and non-economic goals and inform WTO reform discussions on subsidies and discriminatory trade policies. Plurilateral cooperation among like-minded nations offers a pragmatic pathway to address spillover effects of policies to achieve security and other non-economic objectives but requires a stronger governance framework to ensure consistency with an open multilateral trading system.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75906
Full-text via DOI: 10.1111/twec.13406; 1879-2006
ISSN: 0922-1425
Publisher: Wiley
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