Revitalizing the World Trading System

International Law

Revitalizing the World Trading System

By Alan Wm. Wolff
Cambridge University Press July 2023

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ISBN-13
9781009289320
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
July 2023
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In recent years, the world trading system has been confronted by a range of new and developing challenges: the risk of climate change, the instability of the digital economy, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 and the threat of future pandemics, to name but a few. In this book, veteran trade negotiator, Ambassador Alan Wm. Wolff, draws from his years of experience at the World Trade Organization to consider the history of trade, the current trading system and how it should be reformed in the future. Offering a rare insight into the inner workings of the WTO, Wolff is uniquely placed to identify deficiencies in the current system and suggest actionable solutions. This essential guidebook to the WTO equips readers with the tools and knowledge required to tackle to emerging and emergent challenges of a global trading system.

Table of Contents

Introduction: saving the world trading system
Part I. Why Trade?
1. The origins of trade
Part II. The Multilateral Trading System:
2. The founding of the multilateral trading system
3. Core elements of the world trading system
4. Twenty values of the multilateral trading system
5. A brief history of the WTO as told to us by its ministerial conferences
Part III. The Regular Operations of the WTO:
6. A week at the WTO
Part IV. Major Substantive Topics:
7. Dispute settlement at the WTO
8. Agriculture
9. Services
10. E-Commerce
11. Development at the WTO
Part V. World Trade Governance and Systemic Reform:
12. The problem of governance of the multilateral trading system
13. The need for WTO reform
14. WTO 2025: WTO Reform
Part VI. Conclusion:
15. Conclusion – The future of the WTO

Afterword. The art and science of negotiation
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