WTO-Minus Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements

Alexey Oskarovich Yamalutdinov and Daria Andreevna Zavershinskaja
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Alexey Oskarovich Yamalutdinov: Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Moscow, Russia
Daria Andreevna Zavershinskaja: High School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Russian Foreign Economic Journal, 2022, issue 10, 121-132

Abstract: This article analyzes the WTO-minus provisions in regional trade agreements (RTAs), their origin and compatibility with the WTO Agreements. Different points of view in relation to the purpose of the WTO-minus provisions and international practice of their application are examined. The classification of the WTO-minus provisions and the ways of their identification in the text of regional trade agreements are discussed. The categories of services for which the WTO-minus provisions in RTAs are most frequently used are highlighted.

Keywords: RTA; WTO; WTO-minus provisions; DSB WTO; the WTO Appellate Body; GATS; GATT; OECD; schedule of specifi c commitments; negative approach to the scheduling of specific commitments; multilateral trading system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.24412/2072-8042-2022-10-121-132

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