Determinants of International Trade Disputes: Evidence from the WTO Regime

Ziaul Abedin and Sumimaru Odano
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Ziaul Abedin: Senior Assistant Secretary, Chief Advisor's Office, Dhaka, Banglade
Sumimaru Odano: Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Shiga University, Japan

Bangladesh Development Studies, 2005, vol. 31, issue 1-2, 57-78

Abstract: Since the inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, one of the most important questions that is constantly being raised and debated over is whether the new dispute settlement protocols covered by the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) are sufficient to provide effective remedies against unfair trade practices. Critical questions such as what determines whether a country will involve into trade disputes or not, or if a country involves into trade disputes then what factors determine its chance of winning or losing the disputes- have always remained in focus. During the last decade, several writers attempted to answer these questions and ventured to assess if there was a bias in the new dispute settlement system of WTO by finding whether the new system was actually providing equal treatment to all the Members or not. The results of their findings were mi

Keywords: Developing countries; Defendants; International disputes; Developed countries; Plaintiffs; Gross domestic product; International trade; Variable coefficients; Tariffs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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