The long and winding road: How WTO members finally reached a trade facilitation agreement

Nora Neufeld

No ERSD-2014-06, WTO Staff Working Papers from World Trade Organization (WTO), Economic Research and Statistics Division

Abstract: The paper chronicles the negotiating history of the recently concluded Trade Facilitation Accord. Analysing the various stages of the decade-long effort to get the Agreement off the ground, itAnalysing the various stages of the decade-long effort to get the Agreement off the ground, it examines what was at stake in the negotiations, how they evolved and why they finally succeeded - despite many obstacles and detours along the way. The study also suggests ways in which the exercise has broken new ground - for Trade Facilitation rule-making at the global level, for how WTO Members negotiate agreements, and for the world trading system as a whole.

Keywords: WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation; trade facilitation negotiations; negotiating history; multilateral trading system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.30875/adc3b358-en

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