Free trade (not agreements) will make Britain great
To judge from most of the “progressive” press and my Twitter feed, there is a great deal of ruin in Brexit. I hear that Britain is so integrated into the E...
Tag: fta
Eminent call-girls
Aaargh! Yet another knee-jerk call in the Financial Times for “wise” men (and women) to guide WTO out of it’s slough. Third, in lieu of the WTO ministeri...
Competition policy in PTAs
Here’s a surprise…or is it? According to the WTO’s 2011 annual report, the most common WTO-extension (WTO‑X) provision of preferential trade agreement...
WTO embraces the irresistible
WTO’s annual World Trade Report for 2011 signals a turning-point for the soon-to-be-Doha-less Organization. It attempts to provide a rationale for aban...
Sounds good, but…
The current Labor government, unlike the Hawke governments, seems bent on announcing major public policies as faits accomplis and consulting on the r...
Sutherland report on the Future of WTO
WTO has published a report commissioned for its tenth anniversary from a group of ‘wise men’—chaired by former Director-General Peter Sutherland and in...