By 10 December 2019, the number of judges (or Appellate Body members) serving on the Appellate Body – the final appeal court of the World Trade Organization (WTO) – had dwindled to just one, well short of the full complement of seven envisaged under…
Messages Clés : 1. La réduction tarifaire suite à la libéralisation commerciale diminue les prix locaux en Tunisie de seulement 10%. 2. La raison principale est le manque de compétitivité dû à la forte concentration de pouvoir de marché aux mains de…
The 2015 joint report emphasized that the greatest impact on poverty reduction will come from a coherent and multi-pronged approach that addresses these specific constraints. To this end, the report discussed policy actions that governments can take…
This chapter evaluates the extent to which changes in tariffs and in international prices were transmitted into consumer prices in Tunisia over the period 2000– 2008. A pass-through equation is estimated using sectoral panel data at the retail…
While recent technological advances have allowed an increase in digital trade, this growth has occurred with a lack of clear and defined rules. This deficiency has become an issue for Latin American countries. With the multilateral trade regime…
The experience to date in the WTO suggests that the plurilingual nature of the WTO Agreements does not make treaty interpretation significantly more difficult than it would be with a text authentic in one language only. The terms of a plurilingual…
This chapter highlights the linkages between the climate crisis and trade negotiations in a dystopic post-WTO world. It argues that the window of opportunity to achieve an effective multilateral trade regime has closed and will be sealed shut by…
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In the past few months, we have witnessed the “worst deal” in the…
TRADE-SA-Tunisia export opportunities project- Report back on 1st workshop.
With South Africa and Tunisia being located at opposite ends of the African continent and their main export markets being in Europe and other major trading regions, one…
Trade openness remains one of the key drivers of exchange rate fluctuations in both the long-run and short-run. The relationship between trade openness and exchange rate has long been explained in many theoretical and empirical studies. Nevertheless…