World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade Facilitation:Assessing the Level of Ambitionand Likely Impacts
Hamanaka, Shintaro | September 2014
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At the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) held in Bali on 3–6 December 2013, the ministers agreed upon the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (ATF). This paper assesses the level of ambition of the ATF from two angles. First, the use of softening language in each provision is examined. Second, the final agreement is compared against the draft text prepared before the Bali conference. Then, the paper considers the likely legal, economic, capacity building, and reform-inducing impacts of the ATF.
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Hamanaka, Shintaro. 2014. World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade Facilitation:Assessing the Level of Ambitionand Likely Impacts. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1284. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
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Keywords
Trade Facilitation
Trade
Economic integration
Regional Economic Integration
Economic planning
Economic structure
Growth policy
Trade relations
Regional economics
Economic forecasting
Economic development projects
Success in business
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