The WTO and Accession Countries

关键的视角对全球Trading System and the WTO series

Edited by Carlos A. Primo Braga, Associate Professor, Fundação Dom Cabra, Brazil, Visiting Professor, IMD Business School, Switzerland and Olivier Cattaneo, Senior Trade Specialist, The World Bank, US

In this essential two-volume collection, the editors include key papers on the domestic and global challenges of WTO accession. The first volume explores the intertwined economic, legal, and political dimensions of the process. The second volume explores country case studies and sector-specific issues such as agriculture, services and intellectual property.

‘Accession to the WTO is a complex, long and unique process. Carlos Primo Braga and Olivier Cattaneo have assembled an impressive collection of literature that analyzes accessions from an economic, legal, political and sectoral perspective, as well as some country-case studies. This is the state-of-the-art of what we know about accessions. The editors bring it all together in the introduction, posing the right and difficult questions and making critical observations. This publication is a must to both understand and improve these negotiations that currently involve the Members of the WTO with 29 acceding candidates.’
– Alejandro Jara, Deputy Director General, The World Trade Organization, Switzerland