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| Author: | Olivares, G. |
| Title: | The Case for Giving Effectiveness to GATT/WTO Rules on Developing Countries and LDCs |
| Journal: | Journal of World Trade
2001 : JUN, VOL. 35:3, p. 545-552 |
| Index terms: | WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION GATT CASE STUDIES TRADE TRADE AGREEMENTS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The set GATT/WTO legal provisions purported to confer benefits to developing countries and LDCs contains a "birth defect": they are, on the whole, a set of "soft law" rules. This article argues that maintaining the current trend of "soft law" status for GATT/ WTO provisions on "less- developed countries" is primafade procedurally discriminatory,3 since they disqualify developing countries and LDCs from resorting, effectively, to the WTO dispute settlement system. Instead, they put them, from the outset, in a disadvantaged position inside the system, thereby nullifying almost all the potential benefits accruing to from preferential and non-reciprocal trade arrangements. |
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