Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation

Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Dispute settlement between developing countries: Argentina and Chilean price bands; 2. Argentina and GATS: a study on the domestic determinants of GATS commitments; 3. Rock'n'roll in Bangladesh: protecting intellectual property rights in music; 4. Barbados: telecommunications liberalisation; 5. Services commitments: case studies from Belize and Costa Rica; 6. Inter-agency policy coordination in Botswana; 7. Brazil and the G-20 group of developing countries; 8. Cambodia's accession to WTO: 'fast tracked' accession by a least developed economy; 9. Canada and the WTO: multilevel governance, public policy-making and the WTO auto pact case; 10. SPS and crisis management: the Chile-EU avian influenza experience; 11. Shanghai's World Trade Organization (WTO) Affairs Consultation Center: working together to take advantage of WTO membership; 12. Costa Rica's challenge to US restrictions on the import of underwear; 13. Fiji: preparing for the end of preferences?; 14. The road to Cancun: the French decision-making process on WTO negotiations; 15. Decision-making processes in India: the case of the agriculture negotiations; 16. Protecting the geographical indication for Darjeeling tea; 17. The Indian shrimp industry organizes to fight the threat of anti-dumping action; 18. Indonesia's shrimp exports: meeting the challenge of quality standards; 19. Patents, parallel importation and compulsory licensing of HIV/AIDS drugs: experience from Kenya; 20. Kenya's participation in the WTO: lessons learned; 21. Learning by doing: the impact of a trade remedy case in Korea; 22. Laos: the textile and garment industry in the post-ATC era; 23. Malawi in the multilateral trading system; 24. Malaysia: labelling regulations on natural rubber condoms and the WTO TBT agreement; 25. Malaysia: strategies for the liberalisation of the services sector; 26. Mauritius: cooperation in an economy evolving for the future; 27. How regional economic

Peter Gallagher is Principal of Inquit Communications. Patrick Low is Director of Economic Research and Statistics, WTO Secretariat and a member of the Editorial Board of the World Trade Review. Andrew L. Stoler is Executive Director of the Institute for International Business, Economics and Law at the University of Adelaide.

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