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The long and winding road: How WTO members finally reached a trade facilitation agreement

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The paper chronicles the negotiating history of the recently concluded Trade Facilitation Accord. Analysing the various stages of the decade-long effort to get the Agreement off the ground, itAnalysing the various stages of the decade-long effort to get the Agreement off the ground, it examines what was at stake in the negotiations, how they evolved and why they finally succeeded - despite many obstacles and detours along the way. The study also suggests ways in which the exercise has broken new ground - for Trade Facilitation rule-making at the global level, for how WTO Members negotiate agreements, and for the world trading system as a whole.

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  • Neufeld, Nora, 2014. "The long and winding road: How WTO members finally reached a trade facilitation agreement," WTO Staff Working Papers ERSD-2014-06, World Trade Organization (WTO), Economic Research and Statistics Division.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:wtowps:ersd201406
    DOI: 10.30875/adc3b358-en
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    1. Bernard Hoekman, 2014. "The Bali Trade Facilitation Agreement and Rulemaking in the WTO: Milestone, Mistake or Mirage?," RSCAS Working Papers 2014/102, European University Institute.
    2. Hillberry, Russell & Zurita, Carlos, 2020. "A Cross-country Assessment of Commitment Behavior in the Trade Facilitation Agreement," Conference papers 333183, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project.
    3. Beverelli, Cosimo & Ticku, Rohit, 2022. "Reducing tariff evasion: The role of trade facilitation," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(2), pages 534-554.
    4. Neufeld, Nora, 2016. "Implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement: From vision to reality," WTO Staff Working Papers ERSD-2016-14, World Trade Organization (WTO), Economic Research and Statistics Division.
    5. Jaime de Melo & Zakaria Sorgho & Laurent Wagner, 2021. "Implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA): estimates of reduction in time at customs for the United Nations’ vulnerable economies," Working Papers hal-03461831, HAL.
    6. Russell Hillberry & Carlos Zurita, 2022. "Commitment behaviour in the World Trade Organization's Trade Facilitation Agreement," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(1), pages 36-75, January.
    7. Kym Anderson, 2016. "Agricultural Trade, Policy Reforms, and Global Food Security," Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-1-137-46925-0, December.
    8. Bernard Hoekman, 2014. "The Bali Trade Facilitation Agreement and Rulemaking in the WTO: Milestone, Mistake or Mirage?," RSCAS Working Papers 2014/102, European University Institute.
    9. Smeets, Maarten, 2021. "Africa's integration in the WTO multilateral trading system: Academic support and the role of WTO Chairs," WTO Staff Working Papers ERSD-2021-9, World Trade Organization (WTO), Economic Research and Statistics Division.

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    WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation; trade facilitation negotiations; negotiating history; multilateral trading system;
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