This issue of Trade Hot Topics examines the current state of WTO dispute settlement with a focus on repercussions for Commonwealth countries. It begins by outlining the dispute settlement profile of Commonwealth states, then turns briefly to the history of the Appellate Body. It discusses the technicalities of one proposed option to temporarily fill the void left by the Appellate Body's absence, assessing its merits and explaining what it might portend for participating and non-participating members. It concludes with recommendations for the consideration of Commonwealth states as they seek to define and promote their dispute settlement interests in the current WTO environment.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the tourism sectors of small states, including small island developing states, which depend on tourism for up to 90 per cent of their exports. This issue of Trade Hot Topics highlights some of the immediate implications facing small states and explores potential policy responses and strategies to assist small states with a gradual but sustainable reopening and recovery of their tourism sectors.
{"title":"COVID-19 and Tourism","authors":"Kim Kampel","doi":"10.14217/d284a4dd-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14217/d284a4dd-en","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the tourism sectors of small states, including small island developing states, which depend on tourism for up to 90 per cent of their exports. This issue of Trade Hot Topics highlights some of the immediate implications facing small states and explores potential policy responses and strategies to assist small states with a gradual but sustainable reopening and recovery of their tourism sectors.","PeriodicalId":326550,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115481418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This issue of Trade Hot Topics discusses some of the main issues that countries need to consider while negotiating trade in services, and interpreting commitments on trade in services, in view of rapid technological evolution.
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This issue of Trade Hot Topics presents a brief primer on the key issues relating to investment and investment facilitation that WTO members need to consider, whether or not they are a part of the informal group discussions on investment facilitation.
{"title":"Investment Facilitation and the WTO","authors":"R. Anuradha","doi":"10.14217/4e0287f8-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14217/4e0287f8-en","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of Trade Hot Topics presents a brief primer on the key issues relating to investment and investment facilitation that WTO members need to consider, whether or not they are a part of the informal group discussions on investment facilitation.","PeriodicalId":326550,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128091291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This Trade Hot Topic explores the possibility of incorporating gender issues into multilateral trade negotiations at the WTO, as well as discussing the likely implications for least developed countries (LDCs), small, vulnerable economies (SVEs) and sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. It also suggests that LDCs, SVEs and SSA countries conduct ex-ante assessments, which will provide them with a clear way forward in relation to fashioning appropriate responses and meaningfully participating in trade and gender activities at the WTO as and when they arise.
{"title":"Women's Economic Empowerment and WTO Trade Negotiations","authors":"Collin Zhuawu","doi":"10.14217/8136ff7d-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14217/8136ff7d-en","url":null,"abstract":"This Trade Hot Topic explores the possibility of incorporating gender issues into multilateral trade negotiations at the WTO, as well as discussing the likely implications for least developed countries (LDCs), small, vulnerable economies (SVEs) and sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. It also suggests that LDCs, SVEs and SSA countries conduct ex-ante assessments, which will provide them with a clear way forward in relation to fashioning appropriate responses and meaningfully participating in trade and gender activities at the WTO as and when they arise.","PeriodicalId":326550,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129097591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This Trade Hot Topic provides information on a recent Kickstarter assignment on the Transition from Least Developed Country Status, funded by the UK Government.
{"title":"Transitioning from Least Developed Country Status","authors":"J. Keane, H. Haughton","doi":"10.14217/D83C052E-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14217/D83C052E-EN","url":null,"abstract":"This Trade Hot Topic provides information on a recent Kickstarter assignment on the Transition from Least Developed Country Status, funded by the UK Government.","PeriodicalId":326550,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114862130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This issue of the Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics provides a brief overview of blockchain technologies, seeking to separate the hype from the reality for Commonwealth member countries and clarify the risks and opportunities to consider when making decisions over trade and development policies and attendant infrastructure investments.
{"title":"Blockchain - A New Opportunity for Strengthening Trade in the Commonwealth","authors":"J. Macgregor","doi":"10.14217/A751AA21-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14217/A751AA21-EN","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of the Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics provides a brief overview of blockchain technologies, seeking to separate the hype from the reality for Commonwealth member countries and clarify the risks and opportunities to consider when making decisions over trade and development policies and attendant infrastructure investments.","PeriodicalId":326550,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126219118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This issue of Trade Hot Topic seeks to examine the available data on services trade and policies for the Pacific countries, and to formulate actionable recommendations for how the situation on the ground can be improved.
{"title":"Trade in Services in the Pacific","authors":"R. Kumar, Ben Shepherd","doi":"10.14217/B74DF931-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14217/B74DF931-EN","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of Trade Hot Topic seeks to examine the available data on services trade and policies for the Pacific countries, and to formulate actionable recommendations for how the situation on the ground can be improved.","PeriodicalId":326550,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129752042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics provides an overview of how natural disasters can exacerbate the trade and development challenges of LDCs. In the aftermath of Tropical Cyclones Idai and Kenneth, the focus is on Mozambique, a coastal LDC, and Malawi, a landlocked LDC surrounded by two other LDCs: Zambia to the west and Mozambique to the east.
{"title":"Natural Disasters, Trade and LDCs","authors":"Brendan Vickers, Hilary Enos-Edu","doi":"10.14217/c5b9750a-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14217/c5b9750a-en","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics provides an overview of how natural disasters can exacerbate the trade and development challenges of LDCs. In the aftermath of Tropical Cyclones Idai and Kenneth, the focus is on Mozambique, a coastal LDC, and Malawi, a landlocked LDC surrounded by two other LDCs: Zambia to the west and Mozambique to the east.","PeriodicalId":326550,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128077476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics focuses on priorities for Commonwealth co-ordination of regulations and business support for creative industries in the digital economy as a strategy for mitigating the impact of the digital divide on small states.
{"title":"Creative Industries in the Digital Economy","authors":"N. Rochester","doi":"10.14217/dbcc1cf2-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14217/dbcc1cf2-en","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics focuses on priorities for Commonwealth co-ordination of regulations and business support for creative industries in the digital economy as a strategy for mitigating the impact of the digital divide on small states.","PeriodicalId":326550,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130389629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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