Is the settlement of trade disputes under Regional Trade Agreements undermining the WTO dispute settlement mechanism and the integrity of the world trading system? / Zoom In
The primacy of the WTO dispute settlement system
1. Introduction The world trading system has seen a proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) since the early 1990s. Many of the RTAs negotiated in the recent times are equipped with a sophisticated dispute settlement mechanism (DSMs) clause. There is a belief that these RTA-DSMs have the potential of interfering with the integrity of the...
