Principles of the trading system · Trade without discrimination · Freer trade: gradually, through negotiation · Predictability: through binding and transparency.

1. Transparency · 2. Openness · 3. Impartiality and Consensus · 4. Effectiveness and Relevance · 5. Coherence · 6. Development Dimension.

WTO agreements. The WTO agreements cover goods, services and intellectual property. They spell out the principles of trade opening and the permitted exceptions.

The WTO core principles of non-discrimination, transparency and due process can help in ensuring that national competition laws promote competition ...

Transparency, openness, impartiality, consensus, efficiency, relevance and consistency are key elements for the development of standards, no matter if on a ...

This principle of “national treatment” (giving others the same treatment as one's own nationals) is also found in all the three main WTO agreements (Article 3 ...

Some General Principles The GATT provides for a number of basic principles. Non-discrimination; The principle of national treatment requires that goods, once ...

Principles: equitable, fast, effective, mutually acceptable. Disputes in the WTO are essentially about broken promises. WTO members have agreed that if they ...

The WTO's founding and guiding principles remain the pursuit of open borders, the guarantee of most-favoured-nation principle and non-discriminatory treatment ...