Trade Flows and Trade Disputes

doi:10.1007/s11558-014-9208-2

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Trade Flows and Trade Disputes

dc.contributor.author	Reynolds, Kara M.
dc.contributor.author	Bown, Chad P.
dc.date.accessioned	2014-11-18T19:54:55Z
dc.date.available	2014-11-18T19:54:55Z
dc.date.issued	2014-11-09
dc.description.abstract	This paper introduces a new data set and establishes a set of basic facts and patterns regarding the ‘trade’ that countries fight about under WTO dispute settlement. It characterizes the scope of products, as well as the levels of and changes to the trade values, market shares, volumes, and prices for those goods that eventually become subject to WTO litigation. The first result is striking heterogeneity in the level of market access at stake across disputes: e.g., 14% of cases over disputed import products feature bilateral trade that is less than $1 million per year, and another 15% feature bilateral trade that is more than $1 billion per year. Nevertheless, some strong patterns emerge from a more detailed examination of the data. Both high- and low-income complainants tend to suffer important losses in foreign market access in the products that ultimately become subject to dispute. Furthermore, while the respondent’s imposition of an allegedly WTO-inconsistent policy is associated with reductions, on average, to trade values, volumes and exporter-received prices, there is some evidence of differences in the size of these changes across both the different types of policies under dispute and the potential exporter country litigants. Finally, these different types of policies under dispute can have dissimilar trade effects for the complainant relative to other (non-complainant) exporters of the disputed product, and this is likely to affect the litigation allegiance of third countries.	en
dc.identifier.citation	The Review of International Organizations
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/20539
dc.identifier.issn	1559-744X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/20539
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	dispute settlement
dc.subject	WTO
dc.subject	trade agreements
dc.title	Trade Flows and Trade Disputes	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2015-11-09
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:36:02.547500Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Publication
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.globalpractice	Trade and Competitiveness
okr.identifier.doi	10.1007/s11558-014-9208-2
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.relation.associatedurl	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11558-014-9208-2
okr.relation.associatedurl	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/19343
okr.topic	International Economics and Trade::International Trade and Trade Rules
okr.topic	International Economics and Trade::World Trade Organization
okr.unit	Trade and International Integration Team, Development Research Group (DECTI)
okr.volume	(November 2014)
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