The recent WTO cotton ruling has led to a paradoxical result for the United States, a result that seems a textbook … illustration of the "law of unintended consequences". Indeed, during the Uruguay Round negotiations of the present WTO agreements …

NAFTA and WTO agreements as well as being the subject of numerous multilateral environmental treaties and agreements …. Despite its inclusion, many members are opposed to allowing the environment an extensive role in the WTO. Nonetheless, the … environmental implications, and the inclusion of agriculture in the WTO introduces complex issues that also have environmental …

The WTO Doha Round of trade negotiations was launched in 2001 and after twelve years of negotiations members seem … unable to bring it to a successful conclusion. An attempt to deliver an ‘early harvest’ of deliverables at the 9th WTO …

represents an attempt to tailor the concept of multifunctional agriculture to market-oriented WTO trade regime. The economics … approach has been fundamentally troubled by the lack of concord among WTO member countries on the question of what constitutes …

The main aim of the article was a presentation of interdependences in the agricultural policy between the WTO and the … agricultural trade and the new directions of WTO activities, the volatility of agricultural commodity prices in the world market … and the endeavours to weaken it made outside the WTO as well as the new developments in the Common Agricultural Policy …