Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57589 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
WTO Staff Working Paper No. ERSD-2012-03
Publisher: 
World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva
Abstract: 
The WTO's Dispute Settlement Mechanism (DSM) has been hailed as a fundamental aspect of the Multilateral Trading System for developing countries. At the same time developing countries face many challenges to ensure their effective participation in the mechanism. This paper presents statistical evidence of how Latin-American countries have been very active in their use of the DSM, especially when their use of the mechanism is compared to their participation in world trade. This paper also analyses why, to a large extent, Latin American countries have overcome the challenges of participating in the DSM; and have done so by coming up with innovative and creative solutions, without deviating from the guidelines established by WTO rules.
Subjects: 
dispute settlement
Latin-America
participation
challenges
litigation
retaliation
consultations
negotiations
panel
JEL: 
F13
F51
F53
K33
K41
K42
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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