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The WTO Government Procurement Agreement: the most favoured nation principle, the GATS and regionalism
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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:08 authored by Kamala DawarThis article is concerned with the nature and application of the most-favoured-nation (MFN) principle under the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) plurilateral Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA). After establishing the context of the WTO GPA, the paper first assesses how the MFN principle operates among the parties of the WTO GPA, pursuant to Article IV. It then considers the relationship between the WTO GPA and the WTO GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) Article II MFN principle.The paper lastly examines the WTO GPA parties’ market-access commitments for the procurement of goods, services and construction services in regional trade agreements (RTAs),1 with reference to the scope of the MFN principle operating under Article IV of the WTO GPA.The overall analysis identifies a correspondence between theWTO GPA and the GATS schedules and MFN requirements.The article concludes that this systemic correspondence has the potential to operate against the wider objectives of multilateralism under both the WTO and the WTO GPA itself.
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Legal Issues of Economic IntegrationISSN
1566-6573Publisher
Kluwer Law InternationalIssue
3Volume
42Page range
257-280Department affiliated with
- Law Publications
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- Yes
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2016-01-26Usage metrics
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