News from the Institute for International Trade

How can LDCs ensure they continue to benefit from special and differential treatment in the WTO?

Mike Humphrey - Senior Trade Advisor IIT - As most international-trade observers are aware, debate is currently raging about the World Trade Organization’s relevance and role, its need for organisational reform, and the lack of progress in the Doha Round. Special and differential treatment (S&DT) provisions are an important component of this wider debate, and particularly the question of which countries should benefit from them - an issue intimately tied to the matter of self-designation.

[Read more about How can LDCs ensure they continue to benefit from special and differential treatment in the WTO?]