World Trade Governance and Developing Countries

Kofi Oteng Kufuor is a Research Fellow in the School of Law at The University of East London and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House).

• Acknowledgements viiAbout the Author ixAcronyms xiIntroduction IStructure of the Book 41 The importance of international law and institutions for the world trading system 5Introduction 5The institutional structure of the GATT/WTO system 7The role of international trade institutions 82 Developing countries in the GATT committee system prior to the establishment of the WTO 11Introduction 11The GATT committees on antidumping practice 11GATT textiles and clothing committees 20The Multifibre Arrangement and the TSB 22GATT agricultural committee 24Concluding comments 273 The impact of developments after the Tokyo Round 28The change in DC attitudes towards the GATT 28The reconfiguration of intra-DC relations within the GATT 31Recent developments and their implications for DC participation in the WTO committees 334 Developing countries and the WTO committees since the Uraguay Round 35The 1995 WTO committee on Antidumping Practices 35The Textiles Monitoring body 38The WTO Committee on Agriculture 40The Committee on Trade and Environment 465 Conclusions 55General overview of the study 55Recommendations 56Appendix: Extracts from GATT/WTO documents 60Notes 70Bibliography 96Index 111