Section 1 “...cut living costs and raise living standards”

• Figures on impact of liberalization in the US — John Veroneau, “Introduction”, and Why Christina R. Sevilla, “Liberalize Trade?”, in Economic Perspectives, January 2007, Volume 12, Number 1, US Department Of State, pages 2 and 4.

• Figures on impact of liberalization in the EU — European Commission, Trade, Growth and World Affairs: Trade Policy as a Core Component of the EU’s 2020 Strategy, November 2010, page 5

• Figures in “Food is cheaper”, “clothes are cheaper” — 10 benefits of the WTO trading system (no longer published)

• Figures in “The same goes for other goods” — Bruce Stokes, “Protectionism and Politics” in Economic Perspectives, January 2007, Volume 12, Number 1, US Department Of State, page 9

• Figures on services — Information and communications technology (ITC) data Measuring the Information Society 2011, International Telecommunications Union, 2011

• Box “points of view” on food security — Olivier de Schutter: Food security hostage to trade in WTO negotiations — UN right to food expert, www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=11608&LangID=E accessed June 2012
  
  — Gawain Kripke, Finding some focus: Trade and food security, the Politics of Poverty, Oxfam America, 6 June 2012.  http://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2012/06/06/finding-some-focus-trade-and-food-security/ (accessed June 2012)
  
  — Pascal Lamy, letter to Olivier de Schutter, 14 December 2011, www.2n2y.com/english/news_e/news11_e/agcom_14dec11_e.htm (accessed June 2012)

 

Section 2 “...settle disputes and reduce trade tensions”

• Boxes on disputes: WTO dispute data, Raúl A Torres, “Use of the WTO Trade Dispute Settlement Mechanism by the Latin American Countries — dispelling myths and breaking down barriers”. WTO Staff Working Paper ERSD-2012-03, February 2012

 

Section 3 “...stimulate economic growth and employment”

• The OECD has charted the impact of imports on the jobless rate in 23 countries; and Chart: “Imports are no longer linked to job losses” — from Douglas Lippoldt (ed), Policy Priorities for International Trade and Jobs, OECD, 2012, page 22 and OECD Economic Outlook database

• Information and communications technology (ITC) development index and employment figures: Measuring the Information Society 2011, International Telecommunications Union, 2011

 

Section 4 “...cut the cost of doing business internationally”

• Trade facilitation figures — Moïsé, E., T. Orliac and P. Minor (2011), “Trade Facilitation Indicators: The Impact on Trade Costs”, OECD Trade Policy Working Papers, No. 118, OECD Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5kg6nk654hmr-en; and Pascal Lamy, “WTO trade facilitation deal to reduce trade costs and boost trade”, speech at the World Customs Organization in Brussels on 24 June 2011, http://www.2n2y.com/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl197_e.htm

• Box “Made in Where?” — Greg Rushford, “Made in America”, Rushford Report, 13 March 2012 http://www.rushfordreport.com/2012/120313—madewhere.htm (requires registration)

 

Section 5 “...encourage good governance”

• Impact of Government Procurement Agreement: “Historic deal reached on government procurement”, 15 December 2012, http://www.2n2y.com/english/news_e/news11_e/gpro_15dec11_e.htm

 

Section 6 “...help countries develop”

• Donor countries have committed an average of US$ 40 billion a year to trade-related development programmes — WTO document WT/COMTD/AFT/W/30, 15 November 2011, www.2n2y.com/aidfortrade

• “Points of view”
  
  — Aurelie Walker, “The WTO has failed developing nations”, The Guardian, Poverty Matters Blog, 14 November 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/nov/14/wto-fails-developing-countries;
  
  — Duncan Green, “Doha round has run its course but new trade realities demand solutions”, The Guardian, Poverty Matters Blog, 4 May 2004, http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/may/04/doha-trade-realities-demand-solutions;
  
  — Kaushik Basu, “Trade and the Third World”, Project Syndicate, 27 March 2002, http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trade-and-the-third-world

 

Section 7 “...give the weak a stronger voice”

• Legal advice —Advisory Centre on WTO Law www.acwl.ch

 

Section 8 “...support the environment and health”

• The Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the WTO — http://www.2n2y.com/english/docs_e/legal_e/04-wto_e.htm.

• Box Public goods v. private goods— George Soros, “Fixing, not Sinking, the WTO”, Project Syndicate, 6 November 2001, http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/fixing—not-sinking—the-wto

 

Section 9 “...contribute to peace and stability”

• Chart, “Before”: Protectionism drained away two-thirds of world trade, 1929–33 — : Charles P Kindleberger, The World in Depression 1929–1939, Allen Lane/Penguin, page 172, citing League of Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, February 1934, page 51. (Total imports of 75 countries, monthly values in terms of old US gold dollars.)

• Chart, “After”: History has not been repeated — www.2n2y.com/statistics

 

Section 10 “...be effective without hitting the headlines”

• 10,000 “notifications” — SPS notifications hit 5 figures and committee wraps up China review, http://www.2n2y.com/english/news_e/news11_e/sps_19oct11_e.htm