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New Database: WTO iLibrary
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.
Every year WTO publishes around 70 new titles on trade issues which are converted into digital format. WTO iLibrary is the comprehensive global search, discovery and dissemination platform for digital content created by WTO. As of February 2020, the WTO iLibrary contains 1,685 ebook titles, 11,500 chapters, 245 working papers and 3 databases. It offers a wide range of knowledge to researchers, librarians, lawyers, trade specialists, and policy makers with a single digital destination for accessing publications, dispute settlement reports, trade data and working papers.
The following topics are covered:
Agriculture and food safety | Market access |
Anti-dumping, subsidies, safeguards | Regional trade agreements |
Development and building trade capacity | Services |
Dispute settlement | Technical barriers to trade |
Economic research and trade policy analysis |
Trade facilitation and customs valuation |
Environment | Trade finance |
Government procurement | Trade monitoring |
Information technology and e-commerce | WTO accessions |
Intellectual property |