The World Trade Organisation: From Dithering to Withering?

The 1st of January 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the entry into force of the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Back in 1948 the GATT had just 23 signatories and was focussed mainly on reducing tariff barriers to trade in goods. In the intervening period the GATT and its successor, the World Trade Organisation (WTO), became the pivot around which an increasingly elaborate regime for the governance of global trade revolved....