The Future of the Multilateral Trading System: East Asian Perspectives

This book is the product of collaboration between academic and non-academic experts; a group of scholars - mostly Japanese but including some foreign scholars - specialized in law, politics, and economics have been joined by practitioners who have been engaged in negotiations and other work at or for the WTO to discuss the nature and structure of the WTO in due consideration of various circumstances surrounding the WTO. Prior to the completion of this book, relevant seminars and international symposiums were held in several occasions. Such a comprehensive set of works of researchers of Japan, a country that takes proud in its unparalleled strong commitment to the WTO, has been rarely published in English before. It is hoped that analysis and considerations on the meaning and significance of the WTO provided in this book will make some contribution to international study on the WTO and trade policies.