The WTO Negotiations on Industrial Tariffs: What is at stake for developing countries? Yilmaz Akyuz

This paper focuses on the implications of the negotiations on industrial tariffs for longer term industrialization in developing countries. Apart from detailed overviews, the paper advances a simple alternative formula that can help reconcile policy flexibility with multilateral discipline.  It also provides key points on how the negotiations could accommodate both the immediate needs and longer-term interests of developing countries.

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