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What would be the main consequences for a country leaving the WTO?
The Next CEO of Stack OverflowDoes the WTO itself have any input into trade agreements?Can schedules be bilaterally agreed in the WTO forum?What's Trump frustration with the WTO?Leaving the EU without a deal and MFN rulesHave any prominent Brexiteers argued for the UK to become a duty-free country (like Singapore)?Does the WTO have a concept of “default” or standard tariffs?No-deal Brexit: What would be the basis for a WTO complaint if goods entering Ireland are checked at Dunkirk?Can the UK deal selectively with Ireland post-Brexit without falling afoul of WTO rules?
Trump threatened to leave the WTO a while back. (This might be understated, but I won't search how many times he may have said that.)
What I want to ask is: what would be the consequences for a country, big or small, if it just left the WTO? I assume (economic) size might make a difference in outcomes, although I could be wrong on this.
As far as I know there aren't any concrete example of countries who left, but if I'm somehow wrong on this (too), then we could have a concrete example of the consequences. If not, then perhaps we'd have to rely on some published analyses of such WTO-exit scenarios for an answer.
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Trump threatened to leave the WTO a while back. (This might be understated, but I won't search how many times he may have said that.)
What I want to ask is: what would be the consequences for a country, big or small, if it just left the WTO? I assume (economic) size might make a difference in outcomes, although I could be wrong on this.
As far as I know there aren't any concrete example of countries who left, but if I'm somehow wrong on this (too), then we could have a concrete example of the consequences. If not, then perhaps we'd have to rely on some published analyses of such WTO-exit scenarios for an answer.
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@JJJ: I don't know. Is there an economic shock effect for leaving, for instance? It's part of the question.
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Trump threatened to leave the WTO a while back. (This might be understated, but I won't search how many times he may have said that.)
What I want to ask is: what would be the consequences for a country, big or small, if it just left the WTO? I assume (economic) size might make a difference in outcomes, although I could be wrong on this.
As far as I know there aren't any concrete example of countries who left, but if I'm somehow wrong on this (too), then we could have a concrete example of the consequences. If not, then perhaps we'd have to rely on some published analyses of such WTO-exit scenarios for an answer.
wto
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Trump threatened to leave the WTO a while back. (This might be understated, but I won't search how many times he may have said that.)
What I want to ask is: what would be the consequences for a country, big or small, if it just left the WTO? I assume (economic) size might make a difference in outcomes, although I could be wrong on this.
As far as I know there aren't any concrete example of countries who left, but if I'm somehow wrong on this (too), then we could have a concrete example of the consequences. If not, then perhaps we'd have to rely on some published analyses of such WTO-exit scenarios for an answer.
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@JJJ: I don't know. Is there an economic shock effect for leaving, for instance? It's part of the question.
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@JJJ: I don't know. Is there an economic shock effect for leaving, for instance? It's part of the question.
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@JJJ: I don't know. Is there an economic shock effect for leaving, for instance? It's part of the question.
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One way to try to answer this is to look at the benefits of the WTO. The main two are Most Favored Nation and National Treatment:
Most Favored Nation basically says that if you lower a trade barrier for one nation you have to do the same for the others.
National Treatment basically means that you can't discriminate between locally produced goods and foreign goods. I'm not privy with the details but I'd spitball this is related to not favoring local businesses in government contracts, or at least not in broad daylight.
Conversely, if you were to leave the WTO, it would mean that your existing trading partners can now:
Lower trade barriers with other WTO members without lowering them for you; and increase trade barriers on you.
Favor their own local producers, and those of other WTO members, in lieu of yours.
A third benefit that you'd lose is the well oiled dispute resolution mechanism. Going forward you'd need to go negotiate arbitration clauses and put language to that effect in each trade treaty. Which I would imagine is not a big deal in practice. It would probably carry less predictable outcomes, but at the same time it could end up benefitting you on average if you're the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
A fourth benefit might also be that WTO members don't seem to go to war with one another very often. (They do impose sanctions on each other from time to time, though -- e.g. Russia.)
As to what would be the practical benefit for any country, in terms of economic damage, it would depend on the country and it's frankly anyone's guess.
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One way to try to answer this is to look at the benefits of the WTO. The main two are Most Favored Nation and National Treatment:
Most Favored Nation basically says that if you lower a trade barrier for one nation you have to do the same for the others.
National Treatment basically means that you can't discriminate between locally produced goods and foreign goods. I'm not privy with the details but I'd spitball this is related to not favoring local businesses in government contracts, or at least not in broad daylight.
Conversely, if you were to leave the WTO, it would mean that your existing trading partners can now:
Lower trade barriers with other WTO members without lowering them for you; and increase trade barriers on you.
Favor their own local producers, and those of other WTO members, in lieu of yours.
A third benefit that you'd lose is the well oiled dispute resolution mechanism. Going forward you'd need to go negotiate arbitration clauses and put language to that effect in each trade treaty. Which I would imagine is not a big deal in practice. It would probably carry less predictable outcomes, but at the same time it could end up benefitting you on average if you're the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
A fourth benefit might also be that WTO members don't seem to go to war with one another very often. (They do impose sanctions on each other from time to time, though -- e.g. Russia.)
As to what would be the practical benefit for any country, in terms of economic damage, it would depend on the country and it's frankly anyone's guess.
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One way to try to answer this is to look at the benefits of the WTO. The main two are Most Favored Nation and National Treatment:
Most Favored Nation basically says that if you lower a trade barrier for one nation you have to do the same for the others.
National Treatment basically means that you can't discriminate between locally produced goods and foreign goods. I'm not privy with the details but I'd spitball this is related to not favoring local businesses in government contracts, or at least not in broad daylight.
Conversely, if you were to leave the WTO, it would mean that your existing trading partners can now:
Lower trade barriers with other WTO members without lowering them for you; and increase trade barriers on you.
Favor their own local producers, and those of other WTO members, in lieu of yours.
A third benefit that you'd lose is the well oiled dispute resolution mechanism. Going forward you'd need to go negotiate arbitration clauses and put language to that effect in each trade treaty. Which I would imagine is not a big deal in practice. It would probably carry less predictable outcomes, but at the same time it could end up benefitting you on average if you're the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
A fourth benefit might also be that WTO members don't seem to go to war with one another very often. (They do impose sanctions on each other from time to time, though -- e.g. Russia.)
As to what would be the practical benefit for any country, in terms of economic damage, it would depend on the country and it's frankly anyone's guess.
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Denis de BernardyDenis de Bernardy
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One way to try to answer this is to look at the benefits of the WTO. The main two are Most Favored Nation and National Treatment:
Most Favored Nation basically says that if you lower a trade barrier for one nation you have to do the same for the others.
National Treatment basically means that you can't discriminate between locally produced goods and foreign goods. I'm not privy with the details but I'd spitball this is related to not favoring local businesses in government contracts, or at least not in broad daylight.
Conversely, if you were to leave the WTO, it would mean that your existing trading partners can now:
Lower trade barriers with other WTO members without lowering them for you; and increase trade barriers on you.
Favor their own local producers, and those of other WTO members, in lieu of yours.
A third benefit that you'd lose is the well oiled dispute resolution mechanism. Going forward you'd need to go negotiate arbitration clauses and put language to that effect in each trade treaty. Which I would imagine is not a big deal in practice. It would probably carry less predictable outcomes, but at the same time it could end up benefitting you on average if you're the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
A fourth benefit might also be that WTO members don't seem to go to war with one another very often. (They do impose sanctions on each other from time to time, though -- e.g. Russia.)
As to what would be the practical benefit for any country, in terms of economic damage, it would depend on the country and it's frankly anyone's guess.
answered 2 hours ago
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One way to try to answer this is to look at the benefits of the WTO. The main two are Most Favored Nation and National Treatment:
Most Favored Nation basically says that if you lower a trade barrier for one nation you have to do the same for the others.
National Treatment basically means that you can't discriminate between locally produced goods and foreign goods. I'm not privy with the details but I'd spitball this is related to not favoring local businesses in government contracts, or at least not in broad daylight.
Conversely, if you were to leave the WTO, it would mean that your existing trading partners can now:
Lower trade barriers with other WTO members without lowering them for you; and increase trade barriers on you.
Favor their own local producers, and those of other WTO members, in lieu of yours.
A third benefit that you'd lose is the well oiled dispute resolution mechanism. Going forward you'd need to go negotiate arbitration clauses and put language to that effect in each trade treaty. Which I would imagine is not a big deal in practice. It would probably carry less predictable outcomes, but at the same time it could end up benefitting you on average if you're the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
A fourth benefit might also be that WTO members don't seem to go to war with one another very often. (They do impose sanctions on each other from time to time, though -- e.g. Russia.)
As to what would be the practical benefit for any country, in terms of economic damage, it would depend on the country and it's frankly anyone's guess.
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@JJJ: I don't know. Is there an economic shock effect for leaving, for instance? It's part of the question.
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