The bicycle club: Affirming the American interest in the future of the WTO

Journal of World Trade

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 429-441

  Bacchus, James ^a  

^a WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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EID: 21144433757     PISSN: 10116702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54648/trad2003023     Document Type: Article

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2. Jagdish Bhagwati, Protectionism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988), p. 41.
3. See Ben Zissimos, "Gradualism, the Bicycle Theory, and Perpetual Trade Liberalization", paper presented to the Asian Crisis II conference, Seattle, 4-5 January 2000.
4. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (New York: Modern Library, 1994 [1776]), 14.
5. Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (New York: Viking, 2002), p. 297.
6. Douglas A. Irwin, Free Trade Under Fire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002), p. 30.
7. Id., at pp. 36-39.
8. Timothy Taylor, The Truth about Globalization, The Public Interest (Spring 2002).
9. Quoted in Irwin, as note 6 above, at p. 45.
10. Immanuel Kant, "To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch", in Perpetual Peace and Other Essays (Indianapolis; Hackett, 1983 [1795]), pp. 107, 125.
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12. The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization, done at Marrakesh, Morocco (15 April 1994).
13. World Trade Organization, The Multilateral Trading System: 50 Years of Achievement (Geneva: WTO, 1998), p. 5.
14. Ibid., at p. 21.
15. Ibid.
16. John F. Kennedy, Presidential Address in Frankfurt, Germany (24 June 1963).
17. Glen W. Harrison, Thomas W. Rutherford and David G. Tarr, "Quantifying the Uruguay Round", in Will Martin and L. Alan Winters (eds), The Uruguay Round and the Developing Countries (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
18. See also Irwin, as note 6 above, at 31.
19. Office of the United States Trade Representative, "America and the World Trade Organization", p. 2, online at .
20. Irwin, as note 6 above, at p. 55.
21. Ibid, at pp. 55-66.
22. Ibid, at p. 60.
23. Ibid.
24. Drusilla K. Brown, Alan Deardorff and Robert M. Stern, "Impact on NAFTA Members of Multilateral and Regional Trade Arrangements and Initiatives and Harmonization of NAFTA's External Tariffs", Research Seminar in International Economics Discussion Paper No. 471, University of Michigan (June 2001).
25. See also Irwin, as note 6 above, at pp. 29-35.
26. Council of Economic Advisers, "Trade and the American Economy: The Case for Trade Promotion Authority" (12 February 2002), p. 14, at .
27. Brown et al., as note 23 above.
28. Mike Moore, "To Doha and Beyond: A Roadmap for Successfully Concluding the Doha Development Round", address to the Evian VII Plenary Meeting, Montreux, Switzerland (12 April 2002).
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (New York: Penguin, 1990 [1963]), pp. 220, 319.
33. Article 3.2, WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding.
34. See Article II and Article III, Rules of Conduct for the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes, World Trade Organization.
35. Michael M. Weinstein, Economic Scene: Should Clinton Embrace the China Trade Deal? "Some Say Yes", New York Times (9 September 1999), at C2.
36. Article 17.12, WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding.
37. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. II (New York: Colonial Press, 1899 [1840]), p. 129.
38. Ibid., at p. 130.
39. Ibid., at p. 131.
40. USTR, as note 18 above, at pp. 5-6.