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July/August 2000, 
Vol. 82, No. 4
Posted 2000-07-01

The WTO and Market-Supportive Regulation: A Way Forward on New Competition Technological and Labor Issues

by J. David Richardson

This article argues that some “new issues” in the global trade negotiations belong there quite naturally. The author labels these conformable issues “market-supportive regulation” and notes that wise incorporation of these regulations into the World Trade Organization is the key to generating a new wave of “gains from trade” within and among societies.