Three Decades of Trade Concerns at the Committee on Market Access: Evolution, Repetition, and Cross-Body Diffusion (1995–2025)

This paper examines how trade concern discussions in the WTO Committee on Market Access (CMA) have evolved over three decades. It studies 138 CMA trade concerns discussed between 1995 and 2025, using the WTO Trade Concerns Database, official WTO records, and statement-level text from CMA minutes.