Trade monitoring
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Esta publicación se realizó bajo la dirección de Hubert Escaith, Estadístico Jefe y Andreas Maurer, Jefe de la Sección de Estadísticas del Comercio Internacional. La coordinación y la producción de cuadros, gráficos y mapas fue realizada por Ninez Piezas-Jerbi, con la colaboración de Coleman Nee y Anna-Sophia Fuss. En la investigación estadística, la recopilación de datos y el cálculo de las estimaciones participaron Barbara d’Andrea-Adrian, Alejandra Barajas Barbosa, Sanja Blazevic, Lori Chang, Christophe Degain, Florian Eberth, Aude Lanois, Antonella Liberatore, Coleman Nee, Ninez Piezas-Jerbi y Ying Yan.
Introduction
Le Mécanisme d’examen des politiques commerciales (MEPC) a été établi à titre expérimental par les parties contractantes du GATT en avril 1989. Il est devenu un élément permanent de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce en vertu de l’Accord de Marrakech qui a institué cette organisation en janvier 1995.
Report by the WTO Secretariat
Korea’s export-driven economy has rebounded from the global financial crisis that erupted around the time of its previous Trade Policy Review in 2008. This rebound is the result of the revival of trade world-wide and supportive macroeconomic and financial policies, including the largest fiscal stimulus among OECD countries, as well as accommodative monetary policy and a sharp depreciation of the exchange rate of the won during the latter part of 2008. The rebound was, by and large, achieved without resorting to restrictive trade measures; on the contrary, Korea has instead opened its market further to international trade through major bilateral free-trade agreements. The strong recovery in exports is such that Korea is now the world’s seventh largest exporter, up from twelfth in 2008.
Trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS)
Access to medicines for the poorest countries, promotion of transparency and leastdeveloped countries’ needs for assistance were some of the topics discussed by the TRIPS Council in 2011 as part of its regular review of intellectual property matters in the WTO’s member countries. The Council also discussed particular concerns raised by individual countries, such as Australia’s plain packaging bill for tobacco products.