Developed countries in world trade organisation-dispute settlement system: A database analysis

This article reports some initial findings based on the enriched data set that the author has compiled for her research. With precisely 51220 observations, this paper covers all 412 WTO disputes initiated by a developed country against another developed country through the official filing of a Request for Consultations from January 1995 until December 2022. The statistical information that we present here is divided into four distributional units namely the country unit, the agreement unit, the subject unit, and finally the time unit. One remarkable contribution of this paper is the reclassification of highly integrated dispute subjects into a highly disintegrated class of subject issues.