LLM Group 2 Business Law Global Trade Under World Trade Organisation Solved Question Papers with Answers 2015 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

Global Trade Under World Trade Organisation is Paper II of LLM Group II, subject code 76020, and the first thing to establish is how many papers this folder actually holds. Nine files hold twelve distinct printed papers, because three of the nine scans carry two complete and different papers each rather than a paper and its Marathi translation. The file labelled 2015 holds Q.P. Codes 12212 and 27121, with separate printer lines BB-Con. 9033-15 and BB-Con. 1742-15; the 2018 file holds Q.P. Codes 05747 and 29843; and the three page 2019 file holds Q.P. Code 05749 on page one and form 80741 on pages two and three, the third page being form 80741's Marathi. In each case the tell is the Q.P. Code changing partway through the scan, not the language.

The shape almost never changes. Eleven of the twelve papers print seven questions, ask for any four, state that all questions carry equal marks and total 100 in three hours, so every question is worth exactly twenty five marks. Six of them print that figure against the questions and six print only the total, but the arithmetic is the paper's own either way. The last question is always a short notes question offering three, four or five items of which two or three are to be written. The single exception is the 2022 paper, which is the online pattern: fifteen short notes at three marks with any ten to be attempted, then twelve detailed notes at ten marks with any seven, which is thirty plus seventy, and it prints no Q.P. Code, no form number and no duration at all.

Counted question by question across all twelve papers, dispute settlement is the only topic set in every single one. The structure and functions of the WTO and TRIPS are each set in ten of the twelve, GATT as such and patents in nine, most favoured nation treatment, sanitary and phytosanitary measures and geographical indications in eight each, and trade in services, national treatment, anti-dumping, countervailing measures and customs valuation in seven each. Safeguards appear in four, pre-shipment inspection in four, and quantitative restrictions in five.

The strongest planning fact in this folder was found by mapping every question to a topic and then testing every possible combination of topics, not by impression. There is exactly one set of four topics that answers at least four questions on every one of the ten seven question papers, which is all a candidate has to write: the structure and functions of the WTO, dispute settlement, TRIPS, and the short notes question. No set of three does it, and if the notes question is excluded the smallest workable set jumps to six. So a candidate who prepares those three subjects properly and has ready notes on the recurring items can walk into any paper in this folder and answer a full four.

The examiner's interests shifted decisively around 2022, and the clearest marker is the Bretton Woods Conference. It is set in five of the twelve papers and every one of those five is 2022 or later: the online paper, 2023, 2024, 2024-25 and 2025-26. Not one of the seven papers from 2015 to 2019 mentions it. Over the same period the questions became less about the machinery of GATT and more about the institutions, so the newer papers reward an answer that can place the WTO beside the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and explain that the trade pillar recommended in 1944 was not built until 1995.

Two of the twelve papers are the same paper, re-set three years apart, and it is worth knowing which. Q.P. Code 27121 on page two of the 2015 scan and Q.P. Code 05747 on page one of the 2018 scan share six of their seven questions word for word. The differences are all in the later printing: 05747 drops the word Maritime from the list of service sectors in its question three, cuts the words about the mechanism out of the quotation in its question six, and carries at least six press slips, printing Taffifs for Tariffs, campare for compare, kay for key, importance for importers, smothy for smoothly and inpection for inspection. Form 80741 in the 2019 scan and the 2023 paper are also very close, sharing three questions in nearly identical words.

What the folder is thin on is as useful as what it repeats. The environment is set once in twelve papers, maritime transport three times, the Doha Declaration three times and developing country participation in dispute settlement three times, so those are the questions most likely to be left unattempted by a room full of candidates and the cheapest place to gain a comparative advantage. Financial services appear only twice, both times as a note.

Finally, two faults in the scans themselves, surfaced here rather than corrected because the upload names are part of live addresses. The 2025-26 file is page one of a two page paper, footed Page 1 of 2, and it stops after question six, so a seventh question exists on a page that is not in the source; six are printed and six are answered. And the two pages of the 2024-25 file are in the wrong order, the Marathi half footed Page 2 of 2 appearing first and the English half footed Page 1 of 2 second, so nothing is missing from that one even though it looks wrong at first sight.

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