To protect differential treatment deriving from ratchet clauses.

It's like jumping of a cliff; there is no turning back.

India also opposed ‘ratchet’ provisions and most favoured nation treatment on investment and services.

In Ireland, the laboratory of the first generation of non-lethal weapons, the use of these weapons encouraged and exacerbated the conflict (10).

But in a paper written more than 20 years ago, Olivier Blanchard and Lawrence Summers (Blanchard and Summers, 1986) asserted that unemployment rates have a ratcheting effect.

And that’s why I talked about the bandwagon effect.