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Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Safeguard Measures in Multilateral and Regional Trade Agreements written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rohini Acharya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107161649
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System written by Rohini Acharya and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of studies examining trade-related issues negotiated in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and how RTAs are related to the WTO's rules. While previous work has focused on subsets of RTAs, these studies are based on what is probably the largest dataset used to date, and highlight key issues that have been negotiated in all RTAs notified to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). New rules within RTAs are compared to rules agreed upon by WTO members. The extent of their divergences and the potential implications for parties to RTAs, as well as for WTO members that are not parties to RTAs, are examined. This volume makes an important contribution to the current debate on the role of the WTO in regulating international trade and how WTO rules relate to new rules being developed by RTAs.
Author : Mohammad F. A. Nsour
Publisher : Sidestone Press
ISBN 13 : 9088900361
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the World Trade Order written by Mohammad F. A. Nsour and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have proliferated at an unprecedented pace since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Although the WTO legally recognizes countries' entitlement to form RTAs, neither the WTO nor parties to RTAs have an unequivocal understanding of the relationship between the WTO and RTAs. In other words, the legal controversies, the result of uncertainty regarding the application of the WTO/GATT laws, risk undermining the objectives of the multilateral trade system. This research tackles a phenomenon that is widely believed to be heavily economic and political. It highlights the economic and political aspects of regionalism, but largely concentrates on the legal dimension of regionalism. The main argument of the book is that the first step to achieving harmony between multilateralism and regionalism is the identification of the legal uncertainties that regionalism produces when countries form RTAs without taking into account the substantive and procedural aspect of the applicable WTO/ GATT laws. The book calls for the creation of a legal instrument (i.e. agreement on RTAs) that combines all of the applicable law on RTAs, and simultaneously clarifies the legal language used therein. Likewise, the WTO should have a proactive role, not merely as a coordinator of RTAs, but as a watchdog for the multilateral system that has the power to prosecute violating RTAs. The author is aware that political concerns are top priorities for governments and policy makers when dealing with the regionalism problematic. Hence, legal solutions or proposals are not sufficient to create a better international trade system without the good will of the WTO Members who are, in fact, the players who are striving to craft more regional trade arrangements.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264101373
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Regionalism and the Multilateral Trading System written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-09 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares rule-making provisions in regional trade agreements with those of the WTO in ten specific areas: services, labour mobility, investment, competition policy, trade facilitation, government procurement, intellectual property rights, contingency protection, environment and rules of origin.
Author : Rohini Acharya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316889416
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System written by Rohini Acharya and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of studies examining trade-related issues negotiated in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and how RTAs are related to the WTO's rules. While previous work has focused on subsets of RTAs, these studies are based on what is probably the largest dataset used to date, and highlight key issues that have been negotiated in all RTAs notified to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). New rules within RTAs are compared to rules agreed upon by WTO members. The extent of their divergences and the potential implications for parties to RTAs, as well as for WTO members that are not parties to RTAs, are examined. This volume makes an important contribution to the current debate on the role of the WTO in regulating international trade and how WTO rules relate to new rules being developed by RTAs.
Author : Roman Grynberg
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN 13 : 9780850927627
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Multilateral and Regional Trade Issues for Developing Countries written by Roman Grynberg and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in a set of volumes of compilations of Trade Briefs, intended to serve as sources of information and training, and as reference tools for officials, policy makers and other persons responsible for following negotiations on behalf of Commonwealth developing countries. This volume focuses on the various multilateral and regional negotiations and in particular, the Doha Development Round and ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). The Papers are presented in a manner which allows for flexibility and accessibility of use. The volume is divided into clear sections according to topics making it easier for trade officials, trade negotiators and researchers to find their subject area of interest. Equally, the volume offers a wide enough selection of trade topics, for individuals with little or no expertise in trade negotiations to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the current state of international negotiations. Book jacket.
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ISBN 13 : 9789174737936
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Safeguard Measures and Exceptions from the Principle of Non-discrimination written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imposition of customs duties and other trade restricting measures are covered by certain fundamental general principles, such as the non-discrimination principle which is a main principle of WTO law. The principle ensures that WTO Members should not discriminate against their trading partners or between foreign and domestic goods. Some exceptions are however allowed. Members may conclude Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) which further liberalise trade between the parties. Under certain conditions they are also allowed to apply trade defence measures, such as safeguard measures, which are meant to be used in emergency cases only. WTO law as well as many RTAs include rules on safeguards. In this study they are referred to as multilateral and regional safeguards respectively. The principle of non-discrimination and its exceptions play an essential role in relation to safeguard measures. According to WTO law safeguard measures are to be applied in a non-discriminative manner, which means that they shall target all imports of the product at issue irrespective of their origin. This principle is however not always upheld. Of particular interest for this study is the question of how the rules on safeguards de jure and de facto are applied in a selective way to achieve developmental goals and regional free trade. Multilateral as well as regional safeguard measures are studied and compared in order to pinpoint similarities and differences. Two regional trade arrangements have been chosen for this purpose: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). Furthermore, two case studies Vietnam and Botswana serve as illustrative examples of the complexity of the situation for developing countries in Asia and Africa. The results of the study show that if the purpose of multilateral safeguard measures is to restrict the use of escape clauses they are effective; but if the purpose is to provide an escape clause they are not. However, the use of regional safeguard measures seems to interfere with the proper functioning of the non-discrimination principle. Moreover, the spaghetti bowl of regional trade agreements create uncertainty as to when and to whom safeguard measures can be applied. Finally, most regional trade agreements do not include sufficient special and differential treatment of developing countries when it comes to safeguard measures.
Author : Ross P. Buckley
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9041127119
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Challenges to Multilateral Trade written by Ross P. Buckley and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress in multilateral negotiations to liberalize trade under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become more difficult since newer members are generally developing countries with different interests than the United States, the European Union and other industrialized countries. More than 250 free trade agreements (FTAs) have come into effect since 1948. Partly as a result of the WTO impasse, over 130 FTAs have been ratified just in the past ten years; each agreement has been designed to eliminate trade restrictions and subsidies between the parties involved. Almost all of the WTO Members participate in one or more FTAs (some Members are party to twenty or more). Most books on FTAs are country- or region-specific, while others deal with the subject from a particular perspective. This timely work, produced by some of the world's leading experts in their respective fields, employs a broader approach exploring FTAs from the interdisciplinary perspectives of international law, political economy, culture and human rights
Author : Marco C. E. J. Bronckers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Selective Safeguard Measures in Multilateral Trade Relations written by Marco C. E. J. Bronckers and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thilo Rensmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319566636
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Mega-Regional Trade Agreements written by Thilo Rensmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth analysis of "Mega-Regionals", the new generation of trans-regional free-trade agreements (FTAs) currently under negotiation, and their effect on the future of international economic law. The main focus centres on the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), but the findings are also applicable to similar agreements under negotiation, such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).The specific features of Mega-Regional Trade Agreements raise a number of issues with respect to their potential effect on the current system of international trade and investment law. These include the consequences of Mega-Regionals for the most-favoured-nation (MFN) principle, their relation to the multilateral system of the World Trade Organization (WTO), their democratic legitimacy and their interaction with existing bilateral investment treaties (BITs).The book is intended for academics and practitioners working in the field of international economic law.
Author : Aaditya Mattoo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464815542
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements written by Aaditya Mattoo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep trade agreements (DTAs) cover not just trade but additional policy areas, such as international flows of investment and labor and the protection of intellectual property rights and the environment. Their goal is integration beyond trade or deep integration. These agreements matter for economic development. Their rules influence how countries (and hence, the people and firms that live and operate within them) transact, invest, work, and ultimately, develop. Trade and investment regimes determine the extent of economic integration, competition rules affect economic efficiency, intellectual property rights matter for innovation, and environmental and labor rules contribute to environmental and social outcomes. This Handbook provides the tools and data needed to analyze these new dimensions of integration and to assess the content and consequences of DTAs. The Handbook and the accompanying database are the result of collaboration between experts in different policy areas from academia and other international organizations, including the International Trade Centre (ITC), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and World Trade Organization (WTO).
Author : Antoni Estevadeordal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521760844
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Regional Rules in the Global Trading System written by Antoni Estevadeordal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the rules governing regional trade agreements, providing new insights into the interplay between regional and multilateral trade rules.
Author : Robert Teh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Trade Remedy Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements written by Robert Teh and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper maps the provisions on anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards in seventy-four regional trade agreements. The key concern of the paper is that the elastic and selective nature of trade remedies may lead to more discrimination, with reduced trade remedy actions against RTA partners, but a greater frequency of actions against non-members. The adoption of RTA-specific trade remedy rules increases this risk of discrimination, with trade remedies against RTA members being abolished outright or being subjected to greater discipline. The results of the mappings suggest the need to be vigilant about increased discrimination arising from trade remedy rules in RTAs. A number of RTAs have succeeded in abolishing trade remedies. These RTAs are characterized by a higher share of intra-RTA trade and deeper forms of integration that go beyond the dismantling of border measures. A large number of RTAs have adopted RTA-specific rules that tighten discipline on the application of trade remedies on members. Some anti-dumping provisions increase de minimis volume and dumping margin requirements and shorten the duration for applying anti-dumping duties relative to the WTO Anti-dumping Agreement. Safeguard measures can be imposed only during the transition period, have shorter duration periods and require compensation if put in place. RTA provisions on global safeguards require that, under certain conditions, RTA partners be exempted from multilateral safeguard actions. A small number of RTAs give a role to regional institutions to conduct anti-dumping investigations and to review final determinations of national authorities. This may reduce the frequency of anti-dumping initiations and final determinations against RTA members. In the case of CVDs, we are unable to find major innovations in CVD rules and practice by past and present RTAs. A major reason for this may be the absence of commitments in the RTA on meaningful curbs on subsidies.
Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Most-favoured-nation Treatment written by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication contains an explanation of Most Favored Nation (MFN) treatment and some of the key issues that arise in its negotiation, particularly the scope and application of MFN treatment to the liberalization and protection of foreign investors in recent treaty practice. The paper provides policy options as regards the traditional application of MFN treatment and identifies reactions by States to the unexpected broad use of MFN treatment, and provides several drafting options, such as specifying or narrowing down the scope of application of MFN treatment to certain types of activities, clarifying the nature of "treatment" under the IIA, clarifying the comparison that an arbitral tribunal needs to undertake as well as a qualification of the comparison "in like circumstances" or excluding its use in investor-State cases.
Author : Andrew D. Mitchell
Publisher : Cameron May
ISBN 13 : 1905017049
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Challenges and Prospects for the WTO written by Andrew D. Mitchell and published by Cameron May. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions ... based on papers delivered at the Sixth and Seventh Conferences of the World Trade Law Association (WTLA) ... as well as specially commissioned chapters"--p. 1.
Author : Rhea Tamara Hoffmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030469557
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Coherence and Divergence in Services Trade Law written by Rhea Tamara Hoffmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses topical questions concerning the legal framework of trade in services, and assesses how these issues are dealt with in GATS and in selected preferential trade agreements. In addition, the chapters discuss whether the differences and similarities (if any) are evidence of greater coherence or greater divergence. The book combines the individual analyses to provide a more comprehensive picture of the current law on services trade liberalisation.A quarter of a century after the conclusion of the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS), international law on trade in services is still in a state of flux: on the one hand, countries increasingly conclude bilateral and regional trade agreements with sections on trade in services that aim at a further liberalisation of services trade. On the other, the GATS structure remains the dominant model and serves as the basis for many preferential trade agreements. In addition, new aspects such as electronic commerce, data protection and taxation are now emerging, while issues that had already manifested in the mid-1990s such as financial services regulation, labour mobility, and telecommunications continue to be problematic. Usually, the debates focus on the question of whether preferential trade agreements serve as a stepping-stone or stumbling block for trade liberalisation at the multilateral level. However, it can be assumed that rules on trade in services in preferential trade agreements will coexist with the global GATS regime for the foreseeable future. This raises the question of whether we’re currently witnessing a drive towards greater coherence or more divergence in agreements on trade in services.
Author : Lorand Bartels
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System written by Lorand Bartels and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System' introduces the economic & political underpinnings of regional trade agreements, their constitutional functions, & their role as a locus for integrating trade & human rights.
