Advanced introduction to international trade law / Michael J. Trebilcock (Professor of Law and Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada).
2015
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Title
Advanced introduction to international trade law / Michael J. Trebilcock (Professor of Law and Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada).
Uniform Title
Understanding trade law
Published
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
K3943 .T74 2015
ISBN
9781783471591 (cased)
178347159X (cased)
9781783471607 (paperback)
1783471603 (paperback)
9781783471614 (e-book)
178347159X (cased)
9781783471607 (paperback)
1783471603 (paperback)
9781783471614 (e-book)
Description
x, 215 pages : illustrration ; 22 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)903673743
Note
"This revised edition of Understanding trade law (2011) is an introductory book on international trade law (principally GATT/WTO law)"--Page ix.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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International trade law
Table of Contents
Preface
ix
1.
Setting the context
1
1.1.
Classical free trade theory
1
1.2.
Qualifications to the case for free trade
5
1.3.
Objections to free trade
8
1.4.
Institutional history of international trade policy
10
1.5.
Governance and dispute settlement in the WTO
11
1.6.
Preferential trade agreements
14
1.7.
Overview of the substantive provisions of the GATT/WTO
16
1.8.
Doha Round
22
2.
Dispute settlement under the WTO
24
2.1.
History
24
2.2.
contemporary complaints process
26
2.3.
Utilization of the new dispute-settlement process
28
2.4.
Critical issues in evaluating the dispute-settlement system in world trade law
29
3.
Tariffs and the Most Favoured Nation Principle
32
3.1.
economic (welfare) effects of a tariff
32
3.2.
International tariff negotiations
33
3.3.
Domestic administration of tariffs
34
3.4.
Most Favoured Nation Principle
36
3.5.
Conclusion
43
4.
Preferential trade agreements
44
4.1.
Introduction
44
4.2.
legal framework for preferential trade agreements under the GATT
45
4.3.
contested case for preferential trade agreements
48
4.4.
Conclusion
52
5.
National Treatment Principle
53
5.1.
Introduction
53
5.2.
GATT (pre-WTO) case law
54
5.3.
WTO (post-1995) case law
56
5.4.
Critique of GATT/WTO case law
59
6.
Antidumping laws
61
6.1.
Introduction
61
6.2.
GATT/WTO provisions on antidumping
62
6.3.
Domestic administration of antidumping duties
66
6.4.
Normative rationales for antidumping duties
70
6.5.
Reforming antidumping duty regimes
74
7.
Subsidies, countervailing duties and government procurement
76
7.1.
Introduction
76
7.2.
GATT subsidies regime
77
7.3.
Uruguay Round Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM) Agreement
79
7.4.
WTO case law on the interpretation and application of subsidy rules
81
7.5.
Normative rationales for disciplines on subsidies
86
7.6.
Protectionism in government procurement
88
8.
Safeguards and adjustment assistance policies
92
8.1.
Introduction
92
8.2.
Substantive requirements of the GATT/WTO safeguards regime
96
8.3.
Rationales for safeguard regimes
100
8.4.
Alternatives to safeguards
101
8.5.
Reforming the safeguards regime
102
9.
Trade and agriculture
103
9.1.
Introduction
103
9.2.
Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture
105
9.3.
Doha Round negotiations on agriculture
107
9.4.
basic economics of agricultural supply management schemes
109
9.5.
Rationales for special protection of the agricultural sector
111
9.6.
Breaking the impasse
114
10.
Trade in services
116
10.1.
Introduction
116
10.2.
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
117
10.3.
WTO case law on the GATS
123
10.4.
Critiques of the GATS
125
10.5.
Alternative service liberalization modalities
125
11.
Trade and investment
128
11.1.
Introduction
128
11.2.
Multilateral regulation of foreign direct investment
131
11.3.
Bilateral investment treaties
133
11.4.
Conclusion
137
12.
Trade-related intellectual property rights
138
12.1.
Introduction
138
12.2.
pre-Uruguay Round international legal framework
139
12.3.
Uruguay Round TRIPS Agreement
140
12.4.
essential medicines debate
144
13.
Trade policy and domestic health and safety regulation
149
13.1.
Introduction
149
13.2.
GATT framework
150
13.3.
SPS and TBT Agreements
154
13.4.
Conclusion
166
14.
Trade policy and the environment
167
14.1.
Introduction
167
14.2.
Overview of GATT/WTO case law
169
14.3.
Trade policy and climate change
174
15.
Trade policy, labour standards and human rights
178
15.1.
Introduction
178
15.2.
Rationales for a trade policy-labour standards-human rights linkage
180
15.3.
Choice of instrument
182
16.
Trade policy and developing countries
186
16.1.
Introduction
186
16.2.
Special and differential treatment: an assessment
192
17.
Future challenges for the world trading system
199
17.1.
Governance of the World Trade Organization
199
17.2.
Multilateralism versus preferential trade agreements
200
17.3.
Developing countries in the world trading system
200
17.4.
Trade and cognate areas of international law
200
17.5.
Contingent protection regimes
201
17.6.
Trade and agriculture
201
17.7.
Trade policy and exchange rates
201
17.8.
Trade policy and foreign direct investment
202
Index
203