Essentials of WTO law / Peter van den Bossche, Denise Prévost.
2016
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Title
Essentials of WTO law / Peter van den Bossche, Denise Prévost.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Call Number
K4610 .B669 2016
ISBN
9781107035836 (hardback)
110703583X (hardback)
9781107638938 (pbk.)
1107638933 (pbk.)
110703583X (hardback)
9781107638938 (pbk.)
1107638933 (pbk.)
Description
xxv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)926105928
Summary
"The national treatment obligation prohibits discrimination between foreign goods, services and service suppliers and domestic goods, services and service suppliers. Begin Box Under the national treatment obligation, WTO Member Agricola may not treat chocolate from Industria less favourably than it treats its domestic chocolate, once the chocolate from Industria has entered the Agricolan market. Neither may Agricola treat Industrian coffeehouses established in Agricola less favourably than Agricolan coffeehouses. End Box"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Essentials of World Trade Organization law
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Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
viii
Preface
ix
List of abbreviations
xi
Table of cases
xvi
1.
International trade and the law of the WTO
1
1.1.
need for international rules on international trade
1
1.2.
International trade law: bilateral, regional and multilateral agreements
3
1.3.
WTO law
4
1.4.
Sources of WTO law
5
1.5.
WTO law in context
8
Further reading
12
2.
Rules on non-discrimination
13
2.1.
Prohibition of discrimination
13
2.2.
MFN treatment obligation concerning trade in goods
14
2.3.
MFN treatment obligation concerning trade in services
22
2.4.
National treatment obligation concerning trade in goods
29
2.5.
National treatment obligation concerning trade in services
41
Further reading
47
3.
Rules on market access
49
3.1.
Introduction
49
3.2.
Customs duties and other duties and charges on imports
50
3.3.
Export duties and charges
60
3.4.
Quantitative restrictions on trade in goods
61
3.5.
Other non-tariff barriers to trade in goods
66
3.6.
Market access barriers to trade in services
71
3.7.
Other barriers to trade in services
79
Further reading
81
4.
Trade liberalization and other societal values and interests
83
4.1.
Introduction
83
4.2.
General exceptions under Article XX of the GATT 1994
85
4.3.
General exceptions under Article XIV of the GATS
104
4.4.
Exceptions for national and international security
110
4.5.
Exceptions for safeguard measures
112
4.6.
Exceptions for balance of payments measures
126
4.7.
Exceptions for regional trade agreements
129
4.8.
Exceptions for economic development
136
Further reading
139
5.
Rules on unfair trade
141
5.1.
Introduction
141
5.2.
Rules on dumping
141
5.3.
Rules on subsidization
158
Further reading
176
6.
Rules regarding harmonization of national regulation
178
6.1.
Introduction
178
6.2.
TBT Agreement
179
6.3.
SPS Agreement
194
6.4.
TRIPS Agreement
214
Further reading
230
7.
institutional aspects of the WTO
232
7.1.
Introduction
232
7.2.
Objectives
233
7.3.
Functions
234
7.4.
Institutional structure
241
7.5.
Membership
246
7.6.
Decision-making procedures
255
7.7.
Status and budget
257
Further reading
258
8.
WTO dispute settlement system
259
8.1.
Introduction
259
8.2.
Object and purpose
262
8.3.
Jurisdiction
265
8.4.
Access
266
8.5.
Dispute settlement organs
270
8.6.
Procedural arrangements
274
8.7.
Key features of the proceedings
289
8.8.
Developing countries and dispute settlement
293
Further reading
295
Online resources
296
Index
303