The Prospects of International Trade Regulation: from Fragmentation to Coherence

For a long time, the GATT led life of its own as aself-contained regime. The evolution from tariff barriers brought about increasing overlaps with other regulatory areas. WTO rules increasingly interface with other areas of law and policy, labour standars, investment, human right and regional integration. Againts this backdrop, this book examines fragmentation in international trade regulation …

The Law and Politics of WTO Waivers: Stability and Flexibility in Public Inte…

Despite being an important legal instrument in the law of the WTO, the waiver has hitherto been the subject of little scholarly analysis. Isabel Feichtner fills this gap by challenging the conventional view that the WTO's political bodies do not engage in significant law-making. She systemizes the GATT and WTO waiver practice and suggests a typology of waivers as individual exceptions, general …

WTO Trade - Related Aspects Of Intellectual Property Rights

With the WTO TRIPS Agreement, intellectual property issues have become an integral part of the world trading system. The Agreement probably represents the most significant and controversial development in world trade law. The Agreement is comprehensive in scope and contains standards for protection of a number of intellectual property rights as well as rules on the enforcement of such rights. F…

Rules Of Origin In International Trade

This book discusses the different aspects of origin with a multidisciplinary perspective. It offers the first overview of the status of the negotiations on nonpreferential rules of origin under the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on rules of origin, after more than 10 years of negotiations, and its possible implications for other WTO Agreements. This book deals extensively with prefere…

Legal Principles In WTO Disputes

Having passed its thirteenth anniversary, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become one of the most important international organisations in existence. As the only global intergovernmental organisation concerned with tje rules of trade between nations, it is the learding forum for trade negotiations and for the resolution of trade disputes. Its dispute settlement system has attracted enormo…

The law and policy of the World Trade Organization

This is primarily a textbook for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of law; however, practising lawyers and policy-makers who are looking for an introduction to WTO law will also find it invaluable. The book covers both the institutional and substantive law of the WTO. While the treatment of the law is quite detailed, the main aim of this textbook is to make clear the basic princip…

General Policy On Export

The 2009th edition of export regulations book is reliable source of information for business entities in handling export and trade activities, as well as for related institutions and other general interest in relation with international trade which its specification is export. The regulations book comprises enhancements as a part of regulations of Trade Ministry Department, which contributes to…

Trade Governance In the Digital Age: World Trade Forum

The development of new digital technologies has resulted in significant transformations in daily life, from the arrival of online shopping to more fundamental changes in the ways we work and communicate. Many of these changes raise questions that transcend market access and liberalisation and demand cooperation and coherrent regulatory design. International trade regulation has hitherto not rea…

Gateways to Globalisation: Asia's International Trading and Finance Centres

This volume is the result of a three-year research project, La Mediterranee asiatique et ses plates-formes coomerciales (International Trading Hubs in East and Southeast Asia) 2006-2009, funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France). The research has involved extensive data collection, field studies and interviews in China, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Our team included historians,…

Processes And Production Methods (PPMs) In WTO Law: Interfacing Trade And Soc…