Growing world trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack by opponents. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as plant closings and layoffs of workers, and charge that the World Trade Organization serves the interests of corporations, undercuts domestic environmental regulations, and erodes America's sovereig…
The multilateral trading maintains special trading regime for developing countries in GATT/WTO, namely "special and differential treatment" (SDT). The extent to which this regime has supported the special needs of developing countries for trade and development is always questionable. Is SDT a fair trade tool for developing countries, or is it just an exceptional regime that distorts free trade?…
The term "globalization" means many things: the flow of goods and services across borders; the movement of people and firms; the spread of culture and ideas between countries; and the tight integration of financial markets around the world. In this book, contain some analyzes the flows of goods and services, people, and capital between countries and the policies that governemnts use to influenc…
The Discussion of free trade is akin to discussion its impact to Indonesia. This literature evoke the dynamics of free trade from demand of multilateral trade system into bargaining of a bilateral system that ends up only benefiting parties of the agreement and discarding external parties in process. This book provides fundamental theory for its reader regarding international trade law in Indon…