Negotiating Free-trade Agreements
Author : Walter Goode
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781921244957
Most-favoured-nation Treatment
Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Book Description
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.
Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy
Author : Roger B. Porter
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815771630
Book Description
Despite its widely acknowledged contribution to global prosperity over the past half century, the movement toward further liberalization has increasingly been challenged. This collection of essays examine several key issues at the heart of the debate over the multilateral trading system.
Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Economic Efficiency and GATT Rules
Author : Çağlar Özden
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN :
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Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System
Author : Rohini Acharya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107161649
Book Description
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.
Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements
Author : Aaditya Mattoo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1464815542
Book Description
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).
GATT and Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Balance of trade
ISBN :
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Handbook of Commercial Policy
Author :
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0444639268
Book Description
Handbook of Commercial Policy explores three main topics that permeate the study of commercial policy. The first section presents a broad set of basic empirical facts regarding the pattern and evolution of commercial policy, with the second section investigating the crosscutting legal issues relating to the purpose and design of agreements. Final sections cover key issues of commercial policy in the modern global economy. Every chapter in the book provides coverage from the perspectives of multilateral, and where appropriate, preferential trade agreements. While most other volumes are policy-oriented, this comprehensive guide explores the ways that intellectual thinking and rigor organize research, further making frontier-level synthesis and current theoretical, and empirical, research accessible to all. - Covers the research areas that are critical for understanding how the world of commercial policy has changed, especially over the last 20 years - Presents the way in which research on the topic has evolved - Scrutinizes the economic modeling of bargaining and legal issues - Useful for examining the theory and empirics of commercial policy
Mega-Regional Trade Agreements
Author : Thilo Rensmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 3319566636
Book Description
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.
Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law
Author : Henrik Horn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107068002
Book Description
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement covers international commerce in goods and services including measures that directly affect trade, such as import tariffs and quotas, and almost any type of internal measure with an impact on trade. Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law contributes to the analysis of the texts of World Trade Law in law and economics, reporting work done to identify improvements to the interpretation of the Agreement. It starts with background studies, the first summarizes The Genesis of the GATT, which highlights the negotiating history of the GATT 1947–8; the second introduces the economics of trade agreements. These are followed by two main studies. The first, authored by Bagwell, Staiger and Sykes, discusses legal and economic aspects of the GATT regulation of border policy instruments, such as import tariffs and import quotas. The second, written by Grossman, Horn and Mavroidis, focuses on the core provision for the regulation of domestic policy instruments - the National Treatment principles in Art. III GATT.
