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State Trading and International Trade Negotiations

Author : Brian Paddock

Publisher : Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Page : 22 pages

File Size : 12,22 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Foreign trade regulation

ISBN :

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This report is a qualitative analysis of several specific elements that influence the emerging trade policy environment, based on the experiences of past negotiations, recent developments, published papers, public commentary, and discussions with policy analysts. It focuses on state trading, and begins with a brief history of state trading and international trade negotiations. Section 3 reviews definitions and rules related to state trading. This is followed by discussion of the approaches used for analysis of state trading enterprises, concerns over state trading (subsidization, transparency, immunity from certain risks, price discrimination), and future directions for negotiations and for economic analysis.



State Trading in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Thomas Cottier

Publisher : University of Michigan Press

Page : 465 pages

File Size : 19,51 MB

Release : 2010-05-06

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0472026453

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The University of Michigan Press is pleased to announce the first volume in an annual series, The World Trade Forum. The Forum's members include scholars, lawyers, and government and business practitioners working in the area of international trade, law, and policy. They meet annually and discuss integration issues in international economic relations, focusing on a new theme each year. The central topic of the first World Trade Forum is state trading. To what extent has trade liberalization, as we have experienced it over the last fifty years, affected property ownership? Contributors to the 1998 World Trade Forum explore this question, examining both state practice and the regulatory framework. Their discussions are divided into three parts: Part 1 looks at the World Trade Organization's legal framework for state trading enterprises, taking on such issues as monopolies and state enterprises, the WTO Antidumping Agreement and the economies in transition, and relationship of state trading and the Government Purchasing Act. Part 2 deals with regional experiences in state trading (for the EC, United States, Canada, Japan, China, and Russia). Part 3 examines conceptual issues such as auctions as a trade policy instrument and rule-making alternatives for entities with exclusive rights. The conclusion synthesizes the foregoing chapters in discussing the reach of modern international trade law. Contributors are Frederick Abbott, Ichiro Araki, Christian Bach, Jacques H. J. Bourgeois, Thomas Cottier, William J. Davey, Vladimir Dbrentsov, Toni Haniotis, Bernard M. Hoekman, Gary Horlick, Henrik Horn, Robert Howse, Patrick Low, Will Martin, Mitsuo Matsushita, Petros Mavroidis, Aaditya Mattoo, Patrick Messerlin, Constantine Michalopoulos, Kristin Heim Mowry, Stilpon Nestor, Damien Neven, N. David Palmeter, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, André Sapir, Diane P. Wood, and Werner Zdouc. Petros Mavroidis is Professor of Law, University of Neuchatel. Thomas Cottier is Professor of Law, Institute of European and International Economic Law, University of Bern Law School.





Strategic Arena Switching in International Trade Negotiations

Author : Joachim Becker

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 285 pages

File Size : 10,63 MB

Release : 2017-11-28

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1351148508

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Since the 1970s global rule-making with respect to international trade has increased in importance. Political and academic attention has been focused either on global institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO and UN organisations, or on regional blocs like the EU or NAFTA. As negotiations take place in different international arenas, these arenas themselves take on added strategic significance, with agendas pursued and switched from one arena to another, should one route be blocked. While dominant actors have sought to use arena switching to their advantage, subordinate actors have begun to reactivate alternative arenas of negotiation in order to pursue their different agendas. This book employs a multi-level and multi-arena perspective to analyze global rule-making in international trade. It explains why actors - both state and non-state actors - prefer particular arenas. It also addresses the question of which institutional designs serve the aims of specific groups best and how the rules of the different arenas are related.



Globalization And International Trade Policies

Author : Robert M Stern

Publisher : World Scientific

Page : 794 pages

File Size : 36,38 MB

Release : 2009-09-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9814477125

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This book brings together a collection of papers that Robert M Stern and his co-authors have written in recent years. The collection addresses a variety of issues pertinent to the global trading system. One group of papers deals with globalization in terms of what the public needs to know about this phenomenon and the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), whether some countries may be hurt by globalization, how global market integration relates to national sovereignty, and how and whether considerations of fairness are and should be dealt with in the global trading system and WTO negotiations. A second group of papers consists of analytical and computational modeling studies of multilateral, regional, and bilateral trading arrangements and negotiations from a global and national perspective for the United States and other major trading countries. The remaining papers include an empirical analysis of barriers to international services transactions and the consequences of liberalization, and issues of international trade and labor standards.



Negotiating a Preferential Trading Agreement

Author : S. K. Jayasuriya

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 283 pages

File Size : 20,52 MB

Release : 2009-01-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1848449232

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Draws on both theory and evaluations of several major Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) to discuss the constraints to achieving liberalisation in PTAs and key problems facing negotiators trying to achieve the best outcomes within given political economy constraints, such as choice of rules of origin and dispute settlement procedures.



The World Trading System

Author : John Howard Jackson

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 464 pages

File Size : 36,87 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780262600279

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Since the first edition of The World Trading System was published in 1989, the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations has been completed, and most governments have ratified and are in the process of implementing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). In the Uruguay Round, more than 120 nations negotiated for over eight years, to produce a document of some 26,000 pages. This new edition of The World Trading System takes account of these and other developments. Like the first edition, however, its treatment of topical issues is grounded in the fundamental legal, constitutional, institutional, and political realities that mold trade policy. Thus the book continues to serve as an introduction to the study of trade law and policy. Two basic premises of The World Trading System are that economic concerns are central to foreign affairs, and that national economies are growing more interdependent. The author presents the economic principles of international trade policy and then examines how they operate under real- world constraints. In particular, he examines the extremely elaborate system of rules that governs international economic relations. Until now, the bulk of international trade policy has addressed trade in goods; issues inadequately addressed by policy include trade in services, intellectual property rights, certain investment measures, and agriculture. The author highlights the tension between legal rules, designed to create predictability and stability, and the governments need to make exceptions to solve short-term problems. He also looks at weaknesses of international trade policy, especially as it applies to developing countries and economies in transition. He concludes with a look at issues that will shape international trade policy well into the twenty-first century.



Relations with State Trading Nations

Author : International Chamber of Commerce. United States Council. Committee on Private and State Production and Trading

Publisher :

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 29,23 MB

Release : 1948

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Small States in the Multilateral Trading System

Author : Laura Gosset

Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat

Page : 169 pages

File Size : 41,98 MB

Release : 2015-11-20

Category : Law

ISBN : 184929139X

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Developing countries, including as small states and least developed countries (LDCs), continue to face significant challenges within the global trading system. Action is required to allow them to overcome disadvantages and achieve sustainable levels of income from trade. This study provides a fresh perspective on how measures can be taken to enhance the participation of small states, many of which are Commonwealth countries, in the multilateral trading system. It contributes to the ongoing general debate about reforming the World Trade Organization and global trade governance.