Guide to the WTO and GATT [electronic resource] : Economics, Law and Politics /
Koul, Autar Krishen.author.
This book analyzes how today's system of international trade law and international economic relations has evolved over the last six decades. Focusing on the major innovations that came with the inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO) with its various agreements in 1994, it also provides in-depth commentary on the intense debate over important matters that remain unsettled. Topics covered include the WTO dispute settlement mechanism; the General Agreement on Trade in Services (OATS); the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS); intellectual property rights – the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS); areas still covered by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1947; the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) concept; special provisions relating to agriculture and textiles; sanitary and phytosanitary measures; technical barriers to trade; pre-shipment inspection; and import licensing procedures. The book would be an excellent resource for scholars as well as practitioners working in the field of international arbitration and trade laws.
Chapter 1. World Trade Organisation: Its Birth and Background -- Chapter 2. World Trade Organisation (WTO): The Structural Dimensions -- Chapter 3. WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanisms -- Chapter 4. Legal Framework of GATT, 1994 -- Chapter 5. Schedules of Concessions (Article II) -- Chapter 6. National Treatment on Internal Taxation and Regulation (Art. III) -- Chapter 7. Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of GATT, 1994 (Anti-Dumping Agreement) -- Chapter 8. Agreement on the Implementation of Article VII of GATT 1994 (Customs Valuation Agreement) -- Chapter 9. WTO Agreement on Rules of Origin, 1994 -- Chapter 10. Publication and Administration of Trade Regulations (Art. X) -- Chapter 11. WTO Ninth Ministerial Conference and Trade Facilitation Agreement, 2013 -- Chapter 12. General Elimination of Quantitative and Other Restrictions -- Chapter 13. Subsidies (Article XVI) -- Chapter 14. Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, 1994 (SCM CODE) -- Chapter 15. State Trading Enterprises (Article XVII) -- Chapter 16. Governmental Assistance to Economic Development (Article XVIII) -- Chapter 17. Emergency Action on Imports of Particular Products (Art. XIX) -- Chapter 18. WTO Agreement on Safeguards 1994 -- Chapter 19. General Exceptions (Art. XX) -- Chapter 19. Consultations (Article XXII), Nullification and Impairment of Benefits (Article XXIII) -- Chapter 20. Territorial Application, Frontier Traffic, Customs Unions and Free Trade Areas (Article XXIV) -- Chapter 21. Territorial Application, Frontier Traffic, Customs Unions and Free Trade Areas (Article XXIV) -- Chapter 22. Joint Action by the Contracting Parties (Article XXV) -- Chapter 23. Trade and Development (Articles XXXVI-XXXVIII) -- Chapter 24. WTO Agreement on Agriculture -- Chapter 25. WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing -- Chapter 26. WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) -- Chapter 27. WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) -- Chapter 28. WTO Agreement on Pre-Shipment Inspection -- Chapter 29. WTO Agreement on Import-Licensing Procedures -- Chapter 30. WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement) -- Chapter 31. WTO General Agreement on Trade in Service (GATS) -- Chapter 32. WTO, Trade and Investment -- Chapter 33. WTO and Competition Policy -- Chapter 34. WTO and Labour Standards -- Chapter 35. WTO, International Trade and Human Rights -- Chapter 36. Trade and Environmental Issues in the WTO -- Chapter 37. Developing Countries in the GATT/WTO.
This book analyzes how today's system of international trade law and international economic relations has evolved over the last six decades. Focusing on the major innovations that came with the inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO) with its various agreements in 1994, it also provides in-depth commentary on the intense debate over important matters that remain unsettled. Topics covered include the WTO dispute settlement mechanism; the General Agreement on Trade in Services (OATS); the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS); intellectual property rights – the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS); areas still covered by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1947; the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) concept; special provisions relating to agriculture and textiles; sanitary and phytosanitary measures; technical barriers to trade; pre-shipment inspection; and import licensing procedures. The book would be an excellent resource for scholars as well as practitioners working in the field of international arbitration and trade laws.
Mediation.
Dispute resolution (Law).
Conflict management.
Economic policy.
Globalization.
International Economic Law, Trade Law.
Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration.
Development Policy.
Globalization.