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The Dispute Settlement Reports of the World Trade Organization (WTO) include Panel and Appellate Body reports, as well as arbitration awards, in disputes concerning the rights and obligations of WTO Members under the provisions of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization. These are the only authorized paginated reports in English. As such, they are an essential addition to the library of every practising and academic trade lawyer, and will be widely consulted by students taking courses in international economic or trade law. The WTO authorized printed DSR volumes commenced publication with DSR, 1996:I. Publication of the Cambridge printed edition follows the WTO website publication of all new reports, which will continue in the three working languages of English, French and Spanish. Once a report has been released on the WTO website it will be published in the next Cambridge printed volume. ... Read more

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The Dispute Settlement Reports of the World Trade Organization (WTO) include Panel and Appellate Body reports, as well as arbitration awards, in disputes concerning the rights and obligations of WTO members under the provisions of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization. These are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. An essential addition to the library of all practising and academic trade lawyers, and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2003: IV reports on anti-dumping duties on imports of cotton-type bed linen from India (EC), and contains a cumulative index of published disputes. ... Read more

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This publication is the first volume in the official collection of legal documents adopted by the World Trade Organization. It contains the protocols, decisions and reports adopted in 1995, as well as selected documents related to the Uruguay Round negotiations. ... Read more

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The Dispute Settlement Reports of the World Trade Organization (WTO) include Panel and Appellate Body reports, as well as arbitration awards, in disputes concerning the rights and obligations of WTO members. ... Read more

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This is the official WTO certified text of the Protocol Accession negotiated by Saudi Arabia to become a member of the WTO. The document provides all the terms, commitments and conditions accepted by Saudi Arabia for membership in the WTO. The Protocol includes detailed schedules on market access conditions to Saudi Arabia for trade in both Goods and Services. This book is intended for trade specialists and for business users who need to know the market access conditions granted by Saudi Arabia for trade in every category of Goods and Services. ... Read more

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The Dispute Settlement Reports of the World Trade Organization (WTO) include Panel and Appellate Body reports, as well as arbitration awards, in disputes concerning the rights and obligations of WTO members under the provisions of the Marrakesh Agreement. These are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. An essential addition to the library of all practising and academic trade lawyers, and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. Volume XI reports on export financing programme for aircraft (Brazil), and measures treating export restraints as subsidies (United States). ... Read more

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This second edition of C.F. Amerasinghe's successful book has been revised to include a new chapter on judicial organs of international organizations, as well as a considerably developed chapter on dispute settlement. Amerasinghe examines the local remedies rule in terms of both historical and modern international law. He considers customary international law as well as the application of the rule to, among others, human rights protection and international organizations. ... Read more

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What is the World Trade Organization? Has it become a type of a "constitution"? Will it curb international trade discrimination and open up markets for developing countries, or will it prevent States from choosing the economic systems they want? This book untangles debates about constitutionalization and argues that the WTO is not, and should not, be described as a constitution by the standards of any conventional definition, or by the lights of any constitution to which we ought to aspire.Under current models, a constitutionalized WTO may curtail the ability of states to decide matters of national economic interest. The risk is an emphasis upon economic goals and free trade theory over other social values. Instead, Cass argues that what is needed, is a constitutionalized WTO which considers the economic development needs of States.Trading democracy, and not trading constitutionalization, is the biggest challenge facing the WTO. ... Read more

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The book discusses the regulatory framework of contingent protection in the World Trade Organization - antidumping, countervailing duties, and safeguards - as well as an economic analysis of these instruments. The book's various chapters illuminate the basic functioning of all three. ... Read more

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The WTO intellectual property and services agreements (TRIPs and GATS) form the global legal framework in which governments now regulate trade in knowledge. This second edition analyses the provisions of the agreements and examines closely the thirteen years of implementation and revision. Gathering together the interpretations placed on the agreements by the WTO dispute settlement bodies, it reports on the initiatives taken by the members both to liberalise trade in knowledge and to shape international business regulation. Drawing on this, Christopher Arup assesses the future of the WTO as a global law-making institution. Three expanded case studies (legal services, genetic codes/essential medicines, and on-line media) illustrate the impact of the agreements and highlight the challenges faced by the WTO in reconciling free trade with social regulation. ... Read more

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The World Trade Organization will become the overall andcomprehensive multilateral framework for regulating internationaltrade and trade-related matters. Notwithstanding major achievementsmade during eight years of negotiations, there will be new challengesrequiring rules and regulations in areas not yet adequately covered.Economists, lawyers and authors from trade unions and privatecompanies approach the issues of regionalism, labour standards andenvironmental protection from different angles and from theNorth--South perspective. The first challenge is to bring abouta `level playing field'; this book tackles key questions such as thetypesof standards that are required, the roles of institutions andtheenforcement mechanisms with regard to trade related investmentmeasures, intellectual property rights, labour and environmentalconditions. The second challenge is the new wave of regionalpreferential trade systems: this book deals with the WTO compatibilityof these far-reaching integration schemes and the lessons for globalliberalisation that might be learned from these regional experiments.This book is an important and timely resource for those who areinterested and involved in the shaping of the new World TradeOrganization. ... Read more

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This volume examines the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. It explains the amount of sovereignty that nations lose by joining the World Trade Organization and gains that ensure from the resulting cooperation. The policy aspects of the interface between national regulatory interventions and international disciplines are explored. ... Read more

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The World Trade Organisation plays the primary role in regulating international trade in goods, services and intellectual property. Traditionally, international trade law and regulation has been analysed primarily from the trade-in-goods perspective. Services are becoming an important competence for the WTO. The institutional, legal and regulatory influence of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) on domestic economic policymaking is attracting increasing attention in the academic and policymaking literature. The growing importance of services trade to the global economy makes the application of the GATS to trade in services an important concern of international economic policy. The GATS contains important innovations that build on the former GATT and existing WTO/GATT trade regime for goods.This book fills a void in the academic and policymaking literature by examining how the GATS governs international trade in services and its growing impact on the regulatory practice of WTO member states.It offers a unique discussion of the major issues confronting WTO member states by analysing the GATS and related international trade issues from a variety of perspectives that include law, political economy, regulation, and business. Moreover, the role of the WTO in promoting liberalised trade and economic development has come under serious strain because of the breakdown of the Doha Development Round negotiations. The book analyses the issues in the Doha services debate with some suggested policy approaches that might help build a more durable GATS framework. The book is a welcomed addition to the WTO literature and will serve as a point of reference for academics, policymakers and practitioners. ... Read more

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Identifying the relevant multilateral institutions and multinational organisations involved in particular aspects of international finance and trade often proves to be difficult. This book makes that process easy while providing valuable descriptions of and insights into those institutions and organisations.Chapter topics examine multilateral institutions and organisations: generally and their major umbrella organisation -- the United Nations; concerned with national currencies, national solvency, financial institutions and securities exchange, and international financial transactions and securities; promoting economic development; regulating international trade; dealing with international product and performance standards, standardised legal commercial rules, and common usages and documents through international conventions and treaties, the harmonisation of national commercial laws, and accepted sectoral practices; overseeing international transportation and communications; protecting international intellectual property rights; managing international environmental, commodities, and natural resources matters; resolving international disputes; and involved with other international finance and trade matters. ... Read more