The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Macrory, Patrick F. J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Appleton, Arthur E. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Plummer, Michael G. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Θέματα: Law.; Commercial law.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; International economics.; Public finance.; Law and economics.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; Public Economics.; Commercial Law.; International Economics.; Law and Economics.

With more than eighty chapters, this three-volume work – described by the current Director-General of the World Trade Organization as an "outstanding contribution" to understanding the world trading system – is by far the most comprehensive study yet undertaken of the WTO. The core of the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Background
• An Interpretative History of the Uruguay Round Negotiation
• The Politics of Trade Policy Development—The New Complexity
• The Democratic Roots of the World Trade Organization
• The Legal Framework of the World Trade Organization
• Institutional Framework
• GATT 1994
• The Agreement on Agriculture
• The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
• The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
• The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing
• The Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures
• The Anti-Dumping Agreement
• The Agreement on Customs Valuation
• The Agreement on Preshipment Inspection
• The Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures
• The Agreement on Rules of Origin
• The Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
• Injury Determinations in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations
• The Agreement on Safeguards
• The General Agreement on Trade in Services
• Financial Services
• Telecommunications Services
• The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
• The Agreement on Government Procurement
• The Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft and other Issues Relating to Civil Aircraft in the GATT/WTO System
• Consultations
• The Panel Process
• The Appellate Body: Institutional and Procedural Aspects
• Implementation and Enforcement of Dispute Settlement Decisions
• A Re-Appraisal of Non-Violation Complaints Under the WTO Dispute Settlement Procedures
• Some Thoughts on the Appellate Body
• The Application of Non-WTO Rules of International Law in WTO Dispute Settlement
• The Intervention of Private Entities and States as “Friends of the Court” in WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings
• The WTO Agreement in European Community Law: Status, Effect and Enforcement
• Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries
• The National Security Provision—GATT Article XXI
• Tariff Classification
• Economic, Political, and Regional Issues
• Economic Principles of International Trade
• Computational Analysis of Multilateral Trade Liberalization in the Uruguay Round and Doha Development Round
• Safeguards
• Anti-Dumping and Competition Law
• Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
• Agriculture
• Environmental Issues
• Labor Standards
• Services: The Case of Postal Versus Express Delivery Services
• Regulating Regional Trade Agreements—A Legal Analysis
• The Economies in Transition, The WTO and Regionalism
• Rules of Origin and Rules of Preference and the World Trade Organization: the Challenge to Global Trade Liberalization
• Services in Regional Trading Arrangements
• Rules for Foreign Direct Investment at the WTO: Building on Regional Trade Agreements
• Regional Trading Arrangements and Developing Countries
• LDCs in the Multilateral Trading System
• Textiles and Developing Countries
• The Trips Agreement and Developing Countries
• Trade-Related Technical Cooperation and Capacity Building
• Trade and Electronic Commerce
• Trade and Competition Policy
• Trade and the Environment
• Trade and Labor I
• Trade and Labor II
• Trade and Human Rights I
• Trade and Human Rights II
• Trade and Gender
• Trade and Culture
• Country Reports
• Argentina
• Canada
• China
• Colombia
• Egypt
• The European Union
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Korea
• Mexico
• Mongolia
• New Zealand
• Russia
• Singapore
• South Africa
• The United States
• Concluding Thoughts—The Way Forward
• Pursuing Global Free Trade: a Small Open Economy Perspective
• Global Integration: Currents and Counter-Currents.