The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis / Edition 1

by International Trade Law Center, Arthur E. Appleton, Michael G. Plummer

Overview

The editors have succeeded in bringing together an excellent mix of leading scholars and practitioners.

No book on the WTO has had this wide a scope before or covered the legal framework, economic and political issues, current and would-be countries and a outlook to the future like these three volumes do.

3000 pages, 80 chapters in 3 volumes cover a very interdiscplinary field that touches upon law, economics and politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387226859
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	05/26/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	3117
Sales rank:	901,337
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 10.98(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Table of Cases.- Foreword.- Introduction .- An Interpretative History of the Uruguay Round Negotiation.- The Politics of Trade Policy Development:The New Complexity.- The Democratic Roots of the Trade Organization.- Institutional Framework.- GATT 1994.- The Agreement on Agriculture.- The Agreement on the Application 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 Pre-Shipment Inspection.- The Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures.- The Agreement on Rules of Origin.- The Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.- Injury Determinations in Anti-Dumping 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.- Panel Proceedings.- Appellate Body Proceedings.- Implementation and Enforcement of the WTO Agreements .- Non-Violation Revisited.- 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.- National Security.- Tariff Classification.- 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 – Postal versus Express Delivery Services.- Regional Trade Arrangements —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.- Least Developed Countries 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 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.- Argentina.- Canada.- China .- Colombia.- Egypt.- The European Union.- Indonesia.- Japan.- Korea.- Mexico.- Mongolia .- New Zealand.- Russia.- Singapore.- South Africa.- United States.- Pursuing Global Free Trade: A Small Open Economy Perspective.- Global Integration – Currents and Countertrends.- APPENDIX - WTO MINISTERIAL DECLARATIONS – Singapore, Geneva, Doha, and Cancun.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"The legal treatment is comprehensive (to say the least)"

"The contributors overall do an admirable job of weaving the WTO panel and Appellate Body cases into the analysis of the various regimes covered".

"A major volume of work on the WTO and probably the larges single-published reference for the WTO."

"Excellent value for the researcher and the instructor"

"A very large but also highly detailed presentation of the multilateral system at the WTO."

"Will certainly deserve a position as a classic reference on international economy in the WTO."

(Legal Issues of Economic Intergation, 2006)

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