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    The World Trade Organization : law, practice, and policy / Mitsuo Matsushita, Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Petros C. Mavroidis, Michael Hahn.

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    • Title:The World Trade Organization : law, practice, and policy / Mitsuo Matsushita, Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Petros C. Mavroidis, Michael Hahn.
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    • Author/Creator:Matsushita, Mitsuo, 1933- author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Schoenbaum, Thomas J., author.
      Mavroidis, Petros C., author.
      Hahn, Michael J., author.
    • Published/Created:Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
      ©2015

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:World Trade Organization.
      General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization)
      Tariff--Law and legislation.
      Foreign trade regulation.
    • Edition:Third edition.
    • Description:xci, 849 pages ; 26 cm
    • Series:Oxford international law library.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780199571857
      0199571856
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Bretton Woods and the failure of the International Trade Organization
      2. GATT becomes an international organization
      3. summary of GATT obligations
      4. historical context of the GATT
      5. need for an international organization concerned with trade
      6. GATT tariff negotiating rounds
      7. creation of the WTO
      8. WTO: functions and structure
      9. Ongoing work and activities
      10. Principal accomplishments of the GATT/WTO
      11. Major challenges confronting the WTO
      12. Doha Development Agenda
      13. 'Bali Package'
      14. future of the WTO
      1. Introduction
      2. European Union
      3. Japan
      4. United States
      5. Conclusion
      1. Introduction
      2. Sources of law applicable in WTO adjudication
      3. Interpretative elements (of the WTO sources of law)
      4. 'self-contained regime' problem
      5. Concluding remarks
      1. Introduction
      2. Dispute settlement in the GATT
      3. WTO dispute settlement
      1. Overview: implementing the DSB's 'recommendations and rulings'
      2. Remedies in cases of successful non-violation and situation complaints
      3. starting point: rulings and recommendations based on recommendations and suggestions pursuant to DSU Article 19
      4. Lex specialis remedies
      5. Prompt compliance and the reasonable period of time (RPT)
      6. Compliance review pursuant to DSU Article 21.5
      7. Enforcement measures pursuant to DSU Article 22
      8. Compliance following the adoption of countermeasures
      9. sequencing issue: DSU Article 21.5 vs 22.2
      10. Conclusions
      1. most favoured nation obligation as a manifestation of the principle of non-discrimination
      2. GATT Article I
      3. MFN in the GATS: preliminary remarks
      4. Exceptions to MFN
      5. Conclusions
      1. National treatment-a recurring theme in all WTO agreements
      2. National treatment pursuant to GATT Article III
      3. Article III:2-internal taxation
      4. Article III:4-internal laws and regulations
      5. Application of Article III to state-trading monopolies
      6. Application of Article III national treatment obligations to sub-national units of WTO members
      7. relationship between GATT Article III and Article XI
      8. Exceptions to the national treatment principle
      1. Introduction
      2. Tariffs and customs rules
      3. Non-tariff barriers I: customs-related measures
      4. Non-tariff barriers II: quantitative restrictions
      5. Non-tariff barriers III: other measures restricting market access
      1. Introduction
      2. Historical context
      3. Non-trade concerns in agricultural trade ('multifunctionality')
      4. Agreement on Agriculture: an overview
      5. Agreement on Agriculture's market access provisions
      6. Agreement on Agriculture's domestic support provisions
      7. Agreement on Agriculture's export competition provisions
      8. Review and remedies
      9. Special treatment of developing countries
      10. changing interests in agriculture and the Doha Round negotiations
      1. power of the purse
      2. scope of the SCM Agreement: specific subsidies
      3. Prohibited subsidies ('red light subsidies')
      4. Actionable subsidies ('yellow light subsidies')
      5. Counteracting subsidies: the multilateral track
      6. Counteracting subsidies: countervailing duties as a unilateral option
      7. Special and differential treatment
      8. Institutional set-up
      1. What is dumping?
      2. regulation of antidumping duties
      3. Criminal penalties and private remedies
      4. Conclusions
      1. Introduction
      2. legal and policy framework for safeguards in the GATT/WTO regime
      3. GATT Article XIX and the Agreement on Safeguards
      4. Safeguard measures for balance of payment reasons
      5. Safeguard measures in textile and clothing trade
      6. Prohibition on voluntary export restraints
      1. role of the TBT and SPS Agreements
      2. legal relationship between the GATT, TBT, and SPS
      3. TBT Agreement
      4. SPS Agreement
      5. Conclusions
      1. Disciplining preferential trade agreements
      2. negotiating history of GATT Article XXIV
      3. view from the world of economics
      4. test for compliance
      5. PTAs in WTO dispute settlement
      1. Introduction
      2. Cases
      3. WTO Rules on export measures
      4. Export tariffs
      5. Natural resources
      6. Agricultural commodities
      7. Security exceptions
      8. Preferential trade agreements and export restrictions
      9. Conclusions
      1. Introduction to the GATS and trade in services
      2. relationship between the GATT and the GATS
      3. scope of the GATS: liberalization of trade in services
      4. General obligations
      5. Specific commitments
      6. General exceptions
      7. Overview: specific rules for telecommunications and financial services
      8. Conclusions
      1. Introduction
      2. Types of intellectual property rights addressed in the TRIPs Agreement
      3. Overview of the TRIPs Agreement
      4. Institutional arrangements
      5. Provisions relating to developing countries
      6. Public policy criticisms
      7. general principles of the TRIPs Agreement
      8. Minimum substantive standards
      9. Enforcement of intellectual property rights under the TRIPs Agreement
      10. Exhaustion of intellectual property rights
      11. Restrictive business practices
      12. Conclusions
      1. Government Procurement Agreement as a plurilateral agreement
      2. background of the Government Procurement Agreement
      3. 2012 Government Procurement Agreement
      4. Domestic implementation
      5. Dispute settlement in relation to the Government Procurement Agreement
      1. Bifurcating the GATT obligations
      2. Part IV and the Enabling Clause
      3. Enabling Clause in practice: the GSP schemes
      4. Other provisions on special and differential treatment
      5. Institutional provisions
      6. limits of WTO involvement
      1. Introduction
      2. Environmentalist trade demands: a critical analysis
      3. environmental impact of trade
      4. Tuna Dolphin cases: a false start
      5. WTO approach under the GATT 1994
      6. Multilateral and bilateral environmental agreements
      7. Unilateral measures
      8. Energy
      9. Protection of natural resources
      10. Environmental standards and process and production methods
      11. Recycling and packaging
      12. Eco-labelling
      13. export of hazardous substances and wastes
      14. Environmental taxes
      15. Border tax adjustment in support of climate change legislation
      16. Conclusions
      1. Trade and investment in the GATT/WTO: from high hopes to modest steps
      2. Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs)
      3. General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
      4. Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM)
      5. Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs)
      6. Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
      7. Outlook
      1. Introduction
      2. Anti-competitive conduct that adversely affects international trade
      3. Provisions on competition policy in the WTO agreements
      4. Extraterritorial application of domestic competition law
      5. Trade policy/laws and competition policy
      6. Competition policy and international cooperation in the WTO
      7. Concluding remarks.
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