Download or read book A Measurement of Aggregate Trade Restrictions and Their Economic Effects written by Julia Estefania-Flores and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We develop a new Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR) using data from the IMF’s Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. MATR is an empirical measure of how restrictive official government policy is towards the international flow of goods and services. MATR is simple, ad hoc, plausible, quantitative, easily updated, based solely on policy-relevant measures of trade policy, and covers an unbalanced sample of up to 157 countries annually between 1949 and 2019. MATR is strongly correlated with, but more comprehensive than, existing measures of openness and trade policy existing measures. We use MATR to show that trade restrictions are harmful for the economy and lead to significant contractions in output.
Download or read book Environment and Trade written by Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International trade rules have significant impacts on environmental law and policy, at the domestic, regional and global levels. At the World Trade Organization (WTO), dispute settlement tribunals are increasingly called to decide on environment- and health-related questions. Can governments treat products differently based on environmental considerations? Can they block the import of highly carcinogenic asbestos-containing products or genetically modified crops? Does the WTO allow governments to protect dolphins or endangered sea turtles through the use of import restrictions on certain products? How can civil society participate in WTO dispute settlement? This Guide, authored by five world leaders on international environmental and trade law at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), is an accessible, comprehensive, one-of-a-kind compendium of environment and trade jurisprudence under the WTO. Providing an overview for both experts and non-experts of the major themes relevant to environment and trade, it also analyses how WTO tribunals have approached these themes in concrete disputes and provides selected excerpts of the most significant cases.
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Trade Policy Analysis written by Marc Bacchetta and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade flows and trade policies need to be properly quantified to describe, compare, or follow the evolution of policies between sectors or countries or over time. This is essential to ensure that policy choices are made with an appropriate knowledge of the real conditions. This practical guide introduces the main techniques of trade and trade policy data analysis. It shows how to develop the main indexes used to analyze trade flows, tariff structures, and non-tariff measures. It presents the databases needed to construct these indexes as well as the challenges faced in collecting and processing these data, such as measurement errors or aggregation bias. Written by experts with practical experience in the field, A Practical Guide to Trade Policy Analysis has been developed to contribute to enhance developing countries' capacity to analyze and implement trade policy. It offers a hands-on introduction on how to estimate the distributional effects of trade policies on welfare, in particular on inequality and poverty. The guide is aimed at government experts engaged in trade negotiations, as well as students and researchers involved in trade-related study or research. An accompanying DVD contains data sets and program command files required for the exercises. Copublished by the WTO and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Download or read book China in the International Economic Order written by Lisa Toohey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines China's approaches to international trade law, investment law, financial law, competition law, and intellectual property.
Download or read book Dispute Settlement Reports 2020 Volume 4 Pages 1523 to 2038 written by World Trade Organization and published by World Trade Organization Dispu. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases in 2020.
Download or read book Dispute Settlement Reports 2015 Volume 4 Pages 1723 2456 written by World Trade Organization and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2015: Volume 4 reports on United States - Certain Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) Requirements (Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by Canada and Mexico) (WT/DS384, WT/DS386).
Download or read book The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization written by Peter Van den Bossche and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 1125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated edition of Van den Bossche and Zdouc's market-leading textbook is required reading for World Trade Organization law students and practitioners.
Download or read book Dispute Settlement Reports 2017 Volume 8 Pages 3767 to 4372 written by World Trade Organization and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dispute Settlement Reports are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2017: Volume 8 reports on Indonesia - Measures Concerning the Importation of Chicken Meat and Chicken Products (WT/DS484), United States - Measures Concerning the Importation, Marketing and Sale of Tuna and Tuna Products (WT/DS381/ARB) and United States - Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Measures on Large Residential Washers from Korea (WT/DS464/RPT).
Download or read book Screening Foreign Direct Investment in the EU written by Jens Velten and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from third countries—a desirable form of investment to boost the EU’s economy or a threat to important EU and Member State interests that must be mitigated via FDI screening mechanisms? FDI screening is a complex, controversial and highly topical subject at the intersection of law, politics and economics. This book analyzes the political rationale behind FDI screening in the EU, reveals the legal limitations of current FDI screening mechanisms based on security and public order, and identifies legislative options for broader screening mechanisms in accordance with EU and international economic law. In particular, the book identifies the four main concerns in the EU regarding FDI from third countries: distortive competition effects; the lack of reciprocity on FDI treatment between the EU and the investor’s home country; objectives of the investor or their home country that may be detrimental to EU interests; and safety of private information. On this basis, the book analyzes the Screening Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/452) and its newly introduced screening ground “security or public order” and asks whether this and other similar screening grounds based on the notions of security, public order and public policy can address these concerns with regard to foreign investors. Based on an analysis of WTO law and EU primary law, it argues that they cannot. Thus, the question arises: Do the EU and Member States have the flexibility to adopt broader FDI screening mechanisms? To answer this question, the book examines the freedoms of capital movement and establishment in EU primary law, as well as various sources of international economic law such as, first and foremost, the WTO’s General Agreement on Trade in Services, but also other bi- and plurilateral trade and investment treaties, including the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment. In closing, the book identifies various legislative options for broader FDI screening mechanisms—and their shortcomings.
Download or read book Dispute Settlement Reports 2019 Volume 2 Pages 343 to 1098 written by World Trade Organization and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the WTO's authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practising trade lawyers and a useful tool for students and academics worldwide working in the field of international economic or trade law. DSR 2019: Volume II contains the panel report on 'Brazil - Certain Measures Concerning Taxation and Charges' (WT/DS472, WT/DS497).
Download or read book International Economic Law in the Era of Datafication written by Shin-yi Peng and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the challenges of datafication through the lens of international economic law. The target audience includes academics, scholars, graduate students, practitioners and policy-makers in the fields of international trade and economic law, technology law, media and communication studies, political economy and global governance.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration written by Thomas Schultz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook brings together many of the key scholars and leading practitioners in international arbitration, to present and examine cutting-edge knowledge in the field. Innovative in its breadth of coverage, chapter-topics range from the practicalities of how arbitration works, to big picture discussions of the actors involved and the values that underpin it. The book includes critical analysis of some of international arbitrations most controversial aspects, whilst providing a nuanced account overall that allows readers to draw their own informed conclusions. The book is divided into six parts, after an introduction discussing the formation of knowledge in the field. Part I provides an overview of the key legal notions needed to understand how international arbitration technically works, such as the relation between arbitration and law, the power of arbitral tribunals to make decisions, the appointment of arbitrators, and the role of public policy. Part II focuses on key actors in international arbitration, such as arbitrators, parties choosing arbitrators, and civil society. Part III examines the central values at stake in the field, including efficiency, legal certainty, and constitutional ideals. Part IV discusses intellectual paradigms structuring the thinking in and about international arbitration, such as the idea of autonomous transnational legal orders and conflicts of law. Part V presents the empirical evidence we currently have about the operations and effects of both commercial and investment arbitration. Finally, Part VI provides different disciplinary perspectives on international arbitration, including historical, sociological, literary, economic, and psychological accounts.
Download or read book Essentials of WTO Law written by Peter Van den Bossche and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated and reader-friendly overview of WTO law; essential reading for anyone needing an introduction to this complex field.
Download or read book Dispute Settlement Reports 2018 Volume 8 Pages 3923 and 4796 written by World Trade Organization and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dispute Settlement Reports are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2018: Volume 8 reports on Australia - Certain Measures Concerning Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Other Plain Packaging Requirements Applicable to Tobacco Products and Packaging (WT/DS435, WT/DS441, WT/DS458, WT/DS467).
Download or read book Global Regulatory Standards in Environmental and Health Disputes written by Caroline E. Foster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global regulatory standards are emerging from the environmental and health jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, the World Trade Organization, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and investor-state dispute settlement. Most prominent are the three standards of regulatory coherence, due regard for the rights of others, and due diligence in the prevention of harm. These global regulatory standards are a phenomenon of our times, representing a new contribution to the ordering of the relationship between domestic and international law, and a revised conception of sovereignty in an increasingly pluralistic global legal era. However, the legitimacy of the resulting 'standards-enriched' international law remains open to question. International courts and tribunals should not be the only fora in which these standards are elaborated, and many challenges and opportunities lie ahead in the ongoing development of global regulatory standards. Debate over whether regulatory coherence should go beyond reasonableness and rationality requirements and require proportionality stricto sensu in the relationship between regulatory measures and their objectives is central. Due regard, the most novel of the emerging standards, may help protect international law's legitimacy claims in the interim. Meanwhile, all actors should attend to the integration rather than the fragmentation of international law, and to changes in the status of private actors.
Download or read book Dispute Settlement Reports 2000 Volume 4 Pages 1673 2234 written by World Trade Organization and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-12 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2000.
Download or read book Non Economic Objectives in WTO Law written by Stefan Zleptnig and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the complex relationship between economic and non-economic objectives in WTO law. It discusses how non-economic objectives (such as the protection of public morals, life and health, environment, or human rights) can serve as justification for trade-restrictive measures normally prohibited under WTO law. The relevant non-economic grounds of justification are analysed, as well as the substantive and procedural requirements which restrain the use of trade-restrictive measures taken for non-economic purposes. The issues covered by this book also have wider systemic implications for the WTO. Only if the WTO can demonstrate that it is not just concerned about free trade, but respects non-economic objectives as well, is it likely to remain a sustainable and legitimate form of governance.
