Full Description
The rules and regulations governing international trade have grown at an exponential rate in the years since the Uruguay Round agreements established the WTO in 1995. These agreements continue to act as the multilateral foundation of the body of law, which is being expanded by its own committees and in new arrangements. As the international trade law system grows, it comes under increasing scrutiny from scholars, government officials, and trade law practitioners, it raises questions about the overlap with other international legal, political, and economic regimes.
This Handbook considers the system of international trade law and what it means for States, for economic systems, for other international regimes, for civil society, and for human welfare. The book opens by focusing on the regulation of international trade, considering the history, economics, and sources of international trade law, as well as the possibilities for the future. It considers the intersection of international trade law with States, the economic and institutional context of the world trading system, the framework of its substantive law, and the balance of trade objectives versus ethical responsibilities. The book concludes by offering analysis of new trade law developments in the agricultural, digital, and financial sectors, as well as outlining the settlement of trade law disputes both in the WTO and bilateral/regional trade agreements.
The second edition broadens the scope of analysis beyond the WTO, analysing regional trade agreements and preferential trade arrangements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and Canada-EU Trade Agreement. The new edition also considers developments within the WTO such as in the area of agricultural export subsidies, and the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
Contents
1: The Editors: Introduction
Part I: The Regulation of International Trade
2: Donald McRae: The Development of the Regulation of International Trade: the Past and the Future
3: Kamal Saggi and Simon Schropp: The Regulation of International Trade: An Economic Perspective
4: Matthew Kennedy: The Sources of International Law
5: James Flett and Mislav Mataija: International Trade Law Institutions
6: James Crawford and Freya Baetens: The Influence of International Trade Law on International Law
7: Manfred Elsig: The Regulation of International Trade and (Democratic) Legitimacy
Part II: Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements
8: Robert Brookfield and Lori Di Pierdomenico: North American Trade: NAFTA and US-caused Global Trade Tensions
9: Yuka Fukunaga and Pasha L. Hsieh: Pacific Trade
10: Sylvie Tabet and Colin M. Brown: Trans-Atlantic Trade; the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union and its Member States
11: Holger P. Hestermeyer: European Trade
12: Jorge Luis Changanaquí Miranda and John Ramiro Cusipuma Frisancho: International Trade Policy in Latin America (Pacific Alliance - MERCOSUR)
13: Henry Gao: China, Trade, and Investment Liberalization
14: Marina Trunk-Fedorova: Eurasian Economic Union, Trade, and Investment Liberalization
15: Kholofelo Kugler and Mulualem Getachew Adgeh: Africa, Trade, and Investment Liberalization
Part III: Substantive Law
16: Katherine Connolly and Nicolas Lockhart: An Introduction to Core Principles of International Trade Law
17: Ricardo Ramírez-Hernández: Trade in Goods
18: Chantal Ononaiwu: Trade in Services
19: Irene Calboli: Promotion and Protection of Intellectual Property
20: Fiona Smith: Trade in Agriculture
21: Hugo Perezcano Díaz: Trade Remedies in International Trade
Part IV: Balancing Trade and Non-Trade Objectives
22: Jan Yves Remy and Alicia Nicholls: Development, Aid, and Preferential Systems
23: Marcus Gustafsson and Amrita Bahri: Progressive Trade: Labour and Gender
24: Jayashree Watal: Balancing Market and Non-Market Objectives: Access to Medicines
25: Damilola S. Olawuyi: Environment
26: Marsha A. Echols: Food Safety: Balancing SPS Scientific Principles and Article XX(b) Sovereignty
27: Isabelle Van Damme: National Security
28: Mira Burri: Privacy and Data Protection
Part V: International Trade Law Development Beyond the WTO
29: Shin-Yi Peng: Digital Trade
30: Juliana Nam: State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs): a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement Experience in Developing New Disciplines in the New World Order
31: Margaret A. Young: Fisheries
32: Rodney Neufeld: Investment Law's Monstrous Reform
33: Rosa Lastra and Marco Bodellini: Financial Services Law
Part VI: The Settlement of Trade Disputes in the WTO and Bilateral/Regional Trade Agreements
34: David Unterhalter and Erika Schneidereit: Institutions
35: Peter Van den Bossche and Parika Ganeriwal: Interpretation
36: Lorand Bartels: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in the WTO and Free Trade Agreements
37: Geraldo Vidigal: Remedies and Compliance
38: Andreas Sennekamp and Federico Ortino: Procedural and Evidentiary Issues
39: Katherine Connolly and Todd Friedbacher: Stakeholders in International Trade Law Dispute Settlement
40: Amy Porges: Alternative Dispute Settlement in the GATT and WTO
Part VII: Conclusion
41: Daniel Bethlehem: Concluding Chapter
