"International Trade is multidisciplinary with a large variety of stakeholders. This book, a chapter-by-chapter assessment of the CPTPP (earlier the TPP), follows such reality. By assessing and digesting each CPTPP chapter, the book focuses on the practical implications of this modern free trade...

"Technical regulations and standards have existed since antiquity. They are the invisible gears that shape the world we live in. "They shape not only the physical world around us, but our social lives and even our very selves". All the products that are traded and available at stores comply with...

In recent years, the world trading system has been confronted by a range of new and developing challenges: the risk of climate change, the instability of the digital economy, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 and the threat of future pandemics, to name but a few. In this book, veteran trade...

This volume of contributions from some of the world's best-known international trade economists explores and analyzes the various aspects of commercial policy in a way that standard texts in international economics do not.

Table of cases -- Table of legislation, treaties, conventions and other international instruments -- 1. General introduction -- PART I. MAPPING THE GROWTH OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION -- 2. ASEAN as an important investment destination -- 3. Emergence...

The World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) sets out a framework and rules for the liberalization of international trade in services. Paragraph 2(a) of the GATS Annex on Financial Services is generally known as the Prudential Carve-Out (PCO). Notwithstanding GATS...

Indigenous diversities in international investment and trade / John Borrows -- Indigenous historic trade in the western hemisphere / Angelique EagleWoman (Wambdi A. Was'teWinyan) -- Indigenous peoples of Mexico at the crossroads : the human cost of continental trade / James Hopkins --...