This study is part of The American Law Institute (ALI) project Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law. The … project aims to analyze the central instrument in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement for the regulation of trade in … goods – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT). The present study is one of two background studies for this …

) in NT disputes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of this burden for trade liberalization and for the …

The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defense in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against …. Furthermore, it requires a high degree of economic sophistication on behalf of trade negotiators in order for this beneficial …

trade. Utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in specialized production and careers in predation. Three types of …

industries. It addresses two questions. Has the free trade agreement between the EC and EFTA reinforced the disciplinary effect … competition of the free trade agreement, even though the disciplinary effect of imports originating from the less developed …

trade. Utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in specialized production and careers in predation. Three types of … security. Since changes in security have terms of trade effects, some producers may be hurt by enhanced security. We show cases …