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 …

role of NT in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) from the perspective of economic theory. Having established …, here we focus on the understanding of the key terms implementing the purpose of NT by GATT and World Trade Organization …

The primary objective of most trade agreements is to restrain members' use of trade policies for protectionist purposes … trade. It requires that imported products be treated as favorably by domestic policy as similar, indigenous products. This …